ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NOTES AND COMMIE NTS. Ten pounds of good hay will keep a horse alive as long as 501 b of green clover. Vancouver now has elevator storage and handling capacity for 6,000,000 bushels of grain. The dairy farmers in Central Otago have had a good iuii this autumn, and consider it tin.' best autumnal season they have had for years. >. The agriculturists and pastoralists of flic Auckland district are particularlv keen to have the Royal Show located at Auckland next year. The rapid growth of Canadian wheat exports in recent years is indicated by the fact that in October last shipments were made to s>> different countries. A runholder in the Eketahuna district stated that he had averaged 17d for his wool clip for the past 10 years and !<Sd for the last four years. He held his wool during the slump. An Oamaru farmer ascertained this week that, an acre of pinus in si gnus would be worth nearly £SOO in ‘2O years. He has decided to plant several acres this year, and make them an insurance for his children. The effect of the slump was neatly referred to by Mr Justice Alpers in the Supreme Court: “The slump hit the gambler or speculator but passed by the genuine farmer. The man who farmed his land and could hold on to his herd came through all right.”

The Raglan Dairy Co. recently paid out a third and final bonus of one farthing per pound of butterfat. making the pay-out for last season Is 6.37 d per lb of butterfat. The directors held up a large proportion of the output For some time, and were lucky enough to sell at better prices.

Tu conversation with a’n employment agent, a Timaru Herald representative learned that ploughmen had been very scarce, but now that Hie. thrashing mills were completing operations many of the hands, anxious to obtain .a steady position for the winter, had accepted ploughmen’s duties.

With a season such as the past if would he within the bounds of possibility to milk all the year round (says the Waikato Times). The only question is, would the extra cost pay, at the present price of butter-fat? If. as has been stated, the final payment will reach 1 s 71. d farmers will not, have any cause to grumbfe in this district.

Fairly heave losses of hoggets have been recorded on the Poverty Day Hats this season, sonic farm l ers having lost as many as .‘SO per cent., of their hoggets, although the average- losses were mainly experienced much earlier in the season. after the wot spell of weather, and lately very few sheep have died. 'The trouble is mainly attributable to lungwoim, this being prevalent in seasons of a wet nature.

Two large deals in Hereford cattle have taken place in tlie Lawrence district (Centra! Otago), 200 head coming from the Wilden Estate to Mr I*. Anderson, luch Clntha, who is reported to have given £27 per acre for swede turnips for feeding purposes. Allot her draft of 120 head came from the Mount Longer run, consigned to W. Lindsay, Taieri. The whole herd is to he fattened for the Burnside market during the Exhibition period. The price paid was in the region of £l O per head. Says the Gisborne Herald: The statement made recently by a maize grower on the flats to the effect that for the last three years lie had taken LdO an acre from maize, was questioned by Mr A. G. Turnbull, ar well known farmer of Makauri. who said that ho considered it impossible to get that amount from a maize crop. The tanner concerned had placed his expenses in growing the crop at LIU au acre, hut from his experience the cost of production was nearer Ll 5 an acre.