ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NOTES! AND COMMENTS •Lambs liaro tlicir 'apiJcarance in Tiiilmpo district. A few lambs have already made tlioir "appear.anee in the.Ne'' 1-3" mouth district. ■ * Karl v lambs are appealing at Tanriko. Taurariga district— lorn* weeks earlier than last year. Ki- om various accounts the lambing scsou is mu. lar distant in AWangamn and district. The season, should commence early next week. / With ewes averaging between 30s and 37s it would bo an expensive, business to stock a farm m the Wairarapa. at present.—Age. •

Farms in the Kahiatua district are looking well for this time <>i the year. There i s an abundance ot toed ami a good spring is anticipated.

The lambing season in *>outh t aurbury is v|.y early this year, some icing been'seen last week in tains parts of tlm district.

Over 1,000.000! bs more butierfat were produced in North Jnranaki during the season 1024-2 L which closed on June 30, than were producc<lmr. 1023-24.

It has been ],roved beyond any doubt that when clover is grown with wheat it lias a beneficial effect, not only on top following crop, hut also on the present wheat crop.

The object of the plough is to turn the soil and expose a new suriaee to the atmosphere. The winter's frosts disintegrate the clods while from exposure to t-lio* air 110 fcol gathers fresh vitality. i It hu s been proved in the Dominion that macrocarpa posts last, longer m the ground than either uiiatai or loti,n, It is evident that many do „ot realise the value of this= ithmher lor fencing. The findings of scientists ill the laboratory are of the utino# value, hut until Llicv have been ptit' to a thoiough test under field conditions they cannot be accepted as final and decisive, , . .. V - Quito a, number of 1 armors in different part's of the North Taranaki district who have been milking -fair!} largo herds are going out,of dairying lor a. season mf two and are stocking up with sheep.

The time will never ( arrive when wo can afford to abandon 'agricultural experiments, but the time Ims < 1 r tainly arrived when we should think seriously about commenting- expo mental work in real earnest.

The very serious outbreak of swum fever in the eastern area of T-ast Lothian, which alfected r a : herd of oX) anim -ls, of which -300 had to he slaughtered, is now bolyved to he stamped out., says a London report.

.During the recent- Danish transport workers’ 0 strike, volunteer labor enabled live boats to leave Copenhagen and two boats from ESbjerg carrying '20,000 tons of butter, bacon, and eggs lor Login iid.

The Wanganui seed market, which has been very ouiet during the pnst few months, should show signs o activity in a- few weeks’ time. Already there, have been a lew in-

quiries for oats For -spring sowing

The Lu'<e County Tress s'atc.s that Mr W. IT. Thompson, ol Crown Lurance, is the “‘barely king” of the Wakatipu district this season, he mixing threshed out 032 sacks of mi e\. the next best return recorded being 010 sacks.

.Russia's wheat production hi 191.2, leaving out Poland and I'inland, was 07.200.000 metrical tons; it had fallen to 2o.,tl8,00() tons .n the twelve- month from Octoboi, to September, 1923; while the preduetion for the twelve monihs ended September, 1924, was 02,0-70,000 ton.-, or less than half the pre-war Figure.

A number of factories in N<>rth Taranaki have sold their AugustDeceinber make of butter at 9 l-Bd. and one small Fakory has effected a sale of its output For this period at !),fd. These prices are. Very satisfactory and- will .represent a pay-out of approximately Is 9d ,per ]!>, butkrfat for the spring make.

Stock in Otago are weathering the adverse climatic conditions well, and flic fact that the spring is not many weeks elf, with stocks (d teed lasting well on most farms,"is doubly reassuring, but it is the laft few weeks, before the. grass copies vvliicb trios out the provision far carrying stock through. All branches or 'farm:ug will welcome an early spring-

The indication:

i' point to a much

larger area Ueing sown in wheat in Otago liiau. lias beeA the ease tor the last lew years. Ihcre Ims boon a strong demand for seed wheat, and according to the way tanners aio talking they consider that wish a. fixed minimum price ior wheat they will he safer in sowing this than oats The wheat growing industry has also been, affected io some extent by the drop in wool, on which tanriors arcnow inclined to bank as in tbo past season or two.