ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 321, 23 July 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

A fo\v early lambs have maJo tllcil appearance at; Muuri.cevillo.

AL a recent .sale in England ( JL’ Fricsiaiis averaged L--55 Ids.

Co-operation is the, liujst efleelive of all moans of imluciiig voluntary eeunom v.

Pot,atoo,s. as will animals, need eont-iiinul and severe ending il t\pr and quality are to be retained.

Commence in a small way and build up tbe flock is gained. Them is no sliorl- cut to

At -tlie beginning of' this year there were G'2,101 dairy cows in the Otago district.

Ti is reported than a big laranaki dairy factory has sold its output- ot cheese up to December next at U|d per lb. ...

A Portmadoc woman (says a London paper) placed seven’ duck eggs in an oven when a. brooding lien neglected them, and tn t\'o days the ducklings hatched out. .

The Dairy Control Hoard expresses the firm belief that unles 3 butter boxes are wired, noiliing less t-lnui b-8 inch ends should be used to ensure sale carriage.

The pig industry does not appear to have assumed 'cry large proportions % tUago. Of P 15.171 pigs hi the Dominion on January- oil .hist, there were only 20,Gib in the Otago district.

'Pile Wanganui Paver 'trust is at present engaged in planting between -1.000 and DUOU trees at Pukeliiuau. These arc for the most ( part timber trees, to be useful for'"pile's and fences iu tho future.

With the introduction 61 the ladybird into the Wanganui district, the ravages of blue gum blight have been considerably checked. lliete are now several instances of stricken plantations which have made a wonderful recovery.

Lambs have’ already made an ap pea ranee in the lorded district. Quite a number have boil observed within the last, day or so. Reports to hand from outlying ■.districts indicate that within a week the season should be I'a-trly general v

The Wai mate Witness undertands tiiat a large (jdh'ntity o( 11 1 lie Kaupokonui Factory Ciihvpany’s cheese has realised IOGs Gd per ewt. ami That this will materially eiilmnee the pav-oul, which lias already reached Is' G.)d per lb of -butlerfat for the season. • .*>. .

A Wanganui resident, interested in th© stock states that some of the clearing sales for dairy- cows thisseason have been . disappointing along Die coast. There appears to he a tendency t 0.,, discard the moie strenuous 1 ifo ol dairying in pro ferencc to sheep', particularly where the farmers are in' the position to make the change. . .

Urokon weather mis seriously inior fort'll with supplies, pi; niaized, reports the Auckland lierald. so thathe recent small consignments . have readily realised 7s on, the wharf n wholesale lines. This is.regarded m only a temporary shprtago, as Lisborne and the Pay of Plenty ari almost ready to send along the fus of their new grain.

‘A new and highly! successful

•system of poisoning- - rabbits,” win how Mr Horn (Wakatipu) describe’ it when be asked the; Minister ol AgricuTCure in the House whetlie h c won”] instruct the • officers of he Department to get in touch with « voinTiif man named Tate WHO- had invented the method referred to This young man had discovered that applying s try eh nine to: thistles was the most fatal method ever applied to kilting rabbits.

The big squatters came under Labour lire ,iu Die House when Mr F. H. Laiigstone quoted the figures of the blocks of the bigger farmers. “The Riddiford’s 22,000 sheep,” he said, ‘‘tin; Lowry - ., .‘IO,OOO. the Hunters’ 40.000,. the Williams' 1.00,000. and Dalgety’s lldjKK). i And these men. are exempt from income tax altogether.” The squatters, lie said hud never paid income tax. Jhe ie bate of 5 per cent, on unimproved land Imd more than reimbursed them for anything which they had lost on land tax.

Mention was made by Mr AN. Jones at Friday's meeting of the North Tarauki Provincial Branch ol the Farmers’ Union- that within the near future a number ol O.'lt.l*. (optional right ot purchase) leases expire, but owingi to the stringent financial condition™; prevailing many

Fanners bad been unable tu ell eel the ■purchase el' their farms. The following resold Urn was carried: “That owing to the financial position prcvallng' at present- this branch suggest that a liill bo brought down giving land boards the power to extend the perip dfq'r purchase of land under O.R.E. leases, and that revaluation he; . held over during the period of extension.’: