ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 473, 22 September 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NEWS, VIEWS AND COM MEN IS

A Hereford bullock sold .at the Burnside market' last week realised the high price of i-'dO 10s.

By planting the kind of flowers that Ix'cs prefer it is said that the honey yield can be increased 20 per cent.

The farmers ul Waimatc, South Canterbury, have sown between oO and 00 per cent, less wheat this year than they did last year.

Though it is early tor the new season's lamb to be on they inaikct. throe lambs were killed at iimaru last week.

An extraordinary development in <lraugrht horses in (Jamaru s district iji recent years has been that a number of foals have been burn without eves most of them 'have 'survived.

The advance payments made by the Okoia and Wangaelm Co-op. Dairy Factory Companies for August supplies amounted to Is Sd per lb ot butterfat.

Three hundred square miles oi mar. vellonsly rich- soil ;wi 1 1 be added to the area, of England when the Wash has finally been reclaimed from the

"At a show at' Islington, London, people paid as much as 7s Od lor a scat to see butter made,’:’ sax] Mill. Ci. Dickie, when speaking at a meeting of farmers at Wei tot am.

It is many years slice New Zealand experienced such a wet wintci and earlv spring, and reports from various parts of the country show that the excessive moisture bus seriously retarded growth.

At the Nuiinka (I’overly Bay) dairy factory last season I'.bll.fco'Jlln of milk were received, the output oi cheese being 782 tons. The . priei paid out lor butter!at was Is did. and a. further hi per lb was dee idee upon at the annual meeting.

Shiploads oi ißussian wheat have just reached France, lor ,tlie firstLime for toil years. The j. ••wheat crops this year is said to be the best since the revolution and approaches the pre-war average of 70,000,000 tons.'

A New Zealand who had done tin English A. and P. Shows writes' The Bed Devons were a splendid type and they should suit. New.. Zealand well. The beef quality is better iliac Chat in New Zealand,’ but uhe lamb could not compare with ours.

Although the average losses if hi mbs throughout -Biangitikei are reJ Juried to Pc very .-light, seme, very heavy depletions of flocks are report c<) from the northern' , part of. tilt country. Percentages so far record ed are fairly good, but these will not be fully compiled until docking.

According to the railway return. 1 only eight tons of linin’ per mile wa; imported through the railway stations between Palmerston urn Pucka kariki last year. The biiiput lor tin Dominion was 100,000 toils and tin inference was that this coast wasgetting very little lime' comparative ly.

A dairymen in M aiigaiiui, com mealing on tlie laic spring, .stater that liis cows so far had shown : very poor return, but that the mill supply was improving. burtunule ly, lie had a good supply' ol bay fo: the winter months and had kept lib cows in. good condition so that with a lew days line weather they shouk respond very quickly.

“If you buy a luncheon basket ii italy to-day, you might land a piec j of old Taranaki cow,” remarked Mi Id. U. .Dickie, when addressing i ' meeting of farmers at \\ a: to Lara. Oi liis recent tour he found that a great deal of New Zealand second gJ'adi beef found its way to the Continent, where it was rolled round like a piece of bacon. It was invariable pickled and smoked, and eaten raw.

One of tho speakers at a lauiquet in Mai.igatoki recently said Ju thought a farmer found it dillieult to give expression to Ids thoughts as he would like Later, Air Weir, talking of tho “Cookie”’ farmer said that his opinion was tho farmer had a remarkable facility of expressing his thoughts when 'lor instance things did not go well, in the milking shed.

M, 11. 0. Dickie, at a meeting of fanners at Waitotaru, mentioned that in America and in Switzerland a milk drinking campaign had been instituted. .He considered it might lie possible for tho New Zealand Dairy Control Board to slni't a similar campaign at Home, aiid pointed .oat that extensive drinking ol lml.k

thcro would ultimately menn Unit the Old Country would import greater quantities of butter and cheese.

At least one Poverty Bay fanner intends to try out the new style oi wool packs this season, if they can he obtainable. The farmer i’ll question, who is in a fairly big way, intends to put about half of bis best quality wool jin the new packs and the romaider in the ordinary ju to packs. From-the prices lie receives be will be able to ascertain whether the extra expense oi the all-wool pack is ,justified. It is anticipated that the cost of the. new type of pack landed in Gisborne will be in the vieiuitv of 18s.