ON THE LAND

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3794, 11 August 1932, Page 7

ON THE LAND

NEWS, VIEWS AND COMMENTS

Storm at Sea ! “I must decline nomination. When. I am putting, ..to sea, I like to. go in fine weather. And to-day, I m.ust confess, Ido not fancy the prospects 1” Thus a supplier at the annual meeting of the Pihanra, Dairy Co. who declined nomination for the directorate. However, the supplier wa s finally persuaded that, if the sea was likely to ke stormy, then he was the best man for the position of helmsman.. He was elected to the directorate! Unemployed on Farms Good use of unemployed labour under (ho 4A scheme lias beetn made by a number of fanners in. the southern cast coast area of Hawke’s Bay. These men have ’been put out on to scrub cutting work and as a result, a. considerable acreage of land ha s Leon cleared ill the past few months. The coastal area oilers a wide field fur the prosecution ot development work of this nature and this is a class of work which could hardly he classified as requiring skilled labour. Back to the Cow “If wo are to lilt the slump it seems to .me that we must fid hack to the cow,” declared Air G. Mai ginness. speaking on rural 'development at the meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Progress League. Alt- Alnginnc.y said that with tile low price ruling for lamb, and with SLuth Africa, and the Argontiuo turning to mutton and lamb production, there did not seem much chance, of a lift for New Zealand in that direction. The type cf cow- mow' in. Taranaki was the best producer in the world, and it was along those lilies that. the salvation cf the Dominion, appeared to depend. Per Cow Increase A Dominion-wide plan for- the raising of New Zealand’s per cow production of button at has received the consideration of the -Minister of Agriculture, hut no move is likely to bo made at present. The main, idea is a huge herd toting scheme. It was evolved by Air J. Armstrong, of Opoitiki, and tvste forwarded to "both the Mini'-ter and Director-General of Agriculture. Their comments have now been received by Air Armstrong. Pivorty Bay Testing Although tliero has been a substantial increase iu the number of herds joining the Poverty RajGroup Herd Testing As,', oeialiioti this season, the total in the immediate vicinity of Gisborne remains the game. The development is in the outlying district?., Tolaga Bay -and Tiniroto. Of the 83 herds secured to date, 15 are in the outlying districts mentioned, whereas there were only four last season, all at- Tolaga- Bay. The Ghhorne. To Karaka and Allotu aroag have contributed US herds, ex act! v the samo number as in the previous two seasonsLevip Payout A pay-out and a further bonus were' fixed by the directors, of > Lev in Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd-, this wa**k. The former is at the rate of fid per lb for July butterfut. Thy is the same a,s or June and a- penny more than, the rate which ruled from February to May inclusive. For July of last year the .payment was Is 2d. The bonus is the second and filial one for the season, and ii at the* rate, of l-9d per lb. of blotter" fat. The first bonusi which was paid oil July 20th, was 1 and it vopresented the dif.lributioiii of < h:* e on T16;000. By the latest addition, the average payment for the season. is brought iip to 11.784 per lb. l*ayment of the second bonus "will noil be made until September 20. lli s Year’s Returns A Taranaki resident who is also interested in a i arm on the Hauraki Plains has just made up bis year’s returns. These show that the 150 acres on which 100 cows a*re milked ha»s produced 31.2151 b of butterfat. That represents 205.001 b per acre an 312.141.1> of fa,l per cow. During the 12 years that ho has been interested in the property it lias never received any fertiliser, but the pasture has received plenty of harrowing. The first year's output was 1,5061 b. < f fat. so That there has been an • average yearly increase of over 10001 b. Herd-Ulstii\g in Otago The annual averages for the vaniou.s groups of the Southland and Otago Herding Testing Association indicate steady progress during, th past year, ivul in every case is there apparent a. definite improvement on the early association averages which have rhp.Ti gradually from 183.721 b. of but ter fat for 100 days in 1024-25

to 260.151 b of but.terfat lor 23< days in 1031-32. The average for the live Otago groups .alliliuted with the association was approximately 2541 b for peri ds ranging- frGin 231 to 216 days. SaVy “Jackeroo” It is no oxaggerrriiihV'to- say that something like 00 per cart, ot Hawke’s Bay’s wealth as a province comes, directly or indirectly, ir.xiigraas, so that tile state of our provincial pastures should notually beef a frinueh interest to the average town dweiier as it is to the mail who assists in the fanning of province’s broad acres. Dunedin Heads List Particulars of the wool sales held at the variou centres throughout tlie Dominim for the 1031-32 selling season disclose the fact that for tlie year Dunedin was the mo. important c/elliug centre in N Zealand. offering a larger qua.etity of wool than any other centre. The sales ,n.t Duredi.n totalled 85,456 bales, compared with 82,140 in "Wei lingtnn, 80.216 in Christchurch, 64,G 25 hales at Napier. 50,464 bales at Auckland, 42,881 bales .at Wanganui, 38.062 bales at Invercargill, 29,026 hah*: at Tiiila.ru and .2*256 bales Blenheim, Nelson .and Gisborne, limbing a iotcil ci 4 / 5,165 'bgleg.