GREY VALLEY NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1923, Page 3

GREY VALLEY NOTES

* - — ——— (Own Correspondent.) The recent rains have done a lot of good throughout the Grey Valley. The crops are all looking well, particularly the oat crops. The paddocks are now at their best, and within the next few weeks there will be plenty of fat stock available. The shearers will be at work as soon as the weather takes up. Many of the dry sheep are already shorn, and the lambs are looking fairly well considering the late spring. The dairy farmer has now got his full herd in, and it is anticipated that many of the farmers who have been testing their own herds will show a big increase in their butter-fat yields. Many of the poor testing cows have gone to their last resting place. Many farmers this year are killing all th® bull calves and keeping the heifersIt pays better to feed pigs than to rear calves at the present prices. A farmer can fatten two pigs on the milk it would take to keep one calfThe Grey Valley branch of the Farmers’ Union are trying to arrange for a reputation of farmers from their Union to meet Mr Coates (Minister of Public Works) at the Waimaunga State Farm, to try and impress upon him the necessity of erecting up-to-date buildings for am odel dairy farm. At the present time, the farm is run on the dry stock basis. What Coast farmers want the Government to do is to show them something they don t know. Everyone knows how to deal with dry stock, but up-to-date farming would be greatly appreciated by farmers throughout the Coast. Dr. Scott, who has been ill for some considerable time past, paid a visit to Waiuta last Sunday, and was looking quite himself again. Several farmers from the Grey \ alley are paving a visit to the Christchurch Show, and it is expected to see some purebred stock find its way to the Coast. 4?