What “Sundowrer” Hears

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 12

What “Sundowrer” Hears

A fatal case of anthrax in a cow ill reporter from Canterbury, New Zealand. Agricultural department experts are investigating, says an Australian exchange.

Dr. Barker, director of the British Wool Research Association, said that they had developed a new and harmless sheepmarking fluid which cost only is tid a gallon and which was sufficient to mark BO’fl sheep. • • s

As an outcome of recent conferences between the Canadian Sheep Breeders’ Association and members of the Winnipeg and Brandon Boards of Trade, a movement is on foot for placing 100,000 sheep annually on Manitoba farms. The sheep will be sold to individual farmers in lots of fifty, * » -

A scheme of extensive cultivation is now being carried out at Ratana where a large area is being prepared for spring sowing (says the Wanganui “Herald”). Various classes of crops will be put in, and it is calculated that in addition to supplying the wants of the pa, a suplus will be available for sale.

Gentlemness costs nothing, but the dairy farmerwho possesses it and exercises it in the management of hie herd is possessed of something of the utmost value. What a contrast exists between the dairy herd that is gently used, and that which is habitually ill-used, and what a difference there ie between the financial returns from the two, even although they may naturally possess equal powers of production, • a ■

A novel prosecution is pending against a milk vendor in Wanganui, and is probably the first of its kind in the Dominion, hei s to be charged with carrying milk for sale in a vehicle in which water was also carried. capable of being used for diluting the milk. An Aucklander, formerly of Wanganui, recalls that on one occasion a horse drawn heaise was for sale, the last of Its kind (says the “Star”). After several fruitless efforts to sell, accompanied by a strong recommendation that the vehicle might be useful for cucumber frames, the owner finally disposed of it to an Auckland fish vendor, and it was frequently seen on the streets here in connection with the fish business.

The charges on butter have been again largely reduced by the Port of London Authority, advises the repiesentative for Australia and New Zealand on the 7th inst. They are now as follow: —Boxes, consolidated rate,, including receiving into stores rent for one week from first date of landing, and delivery to land conveyance, 14s per ton. Rent per week for second period of seven days 6s per ten. and for each subsequent period of' seven days, 5s per ton. Lighterage if incurred ' in addition.

Incidents have been quoted frequently in an endeavour to show it is impossible for a farmer to determine with any degree of accuracy which cows should be culled as worthless unless he has the aid of herd-testing figures with regard to the whole of his herd. A typical example of this is provided by a Poverty Bay fanner who decided to cull a cow inclined tobeefiness, but put her under test before doing so. He found, however that this eow was by no means a "dud,” and that by the end of theseason she had produced 398J1b. of' butter fat. She is still in the herd..