BY THE WAYSIDE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 233, 14 September 1934, Page 11

BY THE WAYSIDE

Of Interest to Farmers N.Z. EGGS IN ENGLAND The great Crystal Palace Dairy Show in London affords an outstanding opportunity for competitive display of eggs, both local and imported. Up to the present time New Zealand eggs have not been represented at this exhibition, but, following a suggestion from the Canterbury Egg Export Committee, the New Zealand Poultry Board urged export committees in the four centres to enter exhibits of white and brown eggs at this year’s show. Entries have been made and results will be awaited with much interest. • • • For some time past the New Zealand Poultry Board has been in communication with the High Commissioner in London, through the Department of Industries and Commerce with reference to the most effective methods of advertising New Zealand eggs in Britain during our export season. Reports furnished by, the High Commissioner show that New Zealand eggs are very highly regarded on the London market, ft has not been possible to arrive at a decision regarding this season’s exports, but the matter of advertising will be pursued with a view to future action. • • • The Council of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany has decided to offer for sale approximately 1000 quarters of a new oat, Resistance, bred by Dr. Herbert Hunter, of the Cambridge i University Plant Breeding Institute. Approximately three-fourths will be the produce of autumn-sown and the remainder will come from spring sowings, reports the “London Times”. The new oat, which is the product of a cross Between grey winter and an Argentine oat which possesses remarkably clean, stiff straw, is being introduced to meet conditions of cultivation under which the older sorts have shown delects, and particularly to meet the requirements of soils of high fertility. • * • The shearing of stud rams lias taken place on several Gisborne properties, and it is reported that in one instance evi n a line of wethers lias gone under 1 the shears. Although this is the usual I time ol the year for the shearing of I stud rams in sheltered positions, other ■ -hearing is not usually expected until I the end of this month, or the beginning I of October, and then ..illy in a few I particularly favoured areas. ' • * # I In progeny of a herd sire well I known in the Gisborne district a numIbei- of years ago have sired many calves with earmarks. This peculiarity has persisted even into the third and tourth generations. Several Gisborne farmers

have had numbers of calves born with the earmarks of Dominion Hawthorn, a Jersey bull bred by the Ruakura State Farm, Waikato, and although it was as far back as 1311 when this bull first made its appearance in the Gisborne district calves are still being born with his earmarks. • « « It is obvious that there will be very little, if any, wheat tor export this season, for growers in most districts in Canterbury have suffered from the early spring rains. In those districts where growers were fortunate enough to get their new season’s wheat sown before the change in the weather, crops are coming away fairly well, and a good yield should follow, but the fortunate ones are not great in number, says a southern correspondent. In many parts of the province there is still a good deal of water lying about, and in normally dry districts large areas are far too moist to allow sowing operations to be pushed ahead. Up till the beginning of this month many growers were still living in hopes that they would be able to get their wheat sown, but any hopes they had were dashed by last week’s soaking rain.