RURAL TOPICS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15334, 17 June 1910, Page 9

RURAL TOPICS

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. The entries of stock at the Addington market on Wednesday were as follows, the figures in parentheses showing tho previous week’s entries:—Sheep 15,358 (14,115;, pigs 524 (573), cattle 440 (453).

The Mocraki took a large number of stud sheep for Sydney yesterday. Mr W. Nixon exported 2U Border Leicester rams, 23 English Leicester rams and 42 Border Leicester ewes. Mr J. Douthwaite shipped 36 Dorset Horn rams and 27 ewes of the samo breed. Fifteen young draught horses also went by the same steamer.

Practically the whole of tho Allandale Estate, which two- years ago was subdivided into thirty-four farms by Mr James Wilson and put up to auction, is now sold, states tho Fairlie correspondent of the “ Lyttelton Times,” The bulk of it has been sold privately since then, and many prospective buyers considered it was as cheap as any laud they looked at in the South Island The climate of Fairlie has a bad name, but it is painted a great deal blacker than it really is. Its bad reputation is duo largely to the winter of 1903, but that was an exceptional one. The amount of fat stock which has gone away from tho district this season and is still going is quite remarkably large.

A curious egg was laid recently by a Black Minorca lien belonging to Mr J. T. Hill, of Lincoln. The circumference of the ogg measured 94 in by 7jin. Within the egg was another perfectlyformed egg, with a shell of its own, measuring 7in by s|in.