FARMING NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 5

FARMING NOTES.

RURAL RAKINGS

Wilson’s Meat Company, one of the leading Chicago enterprises, which has also important South American interests, was so impressed by recent shipments of chilled beef from Australia that it has decided to send a representative from London shortly to visit all Australian States to investigate the possibility of establishing Australian branches.

The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. C. E. Macmillan) has given permission for the shipment to the United Kingdom of boneless veal (bobby calf moat) hold prior to the embargo, according .to advice received by Auckland meat exporters from the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. The permission refers to veal from all carcases killed before July 12 and still held in store. The meat is to arrive in the United Kingdom before December 31.

; Another spring has brought with it an increase in the broom and gorse of the South Matamata County,, it is reported. Steps to combat both those pests, which are- classified under the same heading as ragwort, havo been an annual endeavour, but the pests have increased and a tour through almost any part of this territory reveals a series of the weed growing freely. The Putaruru Town Board’s area harbours a. considerable amount of broom and the board is communicating with property owners with the weed on their land and asking them to clear it. An Adelaide paper gives some experiences of a Somh Australian farmer in the successful treatment of pulpy kidneys in lambs. Ordinary treatment, unfortunately, tends to defeat the object of the lamb raiser, because, should the trouble become too prevalent, it is essential to remove the flock on to poor pasture, if one does not wish to lose a large percentage of lambs. A number of apparent cases of this com-, plaint have been treated in the case mentioned by drenching with turpentine, 10 to 15 drops, and two dessertspoons full of raw linseed oil, well shaken A sheep is easy to drench if a small olive oil bottle is uisod. One point is not to hold the head too high. The best policy, for the woof .producers to follow is the old and tried policy of meeting the market with the supplies as they become available (says the Australasian). There have been booms and slumps before. Sometimes in a single season there have been amazing price fluctuations. When wool falls below a certain level there are always speculators about to absorb what they regard as cheap lots. At recent sales some speculators operated. In periods of low wool prices also there are some growers who feel that by choosing their times to offer their clips they can gain market advantage's; but the records of the trade show that those growers who sell year after year at about the same time to do best 'in the long run.