FARMING NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 7 November 1934, Page 5

FARMING NOTES.

RURAL RAKINGS, A correspondent of a London papier records lifting a potato on his farm, Greys, Doyeton, Herts, weighing 21b. Boz. The potato was a Sharpe’s Express. Ten Southland cheese companies sold their September-November output of cheese 10 to 12 days ago for 5d per lb., less li per cent, commission, says an exchange. During last week the Seaward Downs and a smaller company sold their output for three months at sid, and three other companies have sold their output till the end of November for sfd.

One hundred and twenty-two rams were sold at the. Kent, or Romney Marsh, Sheepbreeders’ Association ram sale at Ashford in September for a total of £1829. The average price was £l4 19s lOd, which is,£s lower than last year, but slightly higher than the previous year. The top price of 215gns. was paid for J. Egerton Quested’s champion; Wm. Miller’s reserve champion sold for 48 guineas. Both of these were included in the 60 rams purchased for export to South America.—London Times.

Mr G. G. Taylor, a member of the staff of the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North, is at present carrying out an investigation in Hawke’s Bay in the improvement of spray applications and spraying machines. An interesting feature in connection with orchard sprays was mentioned by Dr Cunningham, mycologist at the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North, in the course of an address to Hawke’s Bay fruit-growers. Discussing the toxic action of present-day sprays both on insects and fungi, Dr Cunningham pointed out that these sprays were also toxic in some degree to the trees to which they were applied. Because of this, considerable interest was being taken in the development of spraying materials made from plant extracts which, while fulfilling their function as insecticides and fungicides successfully, were less harmful to trees and plants. Such sprays were being used extensively experimentally, while one spray-—nicotine—-had been used for a number of years. u.s.a. wheatTiarkets. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. Chicago wheat quotations are: December, 981 cents, a bushel; May, 96| cents; July, 90J cents. New York, cash, 105| cents.

IMPERIAL SMELTING CORPORATION.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 5. The Imperial Smelting Corporation reports a net profit of £154,984; the sum brought in was £12,680. The preference dividends absorb £134,538, and the sum of £33,126 is to be carried forward.