FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 42, 17 January 1935, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. Dairy factories in the Wairarapa are noiv running at about the minimmum of supplies, says an exchange. A persistent effort to obtain information concerning the value of a judgment debtor’s lambs was made by the cross-examining solicitor in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, this week. Defendant kept reiterating that their value depended on the weather. “If it rains they will be sold as fat lambs; if it doesn't they will he stores,” re said. At length the defendant was able to give an estimate of their present value irrespective of the vagaries of the weather. Farmers possessing any land infested with foxglove should now be taking steps to make provision for the necessary labour to clear the land (says an exchange). In most districts the beautiful flowers of this weed are in evidence, and the seeding period is not many weeks off. Birds and wind are the two best transferring agencies. Farmers should, however, regard it as a duty not only to themselves hut to their neighbours to see that all necessary precautions are taken to prevent any spread of the seed. The most successful method of accomplishing this is to have existing plants pulled out by the riots. A method more commonly in operation is the cutting of the plants at the ground level.