FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. An object lesson in industry and a striking vindication of the potentialities of the popularly-despised peat swamp land in the Waikato, is provided by the experience of two brothers, Messrs Clem and Jack Tomin, farming a 200 acre property at Ruluihia. In little more than ten years they have transformed their holding from a desolate waste into a picture of smiling fertility, says the Waikato Times. Spirited bidding for the liest animals was very noticeable at the seventeenth annual sale of stud rams, conducted by the Wairarapa Stud Sheepbreedrs’ Association, at the Masterton Showgrounds, and as a result the average for the sale was 53gns., as! against last year’s average of approximately oOgns. The sales included: Account Sir Mm. Perry one stud Romney at 70gns.. J. A. Mitchell, Longburn; one at 92gns., A. Brown, Feilding. Account H. Bowen, Bulls, one at 11 gns.. one at 18gns., R. F. R. Beetliam; one at lions., R. Sunderland, Havelock North. In view of the arid conditions prevailing in the Waikato farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to feed stock and the opportunity is being taken in certain cases to move cattle to parts of the country where there is more grass. Evidence of this is given by the fact that two special stock trains have J>oen arranged to transport beasts to Kirikopuni. in North Auckland, where the rains have been responsible for a splendid growth of grass for this time of the year.