FARMING NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 44, 19 January 1935, Page 5

FARMING NEWS

RURAL HAKINGS. The egg market is very weak, says a London report. Australian fourteens, 8s; fifteens, 8s 6d; sixteens, 9s 3d. If good soaking rain does not fall in the Franklin County very shortly, many farmers will be faced with the position of having to dry off their dairy herds. Spontaneous combustion is thought to have been the cause of a fire which destroyed about eight tons of prime lucerne, the property of Mr J. Came, Bid will, Pahautea, Featlierson, one recent evening. One stack was on fire when the outbreak was first discovered, but in spite ot strenuous efforts«two other largo stacks were also ultimately destroyed. The United Dairy Company, Woodvillc, (butter) is advancing 7d for December butterfat, and Riverbank (choose) Bd. Despite the dry spell, both factories show an increase in supply on the corresponding period last year. The Riverbank Company shows an increase for the season to date of 15 tons, with the same number of suppliers. An advance payment on December supply of 7id per lb for finest quality butterfat for butter making is being made this month by the Now Zoaiand Co-operative Dairy Coy., Ltd. Payment for first grade buttorfat for cheese manufacture is at Last January payments were 7d and 8d respectively, and lust month 7jd and Bid. The reluctance of boys to go into tlio country was mentioned yesterday at the Dominion executive meeting of the Women’s Division of the Fanners’ Union at Christchurch. One delegate said that although it was announced in Wanganui that 80 boys could bo placed on the land, no boys could bo found willing to accept the positions. At the same time a business man ill the town received 30 applications from boys for a position in his office.

The possibility of exporting eggs to Canada during November _ and December has occupied the attention of the New Zealand Poultry Board for some time, but the danger of a repercussion through Canada exporting eggs to New Zealand during the winter was emphasised at a mooting of the Christchurch district council of the Now Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation by Mr S. F’. Marshall, the council’s representative on the board, lie said the New Zoaiand Trade Commissioner in Canada, Mr J. W. Collins, had promised to try to get some firm offer for eggs on the eastern coast of Canada. IF eggs were sent to the western seaboard New Zealand would certainly be expected to take eggs in return during the flush season.