FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 80, 2 March 1935, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL HAKINGS. A 14-yrar-olc! Corriedale ewe in tho stud of Mr ‘J. H. Carmndy. Blinvood (Vicoria), has had nine iambs in the last five ears. Two of lie:- daughters last year cut 91b and 231 b of wool respectively. Last wear's return of lambs from this breeder’s eg kite red flock was 133 per cent. Experiments carried out at Alexandra, Otago, in the cold storage of soft fruits afford promise not only that fruit growers nay escape (lie embarrassment caused by i glut of production under conditions such were exporeinccd last month, but also ■.hat it may" be possible for them to export hese fruits to the Home markets and dis>cse of them there at a time when they should be out of season in Great Britain. Facial eczema has made its appearance uriong many Gisborne sheep flocks, reports t, correspondent. It was only during-the gist few days that flockmastcrs became uvaro of the disease, and it has appeared ilmost simultaneously in most parts of the iisfrict. One cf the worst features of' the epidemic is that no cure is considered pracicablo on a large scale. When only a few lump are affected tho use cf ointment is ulvised, but with large numbers there is itlle than can be done, except, to put the effected sheep into a bare paddock. So far he mortality from the present trouble has been negligible. Export fruit is not coming forward as "reely as last year, with the result that ome difficulty is being experienced with .shipping arrangements. said Mr J._ H. Brunt, shipping supervisor for the Fruit federation at. Nelson. It had been rcalned, lowever, that the 1935 season’s export vould show a considerable reduction on list year’s record of more than 1.000,C00 e.scs. The total of Graveusteins tills seaon was only 689 cases, compared will 5428 last season. Space bookings on the ■stimates given by growers to date Mere '26,828 cases of apples and 44.124 cases if pears. Theso estimates were now being -evisod, and the. present indications were hat the total of export from Nelson would lot reach those figures, said Mr Brunt. Of all the districts in the Hawke’s Bay u-ovince which have responded to the .vclcome rains of the past few week?, the ■onstal farms around I’orangahau, Heibertille, and Ailcito Mould, if an examination .vas taken to determine where the greatest legree of recovery has occurred, secure tho ■remier honours, says the Danncv j\.,e Evening News. A visitor tc these rhairiots, .vho recently spent a few days on farm.” : n that part of the province, Mas amazed .t the manner in which the grass had 'omo away. To-day these pastures are a eastoral picture. Pastures which were M-ept by grass fires have also - improved n splendid style, and the experience seems in no way to have impaired the vitality of ’he plants. »