FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL BAKINGS.

Heavy shipments of sheep and lambs an at. present being made from _ the bays' o! Banks Peninsula to the various Canterbury freezing works. The seriousness with which New South Wales farmers regard the latest, pest — skeleton weed —may bo judged from the fact that bodies of farmers have been established in tho affected areas to under take the work of extermination. An expert expressed the opinion at one meeting tha. farmers who allowed the weed to grow were a menace to their neighbours. It had been definitely proved that if the weed was prevented from seeding it could he killed within six years. Only one remedy is under test so far for the £SOOO reward offered by the Government for a specific for the destruction of the weed. Mr L. Bullard, an American breeder of Jersey cattle, who owns fanning property 200 miles from New York, arrived by the lonic recently to spend three weeks studying dairying in Now Zealand. Although light showers, which were very welcome, delayed reaping and other activities on Tuesday and again on \\ ednesday last, there are few farms in Ellesmere and adjacent districts of Canterbury on which a start has not been made with seme part of the harvest work. Reaping has been confined mostly to grass seed and early oats, though in a few places barley and early wheat have been cut.