FARMING NEWS.
RURAL RAKINGSThe value of the current season’s wool production in South Australia is estimated at £4,000.000, an increase of £I,SoU,UUU on the previous year’s total. Work was started this week on a scheme for irrigating 25,000 acres in tho Ashburton county. A gang of 20 men began excavations near Winchmorc and from time to time this number will be augmented until an average of 130 men will bo employed. The work is being done by the Public Works Department at a cost cf about £130,000, and it is estimated that it will be three years before the job is of 22 head of purebred Canadian Jersey cattle is being taken from Canada to Australia by tho steamer Wairiina, which arrived at Auckland from Pacific Coast ports this week. The cattle include a four-yqar-old bull and a fhree-ycar-old bull, tln-ec yearling bulls and two cows, tho remainder being heifers. One of the bulls was a prize winer at the Toronto Winter Fair and at the Vancouver Winter Fair last year. Tho two cows were also prizewinners at tho 1935 Toronto Winter Fair. The animals are all from Brampton, Ontario,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 10
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190FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 10
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