FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

KURAL RAKINGS.

I In- Hawke's Bay the appearance of a complaint known as "green wool" .is reported, the presence of which is probably due to the exceptionally wet season experienced. It animals in their flocks are affected, farmers should at once shear the affected parts of the fleece, and immediately after apply a suitable antiseptic, says an authority. Any. wool shorn should be destroyed, and the instruments used thoroughly disinfected afterwards. In this way the possibility trouble spreading can be guarded against. One beneficial result of the recent floods in the Staveley district (Canterbury) is that most of the grass grubs 'have been drowned. Farmers sav that after the heavy rains and floods in February, an investigation showed about of the grubs were drowned, and that later rains drowned more. During recent years the grass grub has destroyed much valuable pasture, but since the floods, it has been possible to harrow without disturbing the sole, even where the grass grub had been ingThere is a tendency on the part of some farmers, whose hercjs are falling away in production, to pay less atten T tion to the well-being of the animals. Every farmer should aim to turn his cows out in the be*st of condition, or otherwise they cannot be expected to come in in that state. ' The dairy animal should be given as much care during the non-producing period as at other times. If this is done it will be found very much more profitable than neglecting the herd in the winter spell. ... When a remit from the Cambridge branch, asking to have it made unnecessary for farmers to use the unpaid labour of women, came before the Waikato sub-Provincial conference of the Farmers' Union, the president (Mr S. N. Ziman) charactedised the position as ."a disgrace to a civilised community." "We cannot speak too stroii'rlv against the need for women and children to be forced into the | milking sheds," said Mr Ziman. "We; have nothing to say against wives who| elect to help their husbands, but we must protest against the economic conditions which make it necessary for the farmer's wife and family to labour for him." The remit was carried unanimously. A resolution suggesting tho revival of immigration to overcome the farm labour shortage was also carried.