FARMING NEWS.
RURAL ItAKINGS. • It is estimated by an authority that the annual loss to New Zealand farmers through the piri piri weed is -at least £250,000. Mnay farmers have been heard to say that the cows will not eat hay when there is good grass. They certainly won’teat at such a time hay of poor quality, hay that has been left over from winter feeding, probably the bottoms of stacks, but if there is good hay available they will certainly eat it especially if they have not been allowed to gorge themselves to repletion on succulent grass, a common cause, by the way, of indigestion and udder trouble. Supplies of cauliflowers are now becoming more plentiful at Pukeko.be, the price quoted on Monday being 14s a. largo sack. Cabbages have not changed in value, Drumhead selling at 7s a sack and Savoy at 7s 6d a sack. A small quantity of ta.ble potatoes is still available, the price being £8 a ton. Seed potatoes sell at £lO a ton. Onions are quoted at £8 a ton; carrots, parsnips and beetroot, 3s Od a sugar bag.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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186FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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