FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. During Iho Inst season 83 groups of 1630 I herds, comprising 102,192 cow?, were testI cd hv the Now Zealand Co-op. Herd Testi ing Association, in the Waikato, the aver- ! age yield being 262.041 b. fat in 266 days. Thu advance by the Kkctahnnu Dairy Company for hntterfat supplied during June was Is. and there was also paid a bonus of Id. a pound for supply from July 1935, to .May, 1936, both months inclusive. A final bonus will he paid when the season's operations are completed . The farmers of the Wairoa and Motu districts have suffered losses recently Owing to dogs attacking sheep. Mr R. F. Jackson, of Maruinoko, had 42 sheep worried by 'two dogs recently. One (log was shot ' at night in the act of chasing sheep, but | t|, c other disappeared iri the darkness, and ! a |l efforts to trace the owners of t.ho dogs have been unavailing. The animal shot was a halfhrcd Alsatian. r i'he mildness of the winter and tlio heavy autumn rains have had a very beneficial effect on the pastures of the Temuka district, and dairy and sheep farmers are predicting a good season. 'lennika is well-known throughout Canterbury as ‘a good dairying district and the big growth of grass this year has brightened this season's prospects considerably. , Kveeptionallv heavy yields are being reported in the potato crops m various districts, and. as is indicated by the slate of the market, these yields are offsetting the weather losses sustained m various other parts, says the Christchurch Press. One grower in the W itimalc dislitct. is toported on good authority to have lifted 25 tons of Aucklander S'aort Tops an acre, and in another paddock 23 tons of Arran Chiefs. These yields were not. from garden plots, hut from average sized fields. There is an unusual position on the potato market with rods quoted at £1 more than whiles (says the Christchurch Star-Sun). A city merchant said that it was hard to understand the unexpected inquiry for Dakotas. There had been a concentration at Lyttelton for this variety. Whites have shown a further fall, and aie now quoted at £2 15s a ton, or £4 f.o.b.s.t. Dakotas have jumped aprpoxjinately 10s a ton to £3 15s and £5 respectively, and Sutton’s have also appreciated a few shillings.