FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS

The output of the Tc Awamutu Cooperative Dairy Company, for the twelve months ended May 31 amounted lo 1776 tons of butter, an increase of 6 per cent, on the previous year. . Recently, at Walgett. in New South Wales, 11 grazing blocks were offered for settlement, which averaged about. 14,000 acres in area, each block with a carrying capacity of 3000 sheep. For . the 11 sections no fewer than 4565 applications were roA promise to find half ihe cost of an aerial'survey of a section of tlie .Urewera country, to locate a, suitable stock route between Tc Wcra and Wainjana, to connect ' Poverty Bay with the Lay ot Plenty was made by the Minister of Public Works (Hon.. R. Semple) im reply to a deputation the other day. The few days of summer-like weather have assisted in the speeding up of wheat sowing operations, says a Canterbury exchange. The amount of Hie moisture in the soil in districts which only rarely are affected by this trouble has been surprising, and tillage operations in many districts have been, from a fortnight lo a month behind. Some definite assurance by Hie Government that the price fixed lor wheat should be such as to recompense farmers for growing it would, be an inducement to farmers m Hie le--11)111:” district' to sow more wheat this yihi than last, according to those who who were interviewed by a. reporter. As it is, though on some farms more wheat is being grown than last year, on most less wheat has been sown. Ireland has tackled the problem F of utilising the cull cow without emptying the incut for human consumption; a . r.ique type of meat factory hayirig been orened in the Free State solo ourpose of dealing with cujlsY>-Every dcv'ce has been installed, in. ."-This- up-to-date factory for converting every part of the animal into ft commercial product. Meat meal, bone meal and meat and bone meal will be made for pig feeding, and a meal for poultry .' will also be .made. Edible and commercial fats will be produced, and fqll use will be made of tile bides, hoofs and horns. About a thousand cows a week will be handled.