FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS

All sections maintain their buoyancy, although in the fat branches the fever has somewhat subsided, says a Waikato market report. Better entries both of beef and mutton have been attracted through the recent improvement and steadiness seems probable for a period. The initial spring fairs for store cattle take place soon and are sure to excite interest. Although competition on smaller linos has so far been marked by great keenness, it is questionable if buyers arc numerous enough to support the larger offerings with similar liberality. Reports of a mysterious disease among chamois in some of the high-country runs in North Canterbury are causing concern to farmers in the district. The reports wore mentioned at a meeting of the North Canterbury executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and it was decided to ask the Department of Agriculture to make public to farmers some particulars of the disease. Mr J. W. D. Hall, Hororata, said that many reports of the outbreak were current in his district, and farmers were concerned lest the disease might be one which farm livestock coidd catch. Farmers had a right to know of any such danger.