FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL BAKINGS. The dry season ‘has .been causing some concern amongst dairy farmers in the matter of supplies of winter feed, of which roots can provide only a limited proportion, says the Christchurch Press. The fear expressed some weeks ago that the oat crop would be small lias been confirmed during the last fortnight or so. The crops over a wide area are shooting into ear, and in many oases where they have been grazed will be almost too short for harvesting. The lambing returns for the AVcst Coast of the South Island by the Department of Agriculture disclose a remarkable increase in the lambing percentages over the previous season, because of the favourable weathex*. Tho percentage of lambs throughout the whole of the AA’cst Coast was 96. .This is above the average. Last year the percentage was 93. The figures from 34,022 ewes were taken into consideration in compiling the return. The recent spell of dry weather, now fortunately . broken, is reflected in the cream Cheques distributed to suppliers of tho AVhangarei Dairy Company. The total pay-out, based on 12id per lb. superfine and 12d per lb. standard, is £30,076, as against £32,236 for the October, 1936, supply, in respect to which the advances were id per lb. lower. The unseasonable weather, coupled with the loss of supply through zoning, “resulted in the output falling from 354 tons for October last year to 318 tons last month.