FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. CARTAGE OF~LAMBS AND CALVES. An Order-in-Council published in the latest Gazette provides that in future the cartage of cull lambs and bobby calves will bo exempt from what is known as the 30rnilo restriction in the transport regulations. Up to the present fat lambs have been the only class of stock exempted from tlib restriction. The King’s Successes. The King gained three firsts, two seconds and two thirds with hi? 1 21 entries in the livestock section of the Royal Agricultural Society’s_ 97th show at Cardiff recently. r lho entries were Shorthorns, Suffolk stallions, Red Poll heifers, Devon?, and sheep, from the Royal farms at Sandrnigham. Windsor, and the Home Farm a; Stoke Clirnsland, Cornwall. Less Australian Wool. A lighter wool clip in Australia this year war- ’predicted by Mr C. W. Russell, a prominent grazier, of Queensland, who passed through Auckland en route to San Francisco this week. He said that sheep were’ generally yielding 81b of wool, compared with 101 b last season, the reason being the long hot and dry spell experienced.. “Coming on top of' the heavy lo?ses of sheep caused by (ho drought, the lighter clip will be a severe blow to farmers,” Mr Russell added. Poor Lambing Season. Farmers in the- Wanganui district, are fully . prepared for a poor lambing season.-. Several fa-mers report that averages will be poor as an unusually high proportion of their ewes are not in lamb. Conditions, however, have been favourable for lambing, and mortality has not been very high. Considerable interest is being taken in the after-effects of the recent epidemic of facial eczema and some farmers have segregated ewes which were attacked by the disease and recovered.