FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 June 1939, Page 7

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. RANKS PENINSULA PASTURES. A pasture survey on Banks Peninsula will be undertaken within the next, few months by Hie Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The survey will involve investigation into the reported deterioration of peninsula lands. Production At Morrinsville. , The output of the Morrinsville Co-op. Dairy Company’s butter factory for tbo year ended May 31 was 3530 tons, as against 3381 tons for the 1937-38 season. These figures showed a decline of 351 tons, or 9 per cent., for the season. Fresh Blood Wanted. The removal of the embargo on the direct importation of rtock from Great Britain, provided most adequate safeguards were onforced, was favoured by a large majority of the delegates attending the North .'Taranaki Farmers’ Union conference at Inglewood. The opinion was also expressed that artificial insemination was at present too much in the experimental stage to be substituted as a safe method of introducing new blood into the country. Less Facial Eczema. “Although we missed an outbreak of facial eczema this year, it looks as though we did not miss it by much,” said Dr. J. F. Filmer, at a meeting of the Ruakura Farm Advisory Committee. Isolated eases of eczema had occurred oil a number of farms in the Waikato, in Gisborne, and on the experimental area at Karamu. ’There were II recorded outbreaks affecting 16 cows between January 12 and May 10, 1939, while there were 23 outbreaks affecting ICO owes and lambs among sheep. Values at Morrinsville. Store lambs and breeding ewes were the principal entries in the sheep section at the Morrinsville stock sale last week. A firmer demand existed for store lambs, which sold at improved rates, but breeding ewes were again slow of sale. There was a full yarding of beef and a. medium entry of boner cows, the beef entry comprising a good penning of medium-weight prime Hereford and Shorthorn steers, with a few pens of Polled Angus rows and heifers, which sold under keen competition at firm late rales. Boner cows also realised recent quotations. Preparing Show Stock. .A “new one” in the preparation of stock for shows i 9 reported from England. At a meeting of the council of flic Bed Poll Society the question was asked of (lie attitude of the council to the practice of using hair oil in preparing animals for shows. The reply was that there was no question that hair oil did darken Hie hair. ’The. Bed Poll Society’s rule was very clear od the matter. Tt laid down that any artificial alterations of the natural colour or the conformation of an animal, either by eolouraiion or any other means, disqualified an animal from receiving till award.