FARMING NEWS.
RURAL RAKING
Rats Damage Crops
Although rate have not reached plague proportions in the wheat country of New South Wales, they are very numerous in some districts and have done a good deal of damago in the south-west. Good Lambing Prospects
Lambing on the plains and the lower country is now nearly completed in Canterbury and the hill country ewe flocks are well .into lambing, except on the high country. Few figures are yet available, but, it appears that in most districts the lambing has been very good, better, most reports say, than for a number of years. Potato Yield.
On a percentage basis, potatoes of table quality grown in the 1939-40 season represented 71.1 per cent, of the total yield, and those described by growers as suitable for seed purposes accounted for 20.0 per cent. The balance of 8.9 per cent. represents the proportion rejected as fit only for pig feed, etc. Corresponding percentages for 1938-39 were 67.3, 23.2 and 9.5, respectively, states the Abstract of Statistics.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 12
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170FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 256, 26 September 1940, Page 12
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