FARMING NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XII, Issue 1807, 4 May 1921, Page 2

FARMING NOTES.

(By "Agricola.”)

The liner Albion Star has loaded only 4000 carcases I’atea meat, instead of -0,000 carciiSes, us was intended.

Advises have been received in Pahi{hat coloured cheese shipped per £fle Somerset has realised 102/- per cwt. on the London market.

Enquiries have been made by a fruitgrowers* and packers’ association or Oregon (U.S.A.), as to whether Wanganui is suitable for fruitgrowing.

Canada is producing more than 90,4)00,0001b of creamery butter and approximately 200,000,0001 bof cheese annually, according to a bulletin of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The butter produced in 1018 represented a total value of something more than ,-*577,000,000 dollars, while the cheese brought more than 4.1,000,000 dollars.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of April .80th, .1021:—“Sheepskins: 7900 bales were, offered ana 0800 bales were sold. Fairly competition. As compared with last sheepskin sale, prices are irregular. Low crossbred sometimes 15 per cent. low*r.”

Messrs L. C. Ballantine and Company cabled to R. Arlow and Co., under date London, April 30th, the official quotations ex store as follows: — ■*‘Prime ox 4Jd, new season’s lamb 14d, ewes u/(!4, 71d, wethers n/G4 BJd, with substantial reduction for heavier grades; market heavily stocked with New Zealand ewes, Patagonian sheep find lambs, and River Plate sheep anu beef.’’

The first manager of the Edondalc dairy factory, and pioneer of dairying in Southland, was the late Mr George Inglis, who came from Australia. Other managers were Mr Jos. Woods

(now a resident of the Bluff), the. late Mr Thos. Scoullar, Mr James Sawcrs (who was - one of the early dairy instructors and graders for Southland, now living in Invercargill), and the present manager, Mr John Sawcrs, who was at one time Chief of the DairyDepartment in New Zealand.

The Poverty Bay Farmers’ Union passed a motion urging that the ImperTal authorities be requested to purchase this year’s wool clip at 50 per cent, less than the commandeer prices; that they should post it with the balance of the commandeer wool in hand, and dispose of the total at the mean average price for the two clips. It was urged that if this were done it would probably save a loss of 740,000 bales of commandeer wool in hand, stabilise the market, and safeguard eight millions surplus profits.

Although the weather contin'7«'B cloudy and overcast the Waipawa district is still rainless (states the Napier “Daily Telegraph’’). The prolonged dry spell is having a disastrous effect on gardens and pastures, and the position is causing considerable anxiety to the farmers, who are at their wits’ end to find feed for their stock. Last year a large number of trees were cut down for feed, but (his year there are none to fall back 1 on,' as there has been no growth of any description for many .months.

The spread of foxglove on the rich flats on the banks of the Waitotara river was mentioned by Mr Gregor McGregor at the meeting of the executive of the Wellington Provincial Farmers’ Union. He mentioned that he had ploughed and sown in grass in 191(> a paddock of about 40 acres/it was now covered with foxglove, and it was also spreading on to a bush section which had been first grassed a few months ago. The plant was also spreading in other parts of the district. Some of the farmers desired to have the sale of this seed by florists prohibited, ano the Department of Agriculture is now investigating the matter.