Farm Topics

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 9, 11 January 1936, Page 5

Farm Topics

DRINK MORE MILK The League of Nations Commission on Nutrition has recommended that the population of Britain could well consume an additional 1,000,000,000 gallons of milk a year. Such an increase would require the milking of 2,175,000 additional cows. New Zealand milks approximately 2,000,000 cows for her great dairy industry, if Britain ever drank milk on this scale, there should be no more talk of quotas on our butter and cheese exports. <¥><s> <B> <s• HIGHEST TOR YEARS

Australian wheat-growers are now receiving the highest prices for years. The New Year opened with wheat quoted at 3s lid a bushel. Wheat was one of the primary products that felt the “slump ’ ’ most severely. An enormous surplus supply depressed the price far below cost of production, and there it remained for four years. To-day there is little surplus wheat in the world and prices are firming. <S> <s> <S>

MASSEY COLLEGE LAMBING The last Massey College report gives the lambing percentage of its flock for the past nine years. Until 1935 the average worked out at just under 111 per cent., varying between 107 to 114 per cent. The 1935 lambing, from 1157 ewes of different breeds and ages and mated to different rams, was 102.07 per cent. This is a drop of 8 per cent, from tho average of eight years past. The drop is typical of that experienced by most sheep-owners.