Kernels off the Cob

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 October 1931, Page 3

Kernels off the Cob

Last year of the pupils who left the Hamilton Technical High School over 48 percent took up farming.

Mint is a lucrative crop in Ohio, U.S.A., the farmers selling their harvest to chewing gum manufacturers. A farmer in South Dakota, U.S.A., chartered a plane to find one of his runaway cows.

At the Sydney wool sales last week greasy Merino made usi to 17id, the highest price for tfie season.

A number of wool-blind sheep, mostly Corriedales, have been coming into the Addington yards. The sheep knocked themselves about by running into fences.

Civilisation shortens the life of a horse. In a wild state he lives to be thirty-six or forty years old, while the domestic horse is old at twentyfive years.

“In no part of the Dominion does there exist a more hard-working lot of farmers than are to be found in the Northern Wairoa.” Testimonial from the “North Auckland Times.”

Roughly speaking, the Empire butter producers received the same figure as last year, namely £13,000,000, although they sent half a million hundredweights more butter to Brit-

On the shores of Lake Titicaca, South America, the original home of the potato, there are one hundred and fifty varieties of white potatoes that have never yet been introduced to tfie rest of the world.

An official of the U.S. National Grange pleads publicly that farmers be “preserved from legislators, fanatics, bankers and ‘friends’ in general.” Evidently he believes the relief they need is relief from relief. Shareholders in the Ruawai Dairy Co. are organising a Co-operative Lime Co. to supply agricultural lime to the Flat farmers. An option has been secured over two quarry sites and it is estimated that lime can be crushed for about 12/ a ton.

A farmer of Paerata Ridge, Mr. W. Murray, was admitted to the Opotiki hospital last week suffering from a fracture of the spine and broken ribs, received when he fell 10 feet from the roof of an old shed on which he was putting a new roof to the floor.

The indications all point to a late season for fat lambs along the West Coast of Wellington. On many farms the lambs are showing signs of scour, due to the grass having been wet for several weeks. A spell of warm, sunny weather is badly wanted.

Wanganui farmers who made ensilage for feeding sheep are very pleased with the results. Last winter was one of the hardest winters experienced by sheep men, and the ensilage came in very handy to feed to the ewes.

The insurance companies have de-' cided not to appeal against the decision of their responsibility for the fire at the Wairoa Meat Works following the earthqquake, and will pay the £60,000, plus interest and costs. Very welcome news to the shareholders.

The Northern Wairoa A. and P. Association has adopted a new Show regulation by which no artificial trimming of wool is to be allowed in future. In spite of last year being a year of unparalleled industrial depression and financial stringency, the quantity of butter eaten by the people of Britain was at least 10 percent greater than in any other year, says Weddel’s annual dairy report. A Waikato farmer sent 15 heavy woolly sheepskins to auction and received sixpence each for* them. Then his wife bought a pair of ordinary shoes for his five-year 7 old girl and had to pay 7/6. Now he wants to know, through the “Waikato Times,” why shoes are so dear when sjjeepskinsi are so cheap?