GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6994, 7 December 1909, Page 3

GLEANINGS

The Eoyal Society of Victoria is considering the question of importing liiMrges from Britain. The Feilding Fruitgrowers*' Association proposes taking up advancement of beekeeping. Mr D. Cuddie, Dairy Commissioner, is at present on a visit to the grading stores of the South Island. Mr P. Ireland, the well-known Ayrshire authority of the South Island, who judged Ayrshires at the Wairarapa show, has written to the secretary statins that it conducts its show better than any

other show he has attendod during the last thirty years, both in the Old Country and in Now Zealand. WAIRARAPA NOTES rnon ova own correspondent. MASTERTON, December G. Some of the oat and wheat crops in the district are said to be suffering from rust ami smut. Tho supply of milk at the Miinganiaire cheese factory is steadily inerroarfing, and the sca»oii gives ovary promise oi being u very saU.-iuclory one. V'erv little shcariuc lias been done during the past wtx'k—in fact, K>me stations havi. not shorn a sheep for eight days, on account of tho wet weather. Shearing machines are coming largely into voguo in this district, and in a year or two a shed employing Undqsheari'is will probably l>e a euiioscty. Tho Mastorton Co-operative Dairy Compaiiv recently dif-posid of its creamery at Maiigariuiira to the RexdaJc Co-opera-tive Company, who converted it mio a cheese factory. The rapo crops in the Mastorton district—and, for the matter of that, in the whole of Wairarapa—have been a success this feason, and are well forward. Some of the crops have alrca/iy beeu "fed off."

Pahiatua farmers are considering the f|iie.stion of the (wtablishnient of a eowt eating associatiodi in their d.i-str.ct en lines similar to the Daiefield iis.so.-ia-tion, and there is a big probability of tho matter seeing concrete form. Largo axens of land have been put under cultivation in the Lower Valley district this season. A pleasing feature is the apparent prosperity of the settlers on the new Dyerville SottlcmeJW. There is a good future ahead for these settlers. That there is a big future in front of the Forty Mile Bush. as a dairying dttstriot is being generally recog-niswl. Creameries are springing up in. every part of the district, while the quantity of milk that is being dealt with mils: bo just about double that of last season. Stock in the district aro in good condition—probably bettor than for some years—duo, mainly-' to the excellent season. Tho wool clip promises to be a good one, and as prices for all farm products are Keiu.era.lly of a satisfactory; nature, the season should bo written uown as a successful one. It is stated that the new railway timetable is seriously affecting the arrangements for the delivery of cream to tne various factories in the North and South. Wairarapa from their respective, creameries. Factories will apparently also have some difficulty in getting the butter to the cool stores in Welling Tom as t»on after its manufacture as is desirable.