GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7019, 6 January 1910, Page 3

GLEANINGS

The prize money for the next Royal Show of Sydney amounts to .£I6OO.

Grain crops in Victoria are turning out better than was expected. At its first show tho Dahnevirk© District A. and P. Association will offer *£•lso in prize money and trophies. Turnip and ran© crops are looking very well in Taranaki, a > well as maize, which is becoming a deservedly popular greon food in the dry weather. Haymaking is declared to be satisfactory work this season.

A new class is being provided for its great show by the Sydney Royal Society. This is for a bull and five of his progeny, these to be tested on the farms for the greatest amount of milk and butter-fat.

The few members of the did staff at Moumahaki Experiment Farm presented Mr F. Gillanders (late manager) with a set of gold cuff-links and studs on the eve of his retirement from the position. The advent of November (says a Home correspondent) finds hundreds of acres of corn still in the fields, black and ruined, and the land is in such a. state of quagmire that the useless corn cannot bo removed, and preparations for next season are at a standstill. From May Ist to the end of November the total imports of butter into Britain were 9000 tons less than, in 1908, so, Weddels conclude there is "a big deficiency to make up before the markets are surfeited with colonial, as • eomo buyers are eagerly expecting/ 1 Caterpillars and rust are playing havoc with some of the oat crops at Taratahi, several growers having had their crops totaUV destroyed, says the "Daily Times/ 1 One farmer states that he intends to put a match to his, as, 1 owing to the ravages of the pest, it is fit for nothing else.