GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7057, 19 February 1910, Page 7

GLEANINGS

Mr.W. 18. C. Smith, of Palmerston, has sold his flaxmill at Oroua Bridge to Mr W. Seifert. In reporting: on the recent meat conference to a.meeting of the- North Canterbury executive of the Farmers' Union, Mr C. H. Ensor declared that farmers should not be satisfied with the conference. There was still as great a need for action as before the conference was held. Fowl is said to be very plentiful in the districts lying between Cheviot and Kaikoura, the country presenting a very pleasing appearance when . contrasted with the plains. ; Arrangements are being made for the orection of a cheese factory at Hapuka, six miles.north of-Kaikoura. The new factory will 'start"' with 350 cows; and already GSO shares have been anplied for. A lino of between 16,000 and 18,000 bushels .of.. Tuscan wheat changed hands at Aslibiirlon oil Tuesday, says the "'■ Lyttelton Times," at 3s Gd per bushel f.o.b. at Winslow railway station; The. 6eller was Mr Leigh, of Maronan, and the grain was on 800 acres. At the Ashburton slock sale last Tuesday a fine line of lambs bred by Mr D. >■•'fdonald. of Longbeach. realised 14e Bd, whilo a small line consisting of nine topped the market at 15s, lid. A line of nine tareo-quarterbrsyl wethers which werv bought last December at 12a 6d were sold.at 36s Bd. For some time past the secretary of the Ashburton-Agricultural and Pastoral Association has been trying to induce the Agricultural Depaarrjrpenfc to carry out a number of experiments in root and grain growing in the Ashburton county. The association has now received a letter from -Mr. A. Macpherson, South Island supervisor of field experiments, stating that the department will be pleased to carry out competition field experiments in the district. Harvesting operations in the Wakanui district, -writes a correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times," are speedily drawing to a close. Along the seaboard, where stook . threshing is quite "finished, the yields have been ninch below expectations. There has been a ■ phenomenal growth of straw, but neither the quantity nor the quality of the grain has beeu in proportion.. The large growth of straw has been the cause of two strikes among threshing-mill -workers, both of which wore satisfactorily settled. The average yields range from twenty to thirty bushels per acre. Mr W. Harding, of Willoughby; near has received a letter from the secretary of the Central (Unemployed) Body for London, thanking hiin for' finding employment for a. man who' had been sent out to New Zealand. The letter stated that the Emigration Committee would greatly value any observa-, tions as to local conditions and develop- 1 ment, with the object of finding employment in selected cases for deserving men. Except in special instances, the committee did not favour the emigration of largo families. It had on its registers a large number of young men, from seventeen to thirty years of age, of good personal and industrial character, willing and anxious to work, used to horses, and in many cases accustomed, as ex-army men. to discipline. It was suggested that ventilation <sf these facts might perhaps induce other employers to correspond w ; tli the committee, and ncauaint it with openings for men of this class.