GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 4

GLEANINGS

Useful rains in the sonth have greatly benefited root crops, but muggy weather is causing disease to appear among the turnips, and is extending the potato blight.

Mr L. llcHardy is to represent the Itawke's Bay A. and P. Association at the next international conference of the British National Sheepbreeders' Association to ba held in London in June next. Tho mild weather and warm rains have maintained Taranaki pastures in such splendid heart that the milk flow is being kept up in a surprising manner. The season generally should easily prove a record one.

Tho entry of eleven for tho dairy factory produce judging competition at the National Dairy Show is decidedly encouraging. It is a novel departure, and the support accorded it indicates that it will bo of distinct edacativo value. Goodwin Bros., of Woodside, Hamilton, two Banks Peninsula farmers who have introduced Canterbury methods to the Waikato, have just shipped 2o English Leicester rams to Canterbury. Ine sheep were bred at the liuakura Lxpeminent Station.

The Marlborough A. and P. Association hai discussed tho question of establishing the sugar beet industry, and has decided to ask the Government to establish an experimental sugar beet station at Seddon. It would be interesting to know if the association has considered the cost of labour in connection with beet cultivation.

A Canterbury farmer has threshed a paddock of 160 acres of Tuscan wheat which yielded an average of 33 bushels to tho acre. There was straw enough for a return in an average season of fully 60 bushels per acre. Tho Northern Wairoa Dairy Company, Mangawhare, near Dargaville, manufactured during the month of' Jebruary 54,4561 b butter, as against 48,8261 b, or an increase of two and a half tons compared with the previous .February. Ihe total increase from September to iebruary, as compared with the same period last season, is 33i tons.