GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 8

GLEANINGS

A shipment of 20.000 .nursery fruit trees was sent from Wellington to Argentine on June 27th. Their value was put at X'SOO. They came from Messrs T. Horton and Sens' nursery at Hasungs* and consisted chiefly of apples. Mr Horton. thinks his win at the Melbourne Fruit Exhibition was responsible for this order.

A proprietor of a cheese factory, with a view to finding out how his cheese compared with other brands from the Dominion, enclosed a note with one cheese asking tho purchaser to give his candid opinion thereon. He was not highly delighted when he received the following laconic reply from a Birmingham merchant; “Hr , Your cheese was rotten." A farmer in the Paten, district supplies some interesting figures relative to the comparative profits of dairy and potato farming (says the local “Press”). These figures, taken over a number of years, show that an acre of potatoes will produce as much as eight good milch cows. As it is exceptional dairying country that will run a cow to 11 acres, tho figures mean that' potato growing is twelve times more lucrative than dairying. An Australian inventor has produced a contrivance by which binder twine can be turned into rope in a few minutes. The rope can be made to any thickness or length. It is not supposed that farmers will in the future do all their own ropemaking. but it is thought by those who have seen the implement working that farmers will find it very convenient and useful in case of emergency.