AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 11

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

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The following letter from the secretary to the "Agricultural department to Mr James Allen, M H R., shows that the department has not lost sight of the necessity of taking measures with a view to checking the ravages of the Hessian fly : — " Sir, — I have the honour, by direction of the Minister for Agriculture, to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 17, re the Hessian fly in the Bruce district, and asking that if any of the ' natural enemy ' are imported a number may be placed in the above-named district. In reply I may inform you that the department

made arrangements to import 3000 of the parasites, with the special intention of liberating a large proportion of them in the Brnce and other southern districts which are infected by the fly, but in consequence of unaccountable delay in Europe we have no advice of them at present, and as the season is now so far advanced I am afraid the experiment will have to be postponed till next year. Every effort will, however, be made to have them here early next season. By the latest information it seems that the importation of 'natural enemy' to the United States and Canada has, notwithstanding the fact that the greatest care, skill, and attention were lavished upon the tinyinsects, proved a failure, so that I have not any very sanguine expectation of succeeding where such a department as the United States Department of Agriculture has failed, and would strongly urge farmers to adopt before it is too late the measures advocated in the Leaflet issued by this office and supported by, that well-known authority on economic entomology, Miss Ormerod — viz., the burning of all straw, stubble, and screenings, and, if possible, deep ploughing. Also, in districts where possible, oats, roots, &o. should be grown for a couple of years so as to starve the pest out ; or tho ground might be put down in grass. Again assuring you that the district will not be overlooked when the distribution of the ' natural enemy ' takes place, — I have, &c., John D. Ritchie, secretary." An experiment has been tried in Holland in the watering of cows. Cows kept with water always in their stalls gave much better results than when changed back where they could get water only twice a day. It was fouud that the milk yield increased when the cows had access to water at will, and no decrease of fat contents occurred. The daily increase of milk was small, but as estimated it would improve the yield about 40gal per cow per year. A noticeable feature of the experiment is that the cows drank a little less when permitted to drink at will than when furnished with water twice a day.

In a letter to Tho Times, Mr Qeorgo Adams, the well-known Oxford Down sheepbreeder, asserts that the London milk merchants are at the present time making a large use of foreign milk, finding that they can have it brought by steamboats from continental ports much cheaper than they can get it carried any considerable distance by rail in England. The Victorian Government have arranged with Dalgety and Co. to have cheese taken in the refrigerated compartment of the Aberdeen liner Australasian at Id per lb. The Government offer a bonus of £6 per ton for all cheese exported which realises a specified price per ton in the markets of the United Kingdom. The maximum num that will be paid to any one exporter is £300.

We learn from an American exchange that the Agricultural department of the A. S. A, haß recently imported, as an experiment, some of the broad-tailed sheep of Asia. The breed, says a writer in the Cultivator, gets its name from the peculiarity of its tail, which is very broad, thick, and fat. The whole tail is greatly enlarged, and- first attracts the attention of the observer. The tail fat makes most delicious food, and the Orientals highly prize it. The fat is considered even superior to butter for cooking, and when it is cooked with the mutton of the sheep it gives delicious flavours to it that no one can help from liking. In fact, most of the fat that accumulates on the bodies of other breeds goes to the tails of this breed, and henca it leaves the mutton sweet and juicy, without such thick layers of fat that it is spoiled for many. It is said that by good breeding the tail of the an<mal can be made to represent onefourth and sometimes one-third of the whole weight of the carcase, and as the tail always commands the highest price in the market, this characteristic is very desirable. The best broadtailed sheep average about 901b to the carcase, not including the tails. From 61b to 71b of coarse, long-stapled wool makes the average fleece production, and this is either dark grey or light brown. Two new dairy factories are being spoken of in the Catling district— one at Ratanui and one at Upper Owaka. The Leader's correspondent says that the Ratanui, which is to be a cheese factory, should materially help the settlers in that locality, as they have plenty of good grass for feed, and the roads, I think, are improving by degrees. I hear (he continues) the shares are pretty well all subscribed for, so that being the case it should have a good start. The Upper Owaka, I hear, is to be a creamery, and to run in connection with the Owaka Dairy Faotory, which should pay best for all parties. The United States of America used to do a good trade with England in cheese, but the makers learned how to manufacture " filled " cheese, from skim milk and oleomargarine, consequently the quality of the cheese fell off, and the trade fell off too. The Canadians took up the business, and by manufacturing a really good article they have now established an important trade in cheese with England. This is another proof of the folly of sending rubbish to market ; it may boII for a short time, but when a bad character is once established it is very difficult to get rid of it. The Australasian of the 25th Bays :— " The Perthshire, the new insulated steamer of Messrs Turnbull, Martin, and Co.'s Shire line, left for Newcastle on January 12 with 25,000 carcases of frozen mutton shipped at Williamstown by Messrs Turnbull, Hotson, and Co., of the Newport Freezing Works. According to present arrangements the Perthshire will load 20,000 carcases at Newcastle and 500 tons of beef at Townsville, subsequently proceeding to New Zealand and filling up for London with frozen meat, dairy produce, and general cargo. The steamer Maori King is expected from Sydney on Monday, and will take in 10,000 carcases of mutton at Williamatown on account of Messrs Turnbull, Hotson, and Co. Arrangements are in progress for chartering other steamers for conveying heavy cargoes of frozen meat and dairy produce to the English markets during the present year." An exchange quotes the following as an example of consideration for animals which it might be worth the while of those in charge of man's dumb servants to follow :—": — " One evening in New York the driver of a street car, with a beavy load of passengers, stopped his horses just before reaching Grand street, hitched the reins tight, ran over to a fruit stand, and bought a couple of rosy apples. Returning to his horses, he gave each of them an apple, which the animals munched with great apparent relish. Then jumping on the platform he shook the reins loose, and the horses started off in a way that made the standing passengers grip the straps. To a passenger on the front platform the driver said that, as a matter of fact and not sentiment, one apole was worth more than all the whips in New York in getting satisfactory work from the horses. *I never use a whip on a horse,' he said. ' I drive six horses a day, and give each one an apple, and they seem to look forward to the treat. The scheme cures balky and obstinate horses, and livens np lazy or tired horses wonderfully.' " "Co-operation" (writes the Adelaide Observer) must be the watchword for every rural industry. This does not mean "conspiracy' against other sections of the community, but the very opposite. Take, for instance, the dairy industry. Every dairyman must co-operate

<jj ii i " "«— — — ' ' '■" ~ *■'"" "■ with fellow dairymen to improve the breed of cows, to improve the food supply, to make the very best cheese and butter at the lowest price, because they have to compete with others who can work cheaper and produce good stuff during a great part of the j ear. They must combine to give large orders for boxes and all other dairymen's requisites, to secure cheap railway and ship transit for produce and dairy requisites, saving trouble and cost in entries, handling, &c. Farmer?, fruitgrowers, pastoralists, and all other persons gaining their living from the soil can increase individual prosperity immensely by working in unity with all others. Interchange of ideas, helping each other in every direction, ■will not only ewrich the whole of the producers, but will also cheapen the products, and thus benefit the consumers as well. "Pigs and Pig Breeding" was (says the North British Agriculturist) the subject of a lecture recently delivered before the Brindlington Agricultural Club by Mr Sanders Spencer, of Holywell Manor, St. Ives. Mr Spencer said that within recent years the demand for pigs had enormously increased, and was not now sufficiently met by British products. At one time they looked te Ireland for a supply, but now only a small portion of the supply came from that country. Now America supplied great quantities. Canada, Denmark, Spain, and even Russia also entered into competition, and no doubt the Germans would also enter the list, and establish bacon factories. They had in England the best pigs in the world and the best^ markets. They could command the top prices, and Bhould establish large factories to meet the consumers' demand for pork and bacon. He had in his time kept nearly all the Eoglish varieties of pigs, and need not say more as to their relative merits than that a large majority of the baconcurers with whom he had corresponded did not hesitate to give the preference to the one with the white skin. Size, quickness of growth, and early maturity, with length and depth of side, lightness of forequarters, and full development of hindquarters, fineness of bone and offal, and leanness of meat were the principal points desired by the bacon-enrer. The pig coming nearest to this kind of animal was the large and middle Yorkshire. The beginner should be particularly careful in the selection of his young sows, and he should purchase them of some established breeder who had a charactor for good stock. A good sow which produced a good litter would also be a good suckler and a careful mother. Young pigs should be kept in a progressive state, so that when the time came to fatten them they took but a very short time to finish. A mixed diet was best for every animal, and no animal paid better for attention and kind treatment than the pig.

Messrs Ritchie, Valentine, and Sawers, accompanied by Mr John Ferguson, a director of the Chrißtchurch Central Dairy Company, and Mr M. Murphy, secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, visited on Friday last Mr Reuben Withell's farm at Brookside, where they were joined by several of the leading dairy farmers of the BUeemere district. A careful examination was made of the cows which have been milked for various periods up to three months by the Brookside patent milker, and they were found to be thoroughly sound in every respect, the milking machine not having had the slightest injurious effect upon them. The cows were then milked, and after the machine had done its work each cow was "stripped" by Mr Sawers, when only a small additional quantity of milk was obtained, the most of it from one fretful, recently-calved cow. Examination of the animals after milking was as satisfactory as before. The official visitors were much impressed by the machine as a labour-saving adjunct to dairying, and Messrs Valentine and Sawers, with one of the Government veterinary surgeons, will take an early opportunity of seeing it in operation at the usual time of milking and without the disturbing presence of numerous onlookers. Much interest was taken by the visitors in the great ingenuity displayed by Messrs Withell and sons in the many mechanical appliances about their homestead.

A highly-interesting experiment was recently carried out with 20 cows at the Experiment Station of Cornell University, U.S.A., the object being to ascertain what a fairly good herd could be made to produce, and the cost of production. The cows were mixed crosses of Holsteins, Jerseys, and shorthorns with common stock. The food of each cow was weighed and charged to her. The average yield of milk during 12 months was 72401b, which is iair for such a herd ; but the variations were very great, the extreme range being from 28291b to 11,1651b, while the range of butter fat was from 1591b to 4391b. The average yield of butter fat was 285£1b per cow, supposed to be equivalent to 332 ib of batter, but the best cow gave the equivalent of fully 4001b of butter. It is obvious that the profitableness of these cows varied enormously, and this is shown definitely in a table, giving the cost of the food of each animal for every 1001b of milk and every pound of butter fat produced by her. Thus the cost ranged from Is lOd to 6a 2d per 1001b of milk, and from s£d to Is Id per lb of butter fat. With respect to breed, a shorthorn grade was first in fat and second in milk, with respect to both quantity and low cost of production ; but she had a great advantage in not being in calf duiing the greater part of the trial, as the cows of other breeds were. As a rule, the Holstein crosses came out best as to volume and cost of milk, and the Jersey crosses as to quantity and cost of butter fat. The most important conclusions derived from the trial by its conductors may be briefly stated. With a fairly good herd, carefully fed and kept, milk, they believe, can be produced in their own district for 2s B£d per 1001b for cost of food, and butter fat at 8d per lb. Individual cows of the same breed, they found, varied in milk and butter production more than the breeds themselves.

It has been decided by the provisional directors of the North Otago Dairy Factory Company not to make further efforts with the formation of the company, but to refund the deposits in full. Mr Joseph Snell, of Taradale, who planted two 51b lots of "Magnum Bonum" and " Bruce" potatoes as supplied by the Agricultural department for testing purposes got the following returns: — Magnum Bonums — 53 sets planted in alluvial deposit on September 16, flowered November 30, dug January 24, scaled 451b. Bruce — 63 sets, same ground and date, flowered 10 days earlier, and returned 581b. We shall be glad to hear of any returns from those farmers in this district who obtained parcels. We (Dunstan Times) regret to hear that the late shearing on several stations in the county shows a loss of thousands of sheep during the season.

The number of cattle killed in the saladeros of the River Plate and Rio Grande in 1892-93 is put down at 2,009,000, the greatest number on record. In the preceding year the number was 1,962,000. Still the increase has not been great daring the last 18 years, for in 1874-75 the number was 1,542,000. According to the Buenos Ayres Standard, the pastoral industry of the Argentine Republic has made hardly any progress during the last 10 years, the reason given so far as the sheep industry is concerned jwing the extraordinary ravages caused by scab.

The Argentine, according to this account, cannot be Buch an attractive sphere for pastoral enterprise after all. Referring to the milking test adopted' at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association's show last November, and which was carefully carried out by Mr George Gould, we (Press) note that for the Cambridge, England, stiow to be held in June next, a change has been made in the conditions under which dairy cows will compete, the object being to award the prize in the one case to the cow which gives the largest quantity of milk, and in the other case to the cow which yields the greatest weight of butter. The following are the new regulations : — "Class I — Cows, in milk, of any weight, breed, or cross, giving the largest quantity of milk, provided this be, on the average of two milkings, of the quality which will satisfy the requirements of the standard adopted by the Society of Public Analysts." Class II — Cows, in milk, of any weight, or crosa, giving the greatest weight of butter fat, as ascertained by chemical analysis, provided the yield of milk obtained in two milkings be not less than 251b."

On the uses of gaslime Mr J. Simp3on, of WortleyJ England, writes as follows in the Field :— " I am pleased to see that Mr Tegetmeier (in his communication, on the purification of poultry runs) finds this manure useful for other purposes than warrens. I have had an impression for some time that gaslime possesses other than mere manurial virtues, owing to the way in which rabbits revel in it from the time it is first laid down in its most offensive state, and the greediness with which they eat the grass where it has been last spread. lat first thought that this was due mainly to the salt applied as well, but during the past two years I found they invariably patronised most the places where both salt and lime had been given, in preference to those places where salt only was used. Of course, good agricultural lime will answer the purpose as well, so far as the action of lime is concerned ; but I doubt if the rabbits would ' scrattle ' among quicklime, as usually applied, as they do amongst gaslime. I have used gaslime for many years in a fowl yard, laid in a heap mixed with ashes, for a dußt bath, and with goad effects. During the past two years the young pheasants have been reared in the rabbit warren here ; and, if the accounts in the Field and elsewhere during that period be true, the stock here has been exceptionally healthy, according to the head keeper's estimate and what I know myself. Both Professor M'Connell and Dr Voelcker now recommend gaslime, especially for pasture; but it was the late Professor Lindley, of the London University, I believe, who first explained its value. Forty years ago he criticised Dr Ure, who said that gaslime

gave off fumes 'of the most intense malignity to breathing animals,' and he recommended it to be • buried many fathoms deep in some barren region.' Dr Lindley adds to this his opinion ('Theory and Practice of Horticulture') that gaslime is a good calcareous manure, fit for the purposes in which lime is required, and something more, for the sulphur compounds which it contains themselves act as valuable manures as soon as their intensity is destroyed by diffusion through masses of earth.' Here I have used gaslime for many garden purposes for over 20 years, as it is made on the estate ; and when I used it in the warren first I was quite sure of its effects, although one of the greatest living authorities on agriculture at the time expressed his opinion in black and white on the subject in the almost identical words of Dr Ure. I last year put three tons on the experimental acre in the warren here, which produced by October 130 fine large rabbits that did not have a scrap of artificial food the whole season, nor a drop of water except what fell in the shape of dew."

A runholder from Central Otago recently informed us (Dunstan Times) that the shearing this season has been very satisfactory, and that the returns from a number of sheds were fully np to the average. With one exception there had been the best of feeling between the men and their employees, and there were no signs of dissatisfaction among the men, who did their work well. Regarding the dispute that lately took place in one of the sheds in Otago our informant said that he was firmly convinced that it was all a mistake, and that had calmer counsels prevailed, the misunderstanding and subsequent dispute would never have occurred.

The Mark Lane Express of a late date says : — " At the Lord Mayor's Court, the Middlesbrough Margarine Company sued Mr C. Hogerseil, of Mark Lane, for £33 6s 7d, the price of four/sasks of Australian fat purchased from the defendant, which was not ' free from taste or smell ' and equal to sample. The fat was bought for üb.e purpose of being made into margarine. It was stated fc~at the fat was not that known as fine edible beef fat, but was Dutch fat, such as is used for frying fish in the East of London, and for making cheap pastry. Samples of the fat were produced in court, and his lordship told the jury they could taste them if thay like, but they respectfully declined. The jury found for the Margarine Company for the amount claimed. Judgment with costs." Up to November very favourable accounts continued to be transmitted to Europe of the prospects of the Argentine wool clip. The shearing season there is October and November, but shearing operations had been retarded by cold weather and heavy rains. The clip for the season is, nevertheless, expected to be the

heaviest on record, the estimate of the Jornal Agricultura comparing it with past years being as under : —

The French Permanent Commission on Customs values, whose annual duty of examining the course of trade for the purpose of fixing the official values to be attributed to French imports and exports, leads them into the examination of many details of interest, in their last report issued point out that whereas a few years ago French wool of average fineness, well sorted and combed, was quoted higher than Australian wool of a similar standard, which in turn was quoted above Buenos Ayres first quality, these positions have turned about. " First quality Buenos Ayres has attained the value of similar Australian, and very often the price of French first quality has fallen below those of the two other kinds." The causes of this change are, the report says, mauy :— " In a general way it may be said that the Plate wool has been much improved of recent years; the breeders of those countries have bought at high prices rams of pure merino races for regenerating their flocks, and the selections or crosses have been made with a view to the production and improvement of the wool. In France, on the other hand, as almost everywhere elss in Europe, the wool has been neglected and devotion given to the production of mutton and the yield in weight. The types compared are therefore no longer the same ; the type of Plate wool is superior, and the type of French wool is inferior to what it was formerly." Commenting on this portion of the report the Textile Mercury without ignoring the truth of some of the conclusions says that it represents only one side, and that the relative depreciation of Australian wool comes from the enormous production of this variety of the staple. As to the levelling of the prices of Plate and Australian wool, this is generally attributed to the first named being better adapted to the manufacture of tissues now in vogue. In reference to some peculiarities in Continental transactions in Plate wool, persons interested in quotations should give heed to the following advice tendered by our contemporary : — "It is necessary not to forget the action of ' time bargains ' iii the Continental wool markets. Whilst it is somewhat difficult to determine the exact extent of this influence, it seems that it exercises itself in maintaining the rates of Plate wool— the only kind of wools which form the object of time bargains of any importance. ; The combed wool exchanges of Roubaix,

Tourcoing, Leipsic, and Antwerp have contributed to this result, especially by directing, speculative efforts on to wools, since they offer an assured and easy outlet, making it sought after by merchants, and also by stocking a certain quantity of combed material which would otherwise be free."

Monday's North Otago Times says: — "The rain of Friday was expected to be of a most damaging character, but the north-west wind that blew during Saturday and yesterday was exactly the thing required to put right the mischief of Friday. The wind was pretty strong at times, but not strong enough to do any appreciable damage to the standing grain, while both the stooks and roads would be thoroughly dried."

A correspondent, writing from Patea to the Taranaki Herald, says: — "A couple of business farmers, who, I understand, are from Home, have bought 1200 acres of land from Mr Hendy, which he owned at the back of Alton, five to seven miles inland at Kakaramea. They will have 200 cows in milk next year. They have engaged a young colonial (Mr Fairweather) for four years to milk and take full charge of the dairy herd, for which he will be allowed half profits, residence, &c. His orders are to weed all duffers out, and to replace by good cows when he comes across them. The owners look after the marketing. If the Hurleyville factory recently started cannot take their milk, or cannot work -to satisfaction, these people will either take it over or erect a factory themselves."

The weights of wheat recently harvested in the various producing districts of South Australia ought to be acceptable information to farmers in this colony. The particulars are now available from reports in Adelaide journals of a meeting of the corn trade section of the Chamber of' Commerce en the 15th ulfc. to fix, as is the annual custom, the standard weight of wheat per bushel for the season. The secretary of the chamber stated that 150 persons — including the Farmers' Association, all the Agricultural Bureau?, and private firms — had been asked to forward samples. The samples sent into the Chamber of Commerce and their respective weights were — DarliDg and Son, various districts, 63^1b per bushel; Dunn and Co., various districts, 63£lb; Cave and Co., various districts, 631b; Harrison and Co., various districts, 641b ; Norman and Co., Terowie, 64£lb ; Norman and Co., Riverfcon, 64£lb ; Thomas and Co., 641b; Langlois, Yangala, 651b; Farmers' Association, Petersburg, 64£lb ; Farmers' Association, Hammond, 64ilb ; Bureau, Ardrossan, 63£lb; Bureau, Clare, 63£lb; Bureau, Redhill, 63tb; Bureau, Quorn, 621b; Bureau, Terowie, 64£lb ; Bureau, Fatersburgh, 63f lb ; Bureau, Hammond, 64^1b ; Bureau,

Eingswood, 63ilb ; Bureau, Wilmington, 644.1b ; Bureau, Pungebroo, 62£lb ; Bureau, Callington, 661b. Sundry— E. H. Watson, Quorn, 65£lb ; Yacka, 63£lb ; Burra, 64^1b ; PaskeviUe, 641b. The foregoing are the weights per measured bushel. The standard was eventually fixed by the corn trade section at 631b per bushel, this weight to rule for the season in trade transactions between seller and buyer, and the secretary was instructed to forward to the London and Liverpool Corn Trade Association 50 bags, each containing a quart, under the seal of the chamber, to be used for reference if required. Farmers here would do well to ascertain the weight per measured bushel of fully matured wheat grown by them, so that they may be enabled to estimate the percentage of flour production. Of course they should bear in mind that owing to the large proportion of moisture in New Zealand grown, particularly southern wheats, they will vary in weight from South Australian.

Mr John Drummond, late chief inspector of stock in the Wairarapa, now removed to the Hiwke's Bay district, was presented on Tuesday with an influentially signed testimonial and a purse of lOOsovs as a mark of esteem from the settlers of Wairarapa. The presentation was made by Mr Buchanan, M.H.R. The Masterton A. and P. Sooiety's ram fair was opened on Tuesday. Nearly 400 Lincolns were quitted at an average of sgs. The highest price was 26gs, given for a ram bred by Messrs Perry Brothers, Taratahi.

Reports coming in from the Nelson distriob show that the loss by Friday's storm is very severe. At Motueka alone it is estimated hops were damaged to the extent of £1600, and a garden near town was injured to the extent of £200.

A mean and cruel outrage was perpetrated at Timaru on Monday night. Three ouf of four cowo,belonging to a man named Whelan, enclosed in a small section in the borough, were slashed with a sharp instrument. One having a teat cut off and a long scar on the side, practically bled to death, while another had an ugly gash below the haunch, and a third a slight scar on its back. A few chains away Peacock and Geaney, butchers, had horses grazing for the night on the public school grounds, and one of them has a long gash on the flank, exposing its ribs and intestines. It is nofc expected that the animal's life will be saved. The injuries were probably done with a sharp hedge knife. The grain crops throughout the southern districts are, on the whole, pretty well up to the average. Where the crops are thin the grain is well developed, and the yield will be very fair all over. About Bdendale, Wyndham, Tuturau, and Mataura several paddocks show up remarkably well. On the Bdendale estate, particularly, there are several fields which will thresh

heavily. These are on land following turnips, and well limed. Unfortunately the rain of last week has " laid " the crop a good deal. Harvest is already started, and in a fortnight will be general. About Gore, Charlton, and Waimumu the crops are fair, but the proportion of good is less noticeable tha nfarther south, In Chatton, Waikaka, and Merino Downs the returns will be good and the grain of excellent quality. The same thing may be said with regard to Pukerau, Wairuna, Clinton, and Waiwera. In the Clutha and Tokomairiro districts some trouble has been experienced with the Hessian fly. Crops untouched by this pest should come out fairly well, but nothing extra. The grass seed crop is heavy throughout all the districts mentioned, but the wet stormy weather has retarded threshing out of the stook or the stacking of it. The seed will therefore, except where saved in good order, be much darker than usual, and the quantity harvested will mean an over-supply for local markets.

The turnip crop everywhere south is looking remarkably healthy, and promises a huge supply of winter feed , One of the best of many remarkably good crops is to be seen at Edendale, on the Land Company's estate. The paddock is really a picture for luxuriant growth and evenness all over. All drill turnips, with indeed a rare exception, are very forward, and turnipthinning has had to be pushed on vigorously to keep pace with the growth.

Mr Hull, stock inspector, of Balclutha, was in Milton on Tuesday arranging to'have a paddock of wheat reserved wherein to liberate the Hessian fly puparia which the Agent-general has shipped per the Gothic. This insect is understood to be the natural enemy of the Hessian fly, and as several fields in the Tokomairiro district have been devastated by this pest the experiment will be keenly watched.

The Geraldine County Acclimatisation Sooiety has just received (says the Press) a consignment of cereals calculated in a year or two to furnish a nice change of seed for their district. There are in all 13 parcels. The varieties are perpetuated hybrid red chaff (a white wheat), selected Hunter's, perpetuated white chaff (a red wheat), perpetuated April wheat (somewhat resembling Russian or square head), winter barley (for spring feeding), giant winter rye, winter oats, pedigree chevalier barley (a really choice sample), perpetuated gold Thorpe barley, perpetuated black Tartar oats, white Tartar oats, Waterloo oats, and Scotch potato oats.

1890-1 LB7l-2 1892-3 L 8934 Tons Wool. ... 134,000 ... 155,000 ... 147,000 ... 164,000 Gold Value, 41,700,000d0] 42.900,000d01 37,400,000d0l 38,300,000d0]