COUNTRY ITEMS.
The Tapanui Farmers' Club, at the instigation of the Waitahuna Fanners' <Jlub, has convened a meeting for June 20 to discuss the question pi calling on the Government for astiiitatice in supplyiug wire netting for rabbitproof fences. A correspondent in the Wyndham Farmer ttrongly recommends the common berberry as a hedge plant. It would be as well before farmer* take thiß advice to remember that the. berberry is peculiarly subject to rust, and that' consequently it is inadvisable to put it in the vicinity of wheat orops. » The Edendale correspondent of the Southland News declares " dehorning pales into ineizniftcanco when compared with the brutal practice of ■paying. I have been informed that out of a mob of 40 cows operate-1 upon in this district some five succumbed, or equal to a death rate of 12} per cent, of the number operated upon. Now, this death rate may"" be unusually high, for some unknown reaaon ; yet, if my , information v correct, and I have every reason to believe it 1$ co, such an appalling death rate, or even a leis one, shows the practice is most cruel, and steps should be at onca taken to have it put down ; and of the subjects that ahould engage tha atten> tion of the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals, I say emph tic&lly spaying « one of them." , •■
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Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 25
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COUNTRY ITEMS.
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 25
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