AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

At a meeting of the Otago Trades Council on the- 15t-h a letter was received from the Minister of Labour intimating that tho council's resolution in rega.rd to the Farm Labourers' Accommodation Act was receiving the attention of the Government. The largest shipment of butter sent forward this season from New Zealand to South Africa was shipped by the Means from Wellington. Tho consignment amounted to 2000 boxes, and will be transhipped at Sydney for Durban and Capetown. While local authorities continue to expend large sums of money on the purchase of heads and eggs of email birds, the results, says the Secretary for Agriculture, are almost worthless, owing to the absenceof systematic effort. The department proposes to introduce natural enemies. In his evidence in regard to the dairy regulations Mr E. Clifton, Ohoef Inspector of Stock', said there were 4650 dairies ia the Dominion supplying milk for city consumption. The Scottish Farmer says:— "Of 22,000

More Planet, Jr., agricultural and aardeii implements are in use in the world than any other three makes put together.— Nimmo and Blair.

boxes of New Zealand beef landed in Glasgow, tbe inspectors seized and condemned 11,000 as unfit for human food — a nic^ state of a'Qairs, -«surely ! How many thousand boxes of rotten stuff have been allowed to pass before. Mr Trotter's men became Active? The Glasgow local authority, is going to set apart two inspectors for .special duty among imported ' beef in/ boxce." 'A iarraer -of 20 years' -experience- gives it a3 his opinion to the Otautau Standard ♦hat in no previouu year has grass been so far advanced at this time of the year as at present. Oate have appeared greet above ground in 11 days from sowing, while the usual time is rarely under 18 days to •fchree /weeks. The demand for good dairy cows (says the Taranaki News) has been so great during tho past month throughout the greater portion of the Hawke'3 Bay. Taranaki, and "Wellington provinces that it is believed that fully a thousand more would 'have been absorbed had they been available, without materially affecting the prices that ruled.' Mr H. C. Cameron, "produce commissioner for New Zealand, attend-ad t'ac congress of beekeepers recently held, and gave an address on what is being done in the Dominion in the way of apiculture. H<* mentioned that the New Zealand Government is giving attention to the matter of breeding queen bees, and said that a race of first-class honey-gath-aring bees, poeseseing disease-resisting qualities, is being bred on one af . the Government experimental farms. These queens will be avail- • abL ' for distribution amongst the beekeepers of the Dominion. At Boort'show, "Victoria, the championship was won for the third time in succession, by th© New Zealand-bred draught stallion Tarn O'S&anter, owned by Mr John Roberts, of "Woosang. The horse has only been in Tictoria a little over two years.