AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.
With the skins at 7a 6d> each for best, "possum-farming" will be one of the businesses of the Australian holding an area off which all the eucalyptus has not been taken.
At a conference between head's of freezing companies in Hawke's Bay (New Zealand) and farmers who are discontented with the prices of fat stock, Mr W. Nelson stated that his firm last year lost 2s 6d each of the lambs handled by them. Mr Ouddie (dairy commissioner) and Mr Singleton (his second in command) are conducting a campaign in the north in favour of the formation of cow-testing assoc:ations. They are at present in the Waikato district to establish an association, at Cam* bridge. One 'is toi bo established' at Paillmerston North for the Manawatu district. Messrs Ouddie and Singleton are expected to visit the South Island on a similar mission shortly. It is to be hoped they will be able to arouse dairy farmers from their present, apathy about this matter. A Waitotara farmer states that seagulls ore proving very troublesome this lambing season. Several lambs have had their eyes picked out by them.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 20
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