STOCK AND GRAZING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3555, 2 May 1922, Page 9

STOCK AND GRAZING NOTES.

Weekly Stock Sales. Monthly (continued). Bn r npide, Wednesdays. I Duntroon, 2nd WodneeAddington, Wednopdavs. day. W aiareka Railway June- Woodlands. 3rd Friday tion, Tuesdays. Milton, 2nd Tuesday. Wallacetown, Tuesdays. Balfour, 3rd 'Thursday. ThornGury, Ist Friday. Fortnightly. Duntroon, 2nd WtdnesRiversdale. Fridays day. Ashburton. Tuesdays. Otautau, 2nd Friday. Iferiot, Thursdays.’ Biversdale, 3rd Friday. Winton, Thursdays. Waikaka, last Friday. Wyndham. Thursdays. Olydevalc, last Tuesday. CUnton ITnrsdays. Periodically as Balolutha, Fridays. Advertised. Gore, Tuesdays. r.umsdcn, Mosstmm, Monthly. Orcpuki, Mai u lira, Palmerston, 4t-h Thurs- Otaec Central S’nlcs day. Waikruuiti, BiverWinton, 4th Tuesday. ton, Ngapara, and OTAGO. Although the temperature has been up and down, the weather generally has been pleasant, but not conductive to rapid harvesting work in Otago. A great lot of the grain is coining, in discoloured, and germinated wheat and oat samples are far too common to be pleasant. The snow which fell on file hills in Central Otago last week has practically disappear- d owing to the ware rains, and at present it seems more settled. BERNSIDE MARKET. There was a yarding of 2878 fat sheep at Burnside, compared with 2377 the previous week, the quality generally fairly representative of the province, inclusive of a number of ewes, which sold particularly well. '1 here was a good sale at rates barel'v lip to list week’s values, although towards the chose there was not much variance; mutton sold at round 41. i per lb. The entry of fat lambs numbered 986, as against 726 last week, (he quality ranging from fair to good. The d. mund was keen throughout, and value,- were better I ban the previous week by 9d a head, lamb making to AVi per !b. A yard of fine uoollcd 4. 6. and fu 11 - ino"th wethers, not to forward, mad- 15s 2d. arid a yard of crossbreds 16s 2d. The entry of fat caitle totalled 310, as against 171 the previous week, the quality being fair to good. The demand was quiet, and Tahirs at opening were 10s a head easier, and before the sale finished fully £1 a head down on last week’s prices, beef making l to 22s 6<l por 1001 b. The yanling of .store cattle was a large ©ne f over 200 head, including aorne

of all classes. The demand was only fair and by no means lively at anj’ time, a pen of three to four-year-old bullocks made £7 15s, three-year-olds £5 to £6 14s, good two-year-olds, shorthorn crosses and forward £3 7s, three to four-year-old Ayrshire steers £4 9s, best conditioned cows made £4 to £4 14s and sold fairly well. There was a good demand for fat pigs at an advance of 5s per head, the entry being small, while stores also sold relatively well. ADDINGTON YARDS. The yarding of fat sneep at Addington was a fairly large one, a big proportion being ewes. Values improved for heavy weight sheep, while rates for lighter oaroase sheep sold at unchanged rates. Slome 6800 fat lambs jyere penned, a number of them lacking finish. There was quite a good sale if sornew’hat under last week’s values, lamb selling at round B a d per lb, and ranging from 21s to 31s 9d a head. The store sheep forward wore representative of all classes, and although the sale was a little uneven, t here was a general clearance at rates much on a parity with those of the previous week The yarding of fat cattle was large, but the quality was somewhat indifferent. Hie pick of the entry sold very well, but unfinished animals were easier; beef was estimated to make up to 30s per 1001 b, extra good bullocks making £l4 to £l6 12s 6d. The yarding of store cattle had not much attention, with tire exception of good dairy heifers, which sold at £5 to £6 for fair sized lines. The demand for ordinary dairy cows in profit was not brisk, although September calvers had inquiry. Both fat and store pigs met with a demand much on a parity with rates obtainable a week ago. i NORTH ISLAND STOCK VALUES. ■ G ?i nor tl ly the , demand for store stock in the North Island shows some improvement on rates ruling in the early part of last montn. In th e Auckland district the previous week’s values are well maintained in loverty Bay mixed aged wethers realised up to 17s, fair sorts of breeding ewes 19s & £ll 10s - IIJ the Wairarapa lambs 11s 6d to 14s 9d, two-tooths 14s to iOs ou, medium sorts from 7s 6d, two and tour-tooth ewes 23s to 27s two-vear-old l l r r , S > 2 15 ?‘° , £5 9s ’ two-year-old' heifera 52 l ' s V° x ’ 4, three-jear-old steers £4 t-o £b. yearlings mixed sexes, £2 14s. 1„ the V ungaiiu l-i ! eilciin g areas sheep of the better c-Lss are not. offering at all freely. in Tiranaki tile same remark applies and the number will probably sho£ P considerable .hiinkage in the next returns. In Hawke’s Bay. there is ample feed, and all stock are footing well, wethers selling at up to 21s 6d, mixed sex lambs i3s to 14s 6d. four-year-old ,n nil) 21s 6d, fair full mouths 14s to los, 2 a -year-olcl steers £3 15s, forward to r -£7" ,year "° cows in P r °fit £4 STOCK NOTES. The fact that the quotations for frozen meat in the Homeland Keeps steady is evidence enough that store stock have their relative values here, and Otago graziers at present see no reason why they should not mcKe the most oi the teed u ...on is evu v where at the moment. Both store lambs and wethers are very saleable at rates mg 11 we f k a ffo- Cattle, on the other hand as jet show no appreciation, and were it not for the ample teed mignr, , OJ .„ However, it cannot last, and there may come a change for the hotter when least exported. J", ’, he f at , shpp P action at Burnside on ihmsday last some extra heavy prime, wellclad wethers made 35s 6.1-they wore -n- t ill by Air Malcolmii Roberts.m, ’of Tapamb while pennmgs of well-wooll-d, well-finished lambs from Aicssrs (i. S. INtU t.'Mvi i( < ' merburn)’ R. Woodhouse (Roxburgh), *A' Mllaren (Goodwood), and Wm Ay.son (Waikaka) realised 325. 31s 3d. 31s ' 3i s respectively. The top price made' for bullocks was £ls 2s 6d for an excellent topped weighty animal sold on account of lv King (Clydevale). It is satisfactory to learn that Argentine meat importers have decided to combine to restrict imports into England. Our frozen beef mav yet get a “look in,” The Wood I a nils meat works, under (lie auspices of the new company, is continuing with the success gained by '.Mr Ta-it for so many years (-ays an exchange). The works are in full swing with beef and rabbits l! is a favourable time to deal with cattle’ when quality animals may be purchased at the low ruling rates. . During March 500 head were dealt with, the quality heiti'Jbetter than ever before, as i.s proved by the amount: of tallow heino twice as much as usual. At present some 25 hands are employed, all of whom are shareholders; so that when working for tiie company they are serving their own interests, too —an incentive to them to do their best-. How the Columbia, a new type of sheep, was developed bv the United States Dopartment, of Agriculture, will be told graphically in the Government- exhibit at the International Live Stock Exposition fn Chicago

(say - the Breeders’ Gazette). This new type, which is said to be showing value for wool and mutton production on the range, was produced bv crossing the Lincoln and Rambouillet. Experiments were begun in 1912 near Laramie, Wyo., and later transferred to the Government experimental station near Dubois, Idaho, where the work was continued on a 28,000-acre ranch. Mature Columbia rams averaged 2001 b to 2501 b, and ewes from 1251 b to 1501 b. The fleeco in 1920 averaged 101 b, and the actual shrinkage only 48 per cent. The wool graded three-eighths and quarter blood combing, a very saleable wool in normal times. Last spring the number of lambs born alive averaged 98 per 100 ewes. At an average age of three and two-third months the lambs weighed 721 b on the range. It i.s satisfactory to note that Germany, which, in- pre-war days, imported somewhere about 400 sheep per year from England, is again becoming a customer (says the Mark Lane Express). Fourteen head were shipped in 1921 to that country at £3l 7s Id.- The Argentine took 44*3 at £34 2s sd, as against 1422 at £45 4s 8d in 1920. Uruguay took 136 at £29 3s 9d, as against 244 at £45 13s 2d. The United States and Canada imported in 1921 92 and 87 respectively, as against 309 and 342 in the previous year, a striking confirmation of the hardship inflicted upon the flockowning industry bv reason of their import regulations, which, if an outbreak of foot-and-mouth occurs at Land’s End, stops any shipment throughout the length and breadth of England and Wales, but readily allows the shipment from Scotland provided the •animals are one inch north of the border line. Some time ago prb.ss were offered by the W immera Inland Freezing Co. for the best 20 fat lambs suitable for export (says the Australasian). The lambs entered for the competition were exported to England, and a cable message has been received by the company from its London agent stating that they were regarded as the best Australian lambs seen in London. The prizes have been awarded as follow; —First, £4O and a silver cup, J. H. Hauesler, Wa cracknabeul, Shropsh're-cross lambs ; second. £lO and a gold medal, Longerenong Agricultural College, Shropshire-cross lambs; third, £5 and a silver medal, Henry Hately, Murtoa, merino-cross lambs. Oressenhall Molly, a Red Poll cow, yielded 18,0241 b milk in 300 days in England, with an average of four per cent, butter-fat, equivalent to 7211 b butter-fat. ITer seven months’ old bull calf was purchased- by Viscount Folkstone for his herd at. Longford, Wiltshire, at lOOOgns. DRAUGHT HORSE ITEMS. The championships at the Scottish Stallion Show in March last disclosed a series of triumphs for Mr A. Montgomery’s great, four-year-old Fyvie Sensation (20042). First there was the competition for the Cawdor Cup. The animals in the ring, for this were Lord Forteviot’s colt and Craigie Sundial; Fiashdale and Morrisdale; Vim and Demonstrator; Fyvie Sensation and The Ally. The award went to Fyvie Sensation, with Vim reserve. Next came the competition for the Brvdon £2CO Shield, and again the award went to Fyvie Sensation, with Vim reserve. The final was for the Challenge Cup, on which competition there is no restriction as to former winners, and the award wont —(x/ Fyvie Sensation ; (2) Kismet; (o) Vim. Ah- Montgomery’s great son of Hiawatha Again has no more worlds to conquer. He has won all the trophies of the Glasgow Stallion Show, the Paisley Gold Cup, and all the other trophies of the H. and A. S. Show. The King has presented a new Challenge Cup this year to the Shire Horse Society, England, and the first winner whs Mrs Stanton, with (he stallion Harboro’ Nulli Seeundus. This is also the first occasion on which a lady has won the championship with an exhibit in the stallion classes. The female championship and cup went to a four-year-old mare, Cross way's Forest May by Friar Tuck. At the Varra Glen Show. Victoria. Mr W. M. Black, the well-known Coldstream breeder of Clydesdales, won a number of prizes with entrants of some interest to New Zealand breeders. The winner in the dry mare class, Princess Bute, is a four-year-old bay by Shunter (imp.) ex a mare by Barou Bute (imp.), and is described as an exceptionally fine specimen of the Clydesdale. Shanter, at the time of writing, is owned by an Otago breeder. Mr Janies Parties, of Cherry Farm, Waikounifi, where he is likely to pile up fresh laurels. LAND LEGISLATION OF 1921-22 SESSION. The following is a brief summary of the land legislation affecting rural interests which was enacted during the parliamentary session of 1921-22: Laud haws Amendment Act. Part I gives effect to certain recommendations made by the Southern Pastoral Lands Commission, 1919, which was appointed to inquire into the best manner of improving the conditions of settlement of pastoral

lands, etc. The principal provisions of this part of the Act are as follows:—The maximum term that may be fixed for a pastoral lease is increased from twentyone to thirty-five years. Pastoral licenses for the occupation of Crown lands and leases of education reserves or other endowments comprising pastoral lands administered by Land Boards, granted for a term of not less than fourteen years, may be extended for a further term of fourteen years at the rents reserved by existing leases or licenses. Lender certain conditions the freehold can be acouired of such pastoral runs as, in the opinion of the Land Board, are of no greater area than i.s sufficient for the. maintenance of the lessees and their families. Power is given to postpone rents of pastoral runs in the same manner as they can be postponed under other tenures. In the ease of pastoral runs suitable far subdivision, the determination to subdivide must be made, when practicable, not later than two years before the expiration of licenses. The principal provisions of Part II of the Act aie as follows:—With the object of alleviating hardship owing to a general financial stringency, and of enabling smaller instalments to be charged, the term of a deferred-payment license can be extended to a period of twenty-four years. In order that revaluations of small grazing runs of which the leases are expiring can be postponed until values are stabilised, leases of small grazing runs may l>e extended for a further period of five years. This provision is restricted to leases which will expire within five years from the date of the passing of the Aot, and to certain expired leases which had not been renewed. Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Amendment Act. —The main purpose of this Act i.s to prescribe the procedure and provide the necessary machinery for the realisation of the estates or interests of discharged soldiers which may come into possession of the Crown through foreclosure, etc. Provision is also made whereby, with the object of easing tlie financial position of those' soldiers who have selected their holding on deferred-payment licenses, such licenses can be exchanged for renewable leases. Power is given to postpone the payment of instalments of principal and interest due under mortgages. Power is also given whereby such provisions of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act as mav be defined can be applied, when the time is deemed opportune, t— -r-aons who. while domiciled in New Zealand, have served beyond New Zealand in the King’s Forces in any war other than the recent war with Germany.—Journal of Agriculture.