FARMING NOTES

Patea Mail, Volume XLVI, 7 September 1923, Page 3

FARMING NOTES

Four good waggon horses aud a milk waggon are to be offered at the next Waverley sale. The Wellington Farmers’ Meat Co., in liquidation, now' being reconstructed as the Wairarapa Frozen Meat Co., is making good progress. Considerable capital has been subscribed, and it is evident that the necessary amount will be forthcoming. The works will open to freeze for farmers on their own account.

Plant some trees no tv, to afford yoiu stock shelter from the wTirm summer sun. The animals arc greatly benefited by this being done, and the appearance of the farm greatly improved. The system whereby a fanner can bo put off the land by the mortgagee, who is not made to work the land, is a wrong’one, said Mr Fear at the Chamber of Commerce meeting in Masterton. Farms caused to lie idle in this way were a waste asset. Quite a number oi: dairy farmers in the Oamaru district are growing lucerne as a supplementary -fodder for their stock.

The manager of the Waicaki Dairy Co. has expressed the opinion that cheese will become more proiitublo than butter in.the coming season. “Ask a farmer for the analysis of his manures, and what can ho tell you'?" said a prominent Mastertou tanner. “That is what education in agriculture will remedy.’,’ The lambing on a well-known stud farm near Mastertou commenced with four sets of twins and one of triplets. If this average were maintained, the difficulty would be to find foster mothers.

Some of the settlers in the neighbourhood of Oamaru arc solving .the problem of disposal of scrub cows by fattening them off, slaughtering on the farm, and using them for home consumption.

A movement is on foot in Ractihi to establish an experimental farm in the district.

The Mauricovillc Dairy Co. shareholders must be a happy family. Tho circular convening the annual meeting says that afternoon tea will be provldod’at the meeting, A successful farmer who plants extensively for shelter and timber stated that tho main factor in good results is that in growing all pines and macro enrpa he leans them at an angle of 45 degrees away from the prevailing winds. When strong and well established they straighten themselves. ‘ ‘ Some people have the idea that the Farmers' Union is fighting only for the wool and frozen meat interests. Wo want to show them that we arc out to assist every branch of the fanning industry, large or small,'' stated a speaker at the meeting of the Noiih Otago Eoxcutivc of the Farmers' Union last, week.

A fanner in the Oamaru district stilted that lucerne-growing might not bo the success that some people had expected. He had lived in Queensland for many years, and had seen lucerne in that country become a failure. After it was once ploughed up it was found that it could not be grown. Wheat for supplementary fodder had taken tho place of lucerne in many parts of Queensland.