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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17068, 28 September 1929, Page 11

Dairy farmers and sheepmen would now welcome some warm showery weather to bring away the spring feed, which is later than usual this season, owing to the cold winds prevailing for some weeks, writes a correspondent from Takapau, Hawke’s Bay.

A ewe that has given birth to 22 lambs in eight years is numbered among the flock of Mr. C. J. Ilawken, Mokoia. The ewe is a pure-bred Lincoln, 10 years old. Three times she had twins, four times triplets, and once quadruplets. * * * #

Pigs are playing havoc with the young iambs in the Waiawa district, reports the Opotiki Herald, Five boars killed were found to be gorged with lambs. The lambing this year has been an extra good one, that, is provided the ravages of the wild pigs do not get Out of hand. ' ' * .

The season to date has uot been a very prolific one so far as the milk supply is concerned, writes a Waikato correspondent. There is a general fall in the quantity compared with the corresponding period last year. This is doubtless due to the very cold snap experienced in South Auckland during the past three months.

The dairying season just past has been a most successful one as far as output is concerned, reports the Taranaki News. No less than 24,1(5.) tons of cheese and 1570 tons of butter were, produced by the 24 co-opera-tive dairy’ companies operating in South Taranaki. The output is the product of 50 separate factories, the average being 514.7 tons. Some, of course, produce double this amount under one roof.

Progress of the Raugitaiki during the last decade has been sound, permanent and rapid. There are now on the Raugitaiki lands farms of great productivity. Two farms of 100 acres each are' actually carrying 123 milking cows. There are now many large farms carrying up to 700 cows and the whole area is giving a high average of production to the acre. The time.is coming when Rotorua country ami the Raugitaiki Valley will be united by farm lands, to their, mutual advantage. —Rotorua Chronicle. *•* # * Mr.-M. McKinnon, a New Zealander now acting as assistant-general man ager of the Teka Land Co of England in South America, was in Danm virkc recently. He has been buying stud sheep iu the. South Island for export to the Argentine. Chatting about cautions in that country, he said beef production was on the decline; due to. the cutting up of the big estates and the swing over to dairying. He ventured the opinion that in 10 years’ time South America would be a serious rival of New Zealand in the dairying world. —Hawke’s Bay Herald.

“The Dominion’s fnt lamb trade has increased very rapidly during recent years,’.’ . a Waiiotara. farmer stated the other day. He said it was a trade which had to be fostered, ‘find that could not be done if every farm were reduced to 20 or 30 acre's., He considered that a too intense prosecution of a closer settlement policy would mean danger to the fat lamb tj-.uli. He- agreed with closer settlelm iu in the, main, '"it insisted that prices had to be reasonable, and, above all,, settlers had to be of the right calibre. Even under the best of ’conditions/ inexperienced farmers would never survive for long.