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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17144, 28 December 1929, Page 11

“It took tire wool from 350 sheep to pay my county rates this year, and yet 1 have not a metalled road,” remarked Cr. Law at the meeting of the W'hangomomona County Council. V * * * There is a. shortage of cattle suitable for summer fattening in the Wanganui district, and, according to one farmer, some stock-growers are using grass mowers to keep the feed down and the pastures in order. An unprecedented demand fgr these machines has been made of late. # # # * A number of fab bullocks have been delivered to freezing works from the Wanganui and Waverley districts during the past week or two. Some have gone to Waitara, bub the majority to Imlay. A Maxwell farmer has received advice that prospects for New Zealand meat on the British market in the coming season are bright.

The Woodville Dairy Co. received over 1,000,0001 b. of milk at its factory, for November. This is tjve largest anjount received in a month for a number of years. It may ,be mentioned that the number of suppliers has not increased, the increased production being due entirely to the adoption of better farming methods. * * * * Allegations that hardship is imposed on certain farmers by the regulations which necessitate dipping cattle in the North every time prior to offering for sale at public yards were made at an executive meeting of the Auckland Provincial branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. It was decided to make representations thatdipping only bo compulsory when cattle are to be sent out of a district. It was stated by several members that proper farming and a free use of fertilisers went a long way to combating the tick. # * # « The control of ragwort, a plant pest that has been causing trouble in Otago and Southland and other districts, is now to be the subject of extensive experiment by the Agricultural Department in conjunction with the Cawthron Institute.. Men have been engaged to liberate the eggs of the cinnabar moth in areas thad. are badly infected with ragwort. The pest is peculiarly troublesome in the Kelso, Knkarewa, Gatlins, arid Winton districts. Mr. 11. B. Tennant, fields superintendent, is supervising the experiment.