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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 July 1907, Page 3

I Enquiries at the- Taieri and Peninsula I dairy fat-tor)- give an idea of the manner | in which the dairy farmer? are suffering I from the present dry season. For the I month of May. l'.KXi, the company received 518.132 gallons of milk from its [supplier*, and for the tjame month of this year only .'ltrf.lXO gallons were received; showing the heavy shortage of lnt.fwi gallons for one month. This practically paralyses the company's export trade, the whole of its output being required for the l'lenl market.

In the ivurse of some observations on a mysterious epidemic among bees in the Isle of Wight, which recently formed the subject of investigation, the Hoard of Agriculture states that the disease seems to have first broken out in the summer of lflOt, to have spread wry rapidly in IM6. and at the present time to be prevalent over almost the whole island. The death of the bees seems to be brought alwut finally by blood poisoning. The demand for nitrogenous food «ems to be one of the most marked charactriftics of the disease, but why the demand should arise is a question which it is not at present possible fo answer.

| A contributor to the Pacific Homestead says:—As I hare had three years' experience in the growing of kale for rows, I can safely say that it beats anything that I ever got hold of, and everything on the farm likes to eat it. As I saw a short time ago one of our Homestead readers wanting to know all about our kale. | will say this much about it: T do uot think any one can say too much for the kale as a cow food. A Wairarapa vendetta between two neighbors, which has been pursuing its course for fully a quarter of a century, has lately received another impetus, through one of the principals catching his enemy's gue-t duck-shooting on forbidden ground. The fracas which ensued has led to further legal hostilities, involving in one ease an action for £2600 damages for malicious prosecution.