AGRICULTURAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12583, 21 January 1905, Page 3 (Supplement)

AGRICULTURAL.

- Th» fallowing list of stock sales should "" be handy for reference . -Alfanry.—As airangad feu a Monday). ' FaMe.—As arranged (on & Monday*. Ueralttme.—Every Wednesday, at "Mun- . . ddl'« yard, and at Farmers' yards. , alternate Mondays. St- Andrews.—Alternate Jridays. wadaolme.—Alternate Fridays. Twaka.—F alternate Tnes- , _ days. .Washdyie. JVjitnightly, alternate Tuesdays. tCMiutc—First Friday in month.

ifcsgatiUng the future of tlie wool market atJßctne, recent advices received in Christt&Tttch from London state:—" We the teeseat prospects will be maintained if the Kusso-Japanese war contiiHSs. If the war ends, crossbred# wfi thcline 25 per cent." .Mr An*reir McJltrlane, of Alford Forest, Asihteto* ioa imported two purebred ■■Anb -corgis, a stallion rising two .years ftnd a CWo-jear-old filly. Both are band' greys. The 'colt is named ifefelawy JWtan, and the filly MaiuzAhS feeid. The Jotrrney from their r#ittYe place in Arabia occupied four tte&ths. The animals were procured tfeiWlgh Mr Solomon George, of,, ttguLcMftk, who hails from Arabia. » «F »a$- of an object-Itason t6 New Z%a- ---: Wsd dairymen (states the WeSington there will aft Wchibition ,of ; -wwr of unusual interest at the trfa. The Nsfional -iliilij, Association is arranging to have Basra of -finest Banish, Siberian, Algenfenk «u| English butter sentto New «se*u»4 to be exhibitedwith NewZ&kad ' - r the sake of .OTniparisoiK .speaking, to a "t)siajr Nfefrs 1 ' reporter at New Plymouth, M?. KinseDa fcghly praised the foAoty managers in this colony, excellent manner in whidi they girt! rt ? e a &fed : —"I have traveaea- au rottnd the wdrld, including Denmark; aaj I inak'e the statement without narvw contradiction that New Zealand,! Ww to England a package which would' llot be. outclassed bj any count'**- Ifi tie *<*riaJ 1 " Last year, accord&g to Messrs Moritz- '?£§*** cban seed saved on Banks Pen- « -insula.. Roughly, the value of this seed - put dowix at £75,000, while the ctist was about rather i^h^stimate— leaving a. net fcroSl '6f . Banks Penmsttlft has a ijopulatzcm of about3GoQ, and of these probably , ?°t MX) are d&ectly mteitetfed mtfececksfeot returns.Coupft t£ft feffibtot ,W™ «oi» daixj proSutieaM the selling £* sheep and cattle with the profits,' : .ntmr the cocfcsfdbt crop, ft Been-that tit Peninsula flintier is not ill his circnSSatances. IWK the' Dairy Commissioner, • Zealand in a fair way io comalmost anycountiy in the world. - « Dottingrkv he says, they ire labouring " cr ? nt conditions from thoß3 obm New Zealand. "We are si* ' *** from the British market, and the Argentina Republic is only about sixteen y. gev«iteen pays ;but we are beating the -Argaatme people, hands down with regard wjpttce. we cannot compete with Seamark is owing to the fact that the -Donah people ship their batter direct to ■■the same purchaser on the London and Scotch market year alter year, and build I 2? * which brings them larger prices. J?? nan who purchases that butter; says r v.: pay a penny a pound more for it if I *4 B e t it regularly,- because it.is jtood.' What 3o we do here! We-send tie butter . jtO'Onejnan one year; and thi next year we'pend it to somebody SSsL The people - w not gefc to know oftr brands and quality on all the • markets of :' " When at Some, I saw New Zea--fester lying on the floor of a Tooley Itttet; produce store which was thirteen teMths.old. A gentleman icakft t» n& and . Here is one of Sotit ptefeln'ent brands \ f. 1 r 1 " of New SSaland, and it is I saitf, 'ot jfonder!' ' ' •Jtaeta fei®sJ'3 in the vicinity, of Masterton store lambs for fattening pur- • r l?WB® tl&"8«wwt- The custoinf with many Mnaj-holders is to grow,a "certain amount jof raws for fattening lambs ea<i year. The _ rtorefctmbs arepurchased from the breeders • ■ -i- off,, and; placed' on thß jnirket. tort year (says Timfes") l» fanners m&de. ah average ptofit of «baut As for.faffening tbe lambs, the price . pajd fer stores beiti# about -Bs," while the lambs have advanced about Is, the farmer <mly gets . about & for fattenmg, this fn- - treased price of stores making up lie differ- .. 'VIHAkAustralian wheat is this season • reported to be of splendid quality, > and - tha- Adelaide Chamber 'o£ Commerce' has ttretf the standard at 631b per bushel, as • agiunst' 61 jib last year. ... Soutk Aifitralua wheat is always heW in high feitfifia- - tionJbQf &x buyers in £ngland> and is partKaiWOT' raluable to millers th&re for mix- | *"8 yjj"» the softer grain gitowtt m cdlder cojuiUies. ~ A feature of this harvest was that SEveral crops rate over 50 bushels to the .acre,. ■while a fairly larg© number rs'lztmoi mote than 20 bush«os. But some - ciqps in tite &Jr areas that received bnly -«i ,?cantj" rainfall did :iiot go over t<TO ... inH&sfe'to the acre. - - ■ . It; is • the intention cf ihfe IS&trSouth Wales" Miners' Assp'ctatfoß~Eo inaugurate a No. 1 ruitTrng itsiittd, independent of the. atantosti " 'sn«4.wtt 4t present forty-three steamers -<lirec«y engaged in the; New Zealand froU& meat trade, , with, a capacity, at a low . estnna"of 3,600,000 sheep cafcasts. Av - smamjf : that these' boata ttake' Wo • trips; m the .Jtiab, whiicfe 'a, "course,' be■four tofr ttarl:, wis haVe EtyailaMe shipping at tbe present taom&nt. fcr at. least 7,200,- - OQO-carcase's Jer "amtttm. „ - t - .It- trill, be a surprise to many to know Several of the best brands of Scotch winakjr are manufactured from New Zealand brigbt, ITltf standard cocksfoot seed. The fanners of the "United States could irap .the proceeds ;of the corn crop harXtstesdr in 1904 pay the national debt, the Interest :thereon for one year, and still have _ enough left to pay a considerable portion flf Government's yesaly. expenses." Thesn wtre tite words of Secretary James Wilmv chief of the United States Agri-' csbsral Department, while discussing the Work bE his department and the value of ' the crop that has just been harvested. The 1904 .harvest stands.', out as the greatestand the most profitable that has ever been garner*d even in sueh a country "of such immensity and r chnjss a« fi.c* United - • States. Its total value is set down as : cfcse dn oue biL'ion pounds. The main items - Wh—Cotß valued at £200,000,000, cotton - valued at at £120,000,000, wheat and hay (combined value) £200,000,000. Then there an records of barky, - potatoes, an<L rice, and a- tremendous increase in the rvalue of live stock. "Yon want some comparison, to enable you to fully-grasp the signi- " ficance of these figures/' said the Secretary as "he proceeded. "All of the gold mines of titer entire world have not produced since "Cohimbus discovered America a greater value of gold than the farmers of this , country have produced in wealth in two Tears. . This year's product is over six Times the amount of the capital stock of all national" banks; it comes within threefourths of a billion dollars of equalling the : - manufactures of 1900, less the cost of material : used; it is twice the sum of our exports and imports for a year; it is three timfes the gross earnings from the operations'from the railways; it is three and ahalf times the value of all minerals produced in this country-, including coal, iron Our farmers ar*mnr in a better position than hefore. Take the'basking returns of tßfrpurely agricultural States such as lowa, Kansasj and Mississipi, and it will be seen that the deposits increased 164 per cent. in.lawa, 219 per cent, in Kansas, 301 per cent, in Mississippi, as against- 91 per cent, in the United States as a whole.'" In most districts, according to Home papers, the potato crop in Ireland has been reduced by 50 or 60 per cent, at least by diseaae. * 'lh the JVest the outlook is very gloomy. In some districts out of every tfiree tons dug, one ifm of the potatoes is bad, ruined by the' disease. Not a farmer can be Jound in Mayo who- has anything: Kke a medium potato crop this season, and all complain of the great havoc wrought by the disease. In these centres the normal condition of the people is poverty, and within three months at the outside tbeir position will be pitiable. In many cf the ' agricultural centres where the tuber is "ths main crop there will be a famine during the winter months.

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Regarding the. anticipated improvements m the demand for frozen meat during the present year, Mr Gilbert Anderson, of tb«

[ Christchbrch ShAt Co., mforihed a representative of the "Weekly 'Press" that the high prices realised on the London market had been fully anticipated by the operators here, and farmers have been receiving prices far in advance of any that have been current. Supplies of both mutton and lamb are coming to hand in a satisfactory ! manner, and if prices are maintained and Weddel's anticipations are correct, it should certainly a good season, for farmers. Unfortunately, continued Mr. jnderson, tha London meat' .salesman is too well able to take care of himself, and if shipments are not very carefully regulated there will, no doubt, be a repetition of previous experiences, and a breakdown in the marked He did not anticipate any shortage CilLet in mutton or lamb this year as compared with last year. It was too early in the season to estimate what number of lambs would be turned off, but tliire was no doubt that there was an »Mindance of feed j in the country districts. Mr. F. Waymouth, of the Cafclerb'uty Meat Company, said 'hat far as he could, see, there was t.n'und vo be continued shortoes* of fiittiton tliis season, and the shortage would be more tLan that of last Regarding lambs he scid that seeing the larger number of limbs prtciuced on the Flams this season, the evaJlI able for export ought to be s ,'jluiy lsrger than last year. MU'ct would depend, how- • ever oa whether or not ".he i.nfavc crable weather recently experienced . had afteeted j the lambs. At present he bt-htved the | unfavourable weather had aCtcted tLem, and lambs were not coming *o h&nd so fast as they did this time last vear,

When opening the Garton Con'ree of lectures at Edinburgh, the other d&y, I'i oi %S?. r Wallace gave the following fiswes: ■ '—The total cost of producing a 2J bushel crop of -wheat in the Canadian V>rch-W est, and landing it in England, lie pit a' 20s a quarter. .In Victoria ibe r;-rm:il yifV is i 8 to 9 ibusß'els per !.cre, aji-J iLe cultivation and harvestings costs 13s j'tr qi arter,. which, with freight and '.-.her n<, ited, come up to 23s 9d per quarter, land'ed; in England. In New Whk?. uliere i the average return is aDout 10 biiihels per ] acre, tlse estimated cost is considerably less, I especially when the disc plough, the d'iliing I machine, and the complete hn vi-ster ;ue employed. -The complete harvester, which has to a large extent within the last two years replaced the strinper, cntt .1 arrest, thresh, and clean, for nvulft. the grain from an area of lO ncrts la the day, at a total outlay of less tLm half a err urn an acre, a man, a boy, an-l four hojses doipg. the work. The Professor added that -probably in no country in the wmM could wheat bis produced.at- such a low c>st as in the Argentine Republic, also the Australian harvester has hern introduced.