FARM JOTTINGS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15112, 22 December 1921, Page 8

FARM JOTTINGS.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. At a meeting of the committee of tho Manawatu A. and P. tion (writes the Times correspondent) a letter was received from the secretary of the Royal -Agricultural Show, Sydney, stating that the house committed of the show wa=. anxious to try a change of judgein the jumping contests at the shew The "society would pay frU of the ;udges. The proposition was considered very favourably, and power wao given to' aoti.-^ A Waug'anui dairyman paid t!n? present had been one,of 'the best seasons ho had over experienced. Ho added: "Thero is enough milk La ing produced in the district daily to float a battleship." On tho ground that it would prove an excellent advertisement for Mew Zealand, it lifts been suggested by a correspondent! in a exchange that; tho Government snould assist the owner of the giant bullock Jumbo to take the animal to England for exhibition at the Royal Show, London, "Thousands of pounds are spent every year in ad-„ vertising New Zealand in England and other countries,", he writes, "while'in Australia at the present time Jumbo and Goliath, t-hose two giant bullocks, are tho cheapest ana best advertisement New Zealand ever had or is likely to have." Mis 11. Green, of Kairanga, lias a Pricsian cow that promises to smash all milk-production records for tho Dominion. This is "Buttercup 3rd. of Ashlynn." The yield in milk for tho month of October was 2398.251 b. . He* test i was 5.48, ana the butter-fat she produced was 131.421 b. The previous butter-fa* record for the Dominion for a mo? was. 1171 b. The yield of "Buttercup 3rd. of Ashlynn" for November was also very high, but th 0 semi-official test has not yet been received. HUGE LOSSES ON MEAT WORKS. PERTH, Nov. 24. In the Legislative Council; the select committee on Wyndham meat works presented its report. The financial position is shown as: Debits, £1,245,852; credits, £?«?-7, 105; debit balance, £908,747. Tho operating losses for three years amounted to £325,504, and tho boarding-house for employees involved a loss of £2603 in ]919, and £5796 in 1920. Tho men paid 25* a. week, while the cost to the Government was £1 16s 2d. Tho-committee recommended tnir operations bo suspended indefinitely tho Perth office closed, and the Wyndham staff cut down; that She CTpvernment endeavour to lease or eell the works as soon as possible; and that no further capital be spent on tihem, pending a final decision

BRITISH LANDLORD. LONDON, "Nov. 10. Tho plight of some of the lanued proprietors of England is illustrated by the Marquis of Northampton, who, in returning thanks for a wedding present! from the tenantry on his estate, said that at the present time ho was living on borrowed money. "We are passing through difficult times,'' he said. "I try to excuse myself because I feel that people must hate me. 'I hope they do not. My grandfather had a great deal of money to play with. My father had some, too. I have none. 1 have to be rather pinching. The cost of living has risen, and with it wasfes and it is just as well I should tell you that in order to employ you at present wage's I have to borrow money all the. time. The money will have to be repaid, but 1 do net quite, see when that will be possible;"

Most of the hay that is being gathered in the South Wairarapa district this season is being baled in the field, with the object of getting surplus quantities straight on to the market.

A Friesian cow in the Palmerston North district yielded 2398.251 b of milk in October. Her test was 6.4 and the butter-fat she produced was 131. 421 b.

In conversation with a Southland News reporter at the Southland Show Mr Robert M'Bride, chairman of -directors of the Mataura Dairy Factory, said that the present intake at that factory was 10,200 gallons per day, as against just under 7000 gallons at this time last year. To cope with this amount of milk, it has been necessary to work a night shift, nine vats working in the day time, and six at night.

What the purebred Jersey is doing for Taranaki was shown at the Jersey Breeders' dinner at New Plymouth by Mr A. W. Yeates, presi-'' dent of the Inglewood Jersey Breeders' Club, who said that the average test of his herd was 4.8 and that he had produced more buttej-fat from his 50 acre farm that had been obtained from farms of upwards of 100 acres in the same vicinity. "

The Evening Post says: A hen out Silvejstream way, by strict attention to business, recently acquired a family of 12 chickens; at least 11 are chickens and one is almost a duckling. The outsider, who, besides his other misfortunes, as the only black member of the family, has three legs, one of which is web-footed, and considerable excitement prevailed in the farmyard the other day w r hen the strang&r. wa|kjed of£for a swim. ■ The mother, "who- wears a worried look, is slowly recovering from shock.-'":'