FARMING NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1919, Page 7

FARMING NOTES

m j In the course of a speech in London last month, Mr Lloyd George stated that during tho war Great Britain restored 1,750,000 acres of land to cultivation. / Wo understand that a well-known' Australian pastoral company has in hand the purchase of 5000 young rough Australian mares, which are required lor breeding purposes in Servia. This is an interesting outlet for Australian stock. j A German Brazilian syndicate has purchased a property near San Jose, in Brazil, comprising some 127,000 acres, which it is proposed to settle , German families brought direct from j their homeland. The soil is good for j agriculture. It is expected that 800/ families will emigrate. , In reply to a question in Parlia-j ment, it was ascertained that 887 herd and six stud bulls had been j purchased for use by the Queensland j Stato stations lip to 30th June last. The average price for herd bulls was £l9 Is, and for studs 55 guineas each.

Horses were sold at 2s 6d a head by auction early this month at Mudgee, N.S.W. There were 100 animals yarded, and best class animals only brought £6. The dryness of the season, and the lack of fodder in the district wore the factors responsible for low pr:'ceß.

Estimates as to the number of sheep in Uruguay indicate that tho flocks are rapidly recovering from the inroads made by disease prior to 1916. The figuros for 1908 were 20,268,296, for 1916 11,472,852, and at the beginning of 1919 they stood at between 18 and 19 millions. The current year's figures aro based on unofficial estimates.

Motor tractors are evidenly be-' coming very popular in Canada. A press report states that 8000 wero brought into tho Dominion from tho United States alone during last December and January. The total number of tractors built in the States and exported to Canada during 191S was 1691, as compared with 12,805 in 1917, and only 3693 in 1916.

Tho losses liable to be sustained by graziers through the inadequacy of proper rolling stock on the New South Wales railways were strikingly illustrated last month. Three thousand- shorn sheep that had to be removed in open trucks were caught in heavy rain en route, and on arrval at their destination it was found that no less than 1600 were dead, mostly drowned.

The Eltham Dairy Co. is presenting it suppliers with a very nice "Christuas box" on Saturday next, when (the Argus states), in addition to-tho lsual "20th" payment, tho company ; .3 also distributing 3d per lb on butteri'at supplied this season, and the fmnl ')onus of 3d on last yenr's supply. The latter makes the total payment for last season 2s OJd per lb of butter-fat.