FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1922, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

The Stratford Jersey Cattle Club is objecting to being called on to pay amusement tax in connection with its annual smoke concert, which showed a financial deficit 'of about £4, without allowing for the tax. A shipment of cheese ex s.s. Matakana from the Rapanui Co-op. Dairy Co., consisting of 70 crates coloured and 33 white, averaged 95s 6d per cwt., when sold in London. A shipment of 74 crates coloured from the Turakina Dairy Co. averaged 99s 9d per cwt. A very favourable impression was created in the mind of the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey during his visit to the East Coast. Mr Massey said that he was more than pleased with the country he had seen. “It is no exaggeration to say that during the time we were travelling from Napier to Opotiki we saw millions of sheep—good sheep, too. It is splendid sheep country in that part of the North Island,” said Mr Massey. The Milton Poultry Farm, after over 20 year’s management by the Department of Agriculture, has been sold by auction. The whole concern was sold—plant, fencing, buildings, and stock. Good prices were realised for Die poultry. Pheasants brought up to £4 each, Indian runner ducks up to 30s each, White Leghorn pullets up to 18s each. For the latter there was a big demand at almost any price. Otago will very much miss the Milton farm. It provided a ready means of replenishing the stocks of purebred poultry of the highest class. Reference to the delays that have occurred in the discharging of meat cargoes at London and to the deterioration the meat suffers in consequence is made in a letter written to an Otago resident by an officer of a steamer Jying at the London Docks. “Apparently,” the letter says, “all the stores are full of meat, for they have left ours in as long as possible. There is a ship lying near us with a cargo of meat gone bad. When they opened one hatch they found that the meat had sunk down about five feet. Judging from the smell that is coming from it, it must be absolutely bad. The cargomen taking it out are working half-hour shifts, and getting about five shillings an hour for their work.”