FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 31 October 1924, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

Mr W. A. champion, pen of heavy lambs averaged 12411bsi live weight. The second pen averaged 103 lbs.

It was stated at the Carterton Show that fully 1000 ewes were lost in the small Gladstone district during the past lambing season by inversion. Ail old and experienced breeder at Carterton yesterday remarked that he had never seen, even in Hawke's Bay, anything like the show of fat lambs that occupied the pens at Carterton. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd.> report having sold on account of Mr J. Ogilvy, of “Ngawaka," Gladstone, at Addington en Wednesday, a consignment of 100 odd shorn ewes at £2 2s per head. It was generally admitted that the entries in cattle and to a smaller extent in sheep, at the Wairarapa shew, were to some extent affected by the nearness ef the Royal Show at Palmerston North. Both cattle and sheep lose condition in being exhibited at shows and hence some owners held back for the greater event next week. In considering a remit passed by the N.Z. Council of Agriculture ‘“that the dehorning of cattle other than stud be made compulsory, to take Effect in two years' time," the N.Z. Meat Producers' Board considered that public opinion was now sufficiently educated regarding dehorning of cattle to realise its great advantages. It ther<|fore resolved to recommend that the Minister of Agriculture legislate to provide that all cattle except stud stock be dehorned upon reaching the nge of two years.