FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 28 July 1925, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

The goods would bo paid for out of the proceeds of the wheat.

The potato planting season is verynear at hand and growers are taking advantage of the change in the weather to put operations in full swing.

Some valuable pedigree Friesian heifers have recently been shipped to Fiji, from a well-known pedigree Friesian herd at Matamata.

Over a million pounds more butterfat were produced in North Taranaki during the season 1924-25 which closed on June 30, than wero produced in 1923-24.

Largely attended meetings of graziers in many country towns in New South Wales considered Sir John Higgins’ scheme for the stabilisation of wool values,' and passed resolu tiens against the adoption of any scheme at present.

A settlor at Whare puhunga, near Te Awamutu, has a remarkable heavy crop of Algerian oats from his 50 aoses. Threshing was eommenood last week but had to bo suspended owing to the heav yand continuous. . rains. The crop is estimated to yield' 40 bushels per acre.

A Manawatu fanner reports the successful application of the air treatment in general use for milk fever, to a bow Buffering from paralysis and unable to rise to her feet, a few days prior to calving. The paralysis aeoompanying milk fever is, as a rule, not in evidence until after calving.

The demand for good dairy stock has increased considerably in Taranaki during the last week er two, due probably to the excellent prospects for the coming season. At Inglewood last week good grade Jerseys sold up to £25, and at Okate a choice line of 22 two-year-old heifers averaged about £9 15/, individual prices going as high as £l6 10/.

The first world’s championship butter competition, which will be held at the coming Auckland winter exhibition, is creating intense and widespread interest in the dairying world. The entries, which closed on Wednesday, total 87, of which 43 are from Now Zealand factories. The fact that over half the entries come from overseas is striking evidence of the importance attached to the competition by the leading butter producers of the world.

Tho "N.Z. Dairy Produce Exporter,” the official tigon of the Dairy Control Board, has made its frit appearance with the pullicatio. of 65,000 copies, in what is designed te be a career of service to the dairy industry and New Zealand generally. Th# journal is of 64 pages and will bo published monthly. It contains matters of interest to all sections of the farming community, and comment on topics of the hour, A liberal insertion of illustrations makes it quite an acceptable journal.

Sir E. F. Wise announces that th# Russo-British Grain Company is shipping £5,000,000 worth of- Russian wheat to Britain in the next few months. The British Co-operative Wholesale Society, has arranged: an immediate credit of £506,000 and a similar credit has been established in Franco. Large Orders for machinery, tools and textiles on’ credit have been placed in Britain Germany, Poland and Czeeho-Slovakia, and Britain would receive more if she wore willing to offer as good credit as the Continent. The goods would bo paid for out of the proceeds of the wheat.

Tho merit list for May shows that, among tho mature cows, Bloomfield Galatea Countess (Bloomfield Farm Co.), has put up tho fine record of 76.56 lbs of butter-fat in 24 days; next to her como Lady Zozo Alcartra van Racolands (John Court, Ltd.) 73.4 lb. fat, Oakwood Daisy Bell (R. J. Potter) 72.85 lb, Lady Rosebrod (J. McAnulty 82.84 lb, and Monavale Queen Bess (T. H. Richards) 71.81 lb. Oakwood Daisy Bell’s record for 304 days is 20,033.8 lbs of milk and 785,8 lbs of fat, so she should roach over 900 lbs of fat for the full testing period. ,

Though tho demand for bulls at tho Jgrsey Breeders’ sale last Wednesday was not particularly keen, one bull that commanded spirited competition, was Mr Frank Jennings’s yearling‘Lisbury Dandy Boy.’ Mr Jennings is a young breeder fanning at Mauriceville. His first purchases wero made at Holly Oak, where ho purchased that outstanding cow ‘ Holly Oak Lala. ’ Ho has now topped tho sale with the first Jersey he has offered. Although tho price was not particularly high, ‘Lisbury Herd’ promises to become prominent in this district. Mr J. W. Smith, (Kahutata), another young breeder was tho purchaser.

At tho annual meeting of tho Taranaki branch of the Now Zealand Friesian Association Mr W. E. Wright, of Rohotu, considered poyment could bo made quite equitably on tho production of cheese per pound of butter fajt. A factory manager had told him that, in Novofbor, when tho average butterfat test of milk supplied to his factory was 3,5 the production of cheese per lb of butter fat was 2.89 lbs, while in May, when tho butterfat test averaged 5, the quantity of cheese fell to 2.39 lbs to every pound of butter-fat. The present system of paying on tho butter-fat percentage for milk supplied to rheeze factories was penalising tho Friesian, Ayrshire and Shorthorn breeds.