Farming Notes.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 137, 17 April 1912, Page 1

Farming Notes.

POINTS FROM OTHER PARTS,

The farmers in the Waiata district ara pluming themselves upon the excellent crops ’they have secured this season, says the Feilding Star. The oats yielded up to 82 and 84 bushels to the acre.

A yield of 113 bushels per acre was obtained from a paddock of Danish oats threshed on a farm at Upper Riccarton a few days ago.

A Mas ter ton farmer states that twice as much ensilage was being made by farmers in that district than was pteviouly the case, ensilage being recognised as a valuable fodder for the winter season.

Mr Duncan McLean, of Makirikiri South, in the Wanganui district, has just obtained from a 52-acie paddock of Federal wheat a return of 65 bushels to the acre. A 40-acra crop of crested dogstail yielded 454 lb of dressed seed to the acre.

Hop picking in the Waimea is nearly finished, but there are still sevreai gardens in the vicinity of Foxhill yet untouched. Although the crops have been comparatively light the enhanced price has more than compensated tor the deficiency in the crop. The Nelson Colonist reports that a grower near Wakefield has received Is 8d per lb for his hops-a record price, so far this season. Mr F. Standish, of Ashburton, has (his year found that both half and three-quarterbred Shropshires have given the best return of any sheep. A batch of lambs, only of first and second cross ewes by Shropshire rams, averaged 45 lb weight, and gave 51b of inside fat per head. Speaking at the opening of the Motueka Valley Horticultural Society’s annual show a few days ago, Mr J. S. Rutherford stated that over four tors of grass seed had been sent out of the Taupawera district this season, the price ranging from 1s to Is 3d per lb. He rematked that the grass grown In the Valley (Danthonia Nilosa) had been found very suitable for the pumice lands of the north, and he thought if settlers saved the seed from tne grass which grew all over the hills ai d in the paddocks around Tapawera, they would find it a profitable investment.

The world’s record was made at the Rosewortby (South Australia) Agricultural egg-laying competition by six White Leghorns from the Redfern Poultry Farm, Caulfield (Victoria), with a score of 1589, this eclipsing the Burnley record of 1566 by Mr R. W. Pope’s pen by 23, The second place was taken with 1319. Mr David Hudson, of Gabriel’s Gully, who is ninety-three years of age, is a fine type of the pioneers who came to the colonies from Scotland more than half a century ago. He turned out to the harvest field the other day and stocked five acres of oats.

The Stratford Dairy Company held a big general meeting to consider the advisability of adding cheesemuking to the business. It was decided to take no action at present. A consideration that weighed a good deal with the shareholders was the possibility of developments in the casein business giving a splendid market for skimmilk.

Between Longbush and Dacre, Southland, only one crop of potatoes, and that a small one, is to be seen. Farmers have not been encouraged to go in for potato growing owing to the low price ruling for tubers during the past few years, and it looks as if the anticipations made by the News some eight weeks ago that potatoes will be scarce In this province is likely to be verified.