ESTIMATES OF THE SEASON’S LAMBING.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 20 December 1927, Page 425

ESTIMATES OF THE SEASON’S LAMBING.

Following are complete estimates of the current season’s lambing, computed from estimated average percentages furnished by Inspectors of Stock in the various districts. Corresponding figures for the five previous years, together with the actual numbers of lambs tailed, are also given for comparison.

—Live-stock Division

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SPREAD OF FIREBLIGHT.

REGULATIONS GOVERNING REMOVAL OF CERTAIN PLANTS AND BEES FROM NORTH ISLAND. The regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act published respectively in the Gazette of 18th June, 1920, and 28th May, 1925, governing the removal of certain' plants and bees from the Auckland and North Auckland Land Districts, and the counties of Patea, Waitotara, and Wanganui, were revoked by Order in Council dated 6th June, 1927, and the following new regulations issued in lieu thereof : 1. In these regulations Plant includes any portion of a plant, excepting fruit: " Disease ” means the disease known as fireblight (Bacillus amylovorus). 2. No person shall send or bring any plant ,of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or cratcegus (hawthorns) from the .North Island into any other portion of New Zealand Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the sending by an officer of the Department of Agriculture under proper safeguards of any plant of any of the above-mentioned kinds for the purpose of identification of disease. 3. (1) No person shall send or bring any package of trees or shrubs, or portions of trees or shrubs, from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand unless such package is accompanied by a certificate, in the form set out in the Second Schedule hereto, signed by or on behalf of the consignor, stating that no plant or portion of a . plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or cratcegus is contained in the package.

(2) The certificate shall be endorsed on a tag or label securely attached to the package in a prominent position. (3) No person shall carry or despatch or deliver for purposes of despatch to any officer of the Post Office or the Railway Department or any other person any package containing trees or shrubs or portions of trees or shrubs intended to be sent from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand, and not having attached thereto as herein provided the . certificate required by this regulation. 4. (1) No person shall send or bring any bees from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand unless such bees have been effectively quarantined at a place of quarantine as provided by this regulation for the six days immediately prior to their despatch from that Island, so as to prevent their having access to any flowers or other vegetation. (2) The Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture shall appoint such places of quarantine within the North Island, and shall impose such: conditions for their use, as he deems necessary. (3) After completing the prescribed period of six days in quarantine the bees shall be forwarded direct ■ from the place of quarantine to' their final destination,' an official permit in the form set out in the Third Schedule hereto or to the like effect, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture, being attached by tag or label to each parcel of such bees. (4) No person shall carry or despatch or deliver for purposes of despatch to any officer of the Post Office or the Railway Department or any other person any package.containing bees intended to be sent from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand and not having attached thereto as herein provided the permit required by this regulation. ■ ; (5) All expenses of sending bees to a place of quarantine and of forwarding them on completion of their period of quarantine to their destination outside the North Island shall be borne by the original sender of such bees, and shall be payable on demand. - (6) The officer of the Department of Agriculture in charge of any place of quarantine may in his discretion, before accepting any bees intended to be dealt with under this regulation, require the person delivering the same to him to prepay to him the estimated expense of sending the same to their destination. (7) Every person who does or omits any act in contravention of these., regulations, or signs any certificate under these regulations which contains a false statement, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £2O. The regulations came into force on publication in the Gazette of 9th June, 1927, in which the several schedules may be seen.

AGRICULTURAL SHOWS, SEASON 1927-28.

The following show-dates, for the remainder of the current season, have been notified by agricultural and pastoral associations :

Nuhaka A. and P. Association : Nuhaka, Ist January, 1928. Marton District A. and P. Association: Marton, 18th January. Waipukurau A. and P. Association : Waipukurau, 20th January. Palmerston and Waihemo A. and P. Association: Palmerston, 20th January. Horowhenua A. and P. Association : Levin, 24th and 25th January. Tapanui Farmers’ Club : Tapanui, 25th January. Rangitikei A. and P. Association : Taihape, 25th and 26th January. Helensville A. and P. Association : Helensville, 30th January. Golden Bay A. and P. Association: Motupipi, Ist February. Woodville A. and P. Association : Woodville, 3rd and 4th February. Omaha and Pakiri A. and H. Association : Leigh, 4th February. Clevedon A. and P. Association : Clevedon, 4th February. Feilding A. and P. Association : Feilding, 7th and Bth February. Te Puke A. and P. Association: Te Puke, Bth February. Dannevirke A. and P. Association : Dannevirke, Bth, 9th, and 10th February. Hikurangi-Otonga A. and P. Association : Hikurangi, 9th February. Masterton A. and P. Association : Solway, 14th and 15th February. Te Awamutu A. and P. Association : Te Awamutu, 15th February. Taumarunui A. and P. Association : Taumarunui, 15th February.

Buller A. and P. Association : Westport, 17th and 18th February. Ohura A. and P. Association : Matiere, 22nd and 23rd February. Franklin A. and P. Association : Pukekohe, 24th and 25th February. Tauranga A. and P. Association : Tauranga, 29th February. Hukerenui Agricultural Association : Hukerenui, Ist March. Mongonui County A. and P. Association : Kaitaia, 3rd March. Opotiki A. and P. Association : Opotiki, 6th March. Taranaki Agricultural Society : New Plymouth,. 7th and Bth March. Matamata A. and P. Association : Matamata, 13th March. King-country Central A. and P. Association : Te Kuiti, 15th March. Kaikoura A. and P. Association : Kaikoura, 16th March. Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society : Autumn Show, Tomoana, 17th March. Mayfield A. and P. Association : Mayfield, 17th March. Hawarden A. and P. Association : Hawarden, 23rd March. Methven A. and P. Association : Methven, 29th March. , Oxford A. and P. Association : Oxford, sth April.

Year. Number of Breeding-ewes. Estimated Average Percentage of Lambing. Estimated Number of Lambs. Actual Number of Lambs tailed. NORTH ISLAND. - ■ 1927 7,905,432 87-28 6,899,861 1926 7 ,5°3 »200 8435 6,329,338 6,459,775 1925 7,463,735 85-64 6,391 6,345,218 1924 7,148,949 85-00 6,049,654 6,199,881 1923 7,170,154 91-34 6,549,143 6,170,673 1922 6,771,482 90-36 6,118,530 5,955,081 * SOUTH ISLAND. 1927 6,926,298 86-17 5,968,979 1926 6,445. O 84-79 •5,465,361 5,609,906 1925 6,251,488 78-61 4,914,046 5,090,562 1924 5,927,145 87-87 5,208,378 5,267,266 1923 5,892,849 83-99 4,949,313 4,962,663 1922 5,724,572 82-53 4,724,475 4,949, DOMINION. 1927 14,831,730 86-76 ,868,840 • • 1926 I3,94 8 ,52 84-57 11,794,699 12,069,681 1925 13,715,223 82-43 11,305,858 11,435,780 1924 13,076,094 86-14 11,258,032 11,467,147 1923 13,063,003 88-02 11,498,456 11,133,336 1922 12,496,054 86-77 10,843,005 10,904,521 - : •- — —