NORTH ISLAND LAMBING ESTIMATE.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 47, Issue 5, 20 November 1933, Page 336

NORTH ISLAND LAMBING ESTIMATE.

From information furnished by Inspectors of Stock in the various districts the average lambing for the current season in the North Island is estimated at 91-23 per cent., compared with 89-16 per cent, in 1932. With 9,318,943 breedingewes in the North Island, as shown in the 1933 sheep returns, the number of lambs this season is estimated at 8,502,050. South Island and Dominion estimates will appear in next month's issue of the Journal. , ' Liming Experience at Winton Demonstration Farm.— In the 1931-32 season at this farm a block 2. chains wide was dressed with burnt lime at the rate of 1 ton per acre on the furrow, being part of a total area sown in swedes. The resultant crop on the limed portion was not any better than that on the unlimed portion. In the following season (1932-33) the total area was sown with chou moellier, and the grown crop on the limed portion stood out very conspicuously, due to a greater height, robustness in growth, deeper coloration of leaves, and better texture of leaf. / “ Research Work on — Referring to the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Station, 'the Annual Report of the Empire Marketing Board for 1932-33 states : “ Work is being developed along five main lines: (1) the state of the water in tissues ; (2) the changes in the state of -the proteins during rigor and storage; (3).spoilage due to the action of micro-organisms (4) chemical changes in fats ; and (5) the changes in muscle pigments post mortem. During the past year; knowledge obtained in each of these fields of work has been of immediate value in attacking a number of applied problems.”