Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 16 January 1913, Page 36

Interprovincial

A sample sheaf of oats, the straw of which was 7ft in length, grown at West Eyreton, was exhibited in Kangiora on Friday (says the Press). A I imam message states that the Hessian fly is reported to be doing damage in some parts of the Geraldine district and tho turnip fly is a,iso in evidence. That there is danger in standing too close to an incoming tr<. i was illustrated at the Ashburton railway station on Saturday morning (says the Mad). A young lady was standing close to the edge of the platform and narrowly escaped being struck by the tablet, one of the men on the engine withdrawing it just in time. The Press states that the fat lambs which are being killed in South Canterbury at the freezing works tins season are in excellent condition, but are unusually hard to skin. The skins are what the slaughtermen call 1 tailor-made,’ so firmly do they adhere to the flesh. This is attributable to the fact that the lambs have been fattened for the most part on milk, having come straight from their mothers. It is said that milk-fattened lambs are always harder to dress than lambs which have been fattened on grass. Fears of the slaughtermen’s strike are deterring farmers from buying stock owing to the possibility of being unable to quit when the stock is fat (says a Press Association message from Palmerston North). The present lifelessness of the market is attributed partly to this and partly to the backward state of the rape crops. While farmers, realise the importance of refraining from defying the workers and precipitating the trouble, the general feeling is that if these demands are going to be an annual affair, they had better fight now and have it over.