FARMING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 5

FARMING NEWS.

RURAL RAKINGS. When tho white Shorthorn bull. Calrossie Control, was placed on the English market four years ago by its owner, Captain J. MaeGillivray, of Ross-shire, no buyer was forthcoming at £SOO. line month at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Wolverhampton show tho bull was judged supreme champion of the Shorthorns, a prize that raises its value to £SOOO, but it is not now for sale. , . , Complaints that grass grub had completely ruined several fields of subterranoftn clover in various parts of North Canterbury were expressed by several speakers at a local executive meeting of the l 1 armors’ Union. It had been said, several speakers added, that tho grass would reestablish itself, but it seemed doubtful if there would bo enough seed left after the pest for the growth to begin again. It was docided to pass on the reports delegates had given to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. That tho price of mutton had never been as high as at present since 1915, was a statement made to the Standard m a comparison of the markets at the eliding sale on Friday. During the opening years of the Great War prices for wethers soared to' £2 5s and £2 10s. As will be noticed from the report of the weekly stock sale in Redding wothers were valued on Friday at prices ranging up to, while eight years ago housewives were perturbed when the price of wothers rose to a top price of 30s. A Christchurch man, just returned from a trip to Java, said that to a visitor one of the arresting features there of tho stock world was a Small cattle beast, the fcmales of which wore not itiilkcd, but fattoned. They were very similar to a Jersey in size, though smaller, and weighing about 4iewt fattended to a fleshy condition, the meat, in the East not being made so fat as in European countries. The water buffalo, a larger animal, was also fattened to a prime condition, and of theso nvo animals there was a total export each week of about 6000 head to Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. There was also an export of about 8000 live pig* weekly to these points.