Oat Crop Yields Promising Amid Frosts and Rain
In Flemington district oats cut last week are in stock and may yield about 40 bushels per acre. Tomato crops are stunted by late frosts. stone fruits and peaches suffer. Widespread rain slows haymaking. pastures soften. surface water remains. South Canterbury Farmers Union plans to import 50 domestics from Home to ease labour shortages, following a prior successful trial.
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Ford's Road
Flemington
South
South Canterbury
Union
Dominion
Farmers’ Union
Ashburton
Canterbury
England
Origin of Hereford cattle traced to Lord Scudamore import
A Country Life essay notes a century old claim that seven white faced red bodied cows were brought from the Low Countries during Charles II’s reign. The Sutton Court family and Sir Edward Harley aided Lord Scudamore, with Dunkirk as a likely transit point, producing Hereford stock via Belgian connections rather than Dutch sources.
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England
Lord Scudamore
Charles Ti
Lord
Scudamore
Thomas
Andrew Knight
Cuyp
W. GH. Cooke
J.C
Hampton Bishop
Cooke
Hampton’ Bishop
Hereford
Sutton Court
Roger Hereford
Dunkirk
Edward Harley
Herefordshire
Cromwell
Charles Tr
France
Suften
Belgium
Supplementary Estimates Highlight Strike, Epidemic Costs
Wellington reports supplementary estimates totaling 321 061 pounds from Consolidated Fund and 51 806 pounds for public works. Notable allocations include 25 000 pounds for smallpox costs, 1000 pounds for the Sugar Trust prosecution, 140 pounds to Dr Te Rangihiroa, and 500 pounds for the International Medical Congress in Auckland.
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Wellington
House of Representatives
Civil Service -Commissioners
Sugar Trust
Commercial Trust Act
Te Rangihiroa
Auckland
A. Hamilton
Dominion Museum
Laurenson
G.laurenson
M.P
Prince
New Zealand
Messra Robertson
Veitch
Otago
Victoria Colleges
Mackenzie Country
Public Trust Office
Royal Commission
Mount Cook
Hermitage
Forestry ‘Commission
Boyd Garlick
Australia
Canterbury Schedule of Local Public Works and Matters
A list of projects and allocations including Drainage Board works in Christchurch and the North Canterbury Hospital Board Plunket nurse, Kaikoura Fishermen's Slip, Spreydon Domain improvements, Hanmer Plantation, Kaituna Scenic Reserve, Kennedy’s Bush and Hoon Bay, New Gaal Wharf, Robinson Bay and Road sites, Cam River Bridge Rangiora, and a compassionate allowance to the widow of late T. W. McGuire, Christchurch.
Education should rise from college to kindergarten say Pillsbury
At a Commonwealth Club meeting in California A J Pillsbury argues education should begin at the top with colleges and universities and flow downward to primary and kindergarten. He warns few respond to the call and urges agrarian schools and stronger agricultural paths in high schools to feed colleges like Kansas State Agricultural College.
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Commonwealth Club of California
A. J. Pillsbury
California
Kansas State
College of Agriculture
Kansas
King's Record Clydesdale Stallion Rated Top Breeding Import
The imported Clydesdale stallion King's Record travels between Longbeach and Ashburton via Waterton Ashton Wheatatone and Tinwald returning by Willowby and Hiffelton. Bred in Scotland by R Rid dell, foaled 1908, by King's Champion and out of Nancy of Quéenzieburn with Pr ince Charlie lineage. Knights stylish 18 hands with strong bone and movement. shown as a top brood mare with good foal-getting ability. Terms: six guineas. groomage five shillings. For details contact A Dollar or J Grigg, Longbeach.
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Longbeach
Ashburton
Waterton
Ashton
Wheatatone
Johanna
Nancy
Quéenzieburn
Prince Charlie
Blackball
Marlborough
Palma@raton
J. Grigg
Swithin Bay Horse Subscriptions Open for Mares
The notice announces subscriptions for ten mares at seven pounds each for the bay horse T. Swithin. Rothschild and Queen V. Rothschild invite applications for further particulars, noting the horse’s two mile race success at Aldlington in four minutes fifty two seconds and private trials indicating extreme speed.
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Aed
Miles
Adlington
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