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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
8
London January 28 reports from wool sales show prices realized for fleece with top values and averages across several stations including Westho Chesterton Brancepeth Christchurch Otiri Matapiro. Competition was evident and prices held well.
Sydney January 28 report notes a market fall with better prices selecting around 88. The decline is attributed to weakness in the London market affecting Australian produce.
Butter exports from Auckland total 965 612 boxes this season, marking a significant increase over the same period last year. Cheese exports show a slight decrease.
Wellington reports new freight increases effective August 1 to September 30 for flax and scrimmed tow shipped to London. Vessels from Shaw, Savill and Albion Tyser and Federal-Shire will charge 85 shillings per ton for flex and 100s per ton plus 16 percent primage, up from 75s and 90s respectively.
A Canterbury farmer praises ensilage made from Californian thistle for year round cow feed and milk yield. The piece notes costs, storage shapes, and critiques exporting ewe lambs to protect key industries. It also covers farm wives' heavy labour, poultry profits from Eltham area, and Southland Education Board adding elementary agriculture to schools with lessons on tillage grafting and orchard work.
Pupils’ stock becomes their property for home gardens as Mount Nicholas station in Wakatipu lacks shearers after a management dispute. The union plans to prosecute Messrs Mackenzie for breach of agreement and seeks compensation representing each man’s shed average. The disputed clause requires an agreed sheep shorn count before work begins.
An experiment at Gulval in West Cornwall tests the value of sulphate of ammonia on a long established potato field. Both plots received standard manures, but the sulphate plot produced 25 baskets of large potatoes versus 19 on the control, showing strong promise for this fertilizer on early potatoes.
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