. Farmer and stockbreeder . ce from 30s. to 40s. upwards each duringthe past two months. County Cavan is a baconand butter producing county, and quite a largesum of money is realised annually by the farmersfrom these two commodities. Indian mealwhen it can be had, small potatoes and separatedmilk are the principal articles of diet the pigsreceive, and they thrive well on them, but thepig meal sold here Last year was very bad indeed. During the past few weeks several parishbranches of the National Farmers Union havebeen established in this county, but beyond men-tioning this fact I will not exp
. Farmer and stockbreeder . ce from 30s. to 40s. upwards each duringthe past two months. County Cavan is a baconand butter producing county, and quite a largesum of money is realised annually by the farmersfrom these two commodities. Indian mealwhen it can be had, small potatoes and separatedmilk are the principal articles of diet the pigsreceive, and they thrive well on them, but thepig meal sold here Last year was very bad indeed. During the past few weeks several parishbranches of the National Farmers Union havebeen established in this county, but beyond men-tioning this fact I will not express my ownopinion on the subject. I prefer to allow everyiherring to hang by its own tail. There is at present quite a good demand suitable for farm work. Many farmersattended the auctions for army horses, but didnot buy, considering the prices too high. Oats are threshing out fairly well, but wheatis very disappointing. The rooks and pigeonsin harvest and rats and mice 6inoe havedestroyed the half of the Photo by] times for the Flock. Autumn-sown wheat is looking very thin on theground, and seems to have suffered from theeffects of the continual wet weather during thewinter. February 18. J. M. D. SUSSEX—LAMBING ON THE S0UTHD0WNS The weather has been exceptionally severefor this southern county during the last fewweeks. There has often been by this date aconsiderable acreage of oats sown, but this yearthere has been none so far, and with the presentstate of the weather it looks like being sometime yet before a start is made. With theearliest Southdowns lambing has are that lambs are strong and probablya larger proportion of twins than usual. Storecattle are not a very fast sale unless forwardin condition, probably on account of the restric-tions on feeding stuffs. Freshly calved cows arecheaper than a few weeks ago but a good animalmakes a high price still. There is considerable uneasiness amongst far-mers as to the Governmen
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