JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 17

JOTTINGS.

It is worth trouble and expense to secure a good bull, and it is worth more trouble and expense to keep him as long as possible.

The cream separator is an important factor in the production of good butter. It should be kept in a clean, sanitary condition, and care should be taken to see that. it is skimming properly.

When feeding skim, milk to calves, the fat content should be added in the form of meal or grain. If a one-sided ration is fed calves will not thrive as they Should.

Peas make excellent hay when cut green. They can be grown pure or mixed with oats, barley or rye. When grown in conjunction with another crop fchey produce a large amount of fodder of Very high quality.

Constitution in a cow is shown by a number of things, among which a large breathing capacity is an assurance of the requisite amount of air. This is indicated by large and distended nostrils and good lting capacity.

The botanical composition of the pastures is not easy to control. The different species and varieties do not Survive in the proportions in which they are sown. Sooner or later some of them vanish and other kinds which were not sown make their appearance. The climate, soil, manorial treatment, and general management all Contribute to the final result.

Parasitic gastritis usually affects lambs, «nd may break out shortly after Weaning, causing on occasions heavy losses if nrompt measures are not adopted. The outbreak generally begins With the death of one or two lambs, and is followed by a steadily-increasing mortality, until perhaps 50 per cent of the weanefs have died.

In addition to remedies previously ?iven for tutu poisoning,. a correspondent orwards a method which, he says, has never failed. This consists of the cutting of the eye vein. In 40 years' experience on tutu country, he has never known this to fail.

Calves and pigs confined to the pen lire oftentimes affected with vermin at this time of the year, Using machine or trankcaee oil on the pigs and linseed oil and coal oil on the calves will destroy the lice. Another application in ten days Is necessary.

There probably is no part of the show game that is harder to master than that of defeat. The man who can take defeat With a smile on his face and a lightness of his movements as he takes Ids animals back to the barn, has mastered the greatest factor of success—self-posses-sion, which, applied, means patience.

A tiling that must be kept in mind When giving medicine to cattle is the great strength of their molar or grinding teeth; this makes it necessary when drenching them and using a glass bottle for the liquid or medicine that care must be taken that it is not crushed between the teeth. '

Whey, being much less rich in albuminoids, differs considerably from separated milk when it is used for pig feeding. Whey, roughly speaking, contains some 50 per cent, of the solids that were originally prevent in the whole milk.

Hairballs in the stomach frequently cause digestive disturbances, and occur more frequently in unthrifty, lousy calves confined in small pens, where they suck and lick each other. Bairballs can cause obstruction in the stomach and lead to death. Large hairballs can only be abstracted by surgical operation.

Garclaugh May Mischief, an Ayrshire cow, produced 25,3291b of milk, in which was more than 17dlb of mineral matter. Assuming that this cow weighed 12001b, she gave off more than three and a-half times as much mineral matter as was found in her skeleton.