FARM NOTES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5569, 28 October 1910, Page 3

FARM NOTES.

A Lockhart farmer (New South Wales) ox- ! kibiied at the local show wheat, oats, barley, nuu'zq, rye, potatoes, vegetables of every dwoription, fruits, presorvcs, hams, bason, batter, saffron, raisins, currants, prunes, beef, mntton^and poultiy. The whole of the eihibits were grown or reared on the exhibit<a?tfwm, about three miles outside Lockhart. Seyernl proposals have been made for exhibit»g tba collection in tbo principle capitals and centres of Australia ,A ahecpbreeder of Victoria made an extraordinary discovery whon mustering. He "found ik nerino sheop on a small flat on the top of a mountain. The sheep has an extra-, ordinary staple of wool, and from the earmark i« 13 jrettraold. It has noverbeenshorn. The wool i» about 21inin length, and of except- ; fiddly'good quality. This is probably the kmgtat staple of vrool ever obtained in AnaT«»lt*.>

' I! the pig trade has almost run thecourso j 'Of what would usually be regarded as its i Plotted period of prosperity, there is no sign (write* tno London Meat Trades Journal) of a weakening in the demand for pedigree stock. ,At-Enham99 Berksbires averaged £9 6s 6d, 'and brood sows made up to 30 and 31 guineas. - Twnworthi and Largo Whites at Elford Lowe (too, told well, good prices up to 2(j guineas bring obtained. '"The'annualreport of the Queensland De--paitment of Agriculture and Stock for the ? '^r«(^1909-10, points out the rising importance •:• oMhe dairy industry in the State, and t demands that better provision be made for • cdacattan as applied tc dairying. The return.-, . tboogh indirect, would fully rejny any oxj enditort. involved. Tbo holding of a class for tbtfatttraction of managers of cheeso factories •- !»Wg«d f Dealing with agriculture genora'ly, . i tfco revert states that the total area under --crop dnring 1909 was 006,790 acres, from wbioh crops to tho-ialne of £3,485,416 were

; A recent visitor to Dublin found the fol'ownig'prices for New Zealand mutton at the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores in the - .?'ty:~Forequarters. 7id ; hindquarters, BJd; ball lamb, 7id: wholo lamb, 7Jd. Consignments arrircd daily. ' A striking instance of tho cure of a cow *«atly dead from milk fever by pumping air if I*o JOT udder is given by Mr O. E. Cbaj.man in, tba Albany (U.S. A.) "Country Geutleffla^.' t The powr was \n such a prostrate * -cs?*V^ on Tatl waß expected that she would - "otJWe fclll tb,e morning, vrben a votcr'nary ttrfton filled her udder full of air with an au-pnmp until " it was nearly as hard as a tags drum," a flat cloth string being tied to "!k* nl of !*oteat (apparently the only one jtoough which tho air was pumped) to prevent w esoape of the air. The treatment was TftpMtod- on two subsequent occasions, after the »W had beau worked out of tho udder, and mtqvnnp to stimulate heart action was ad--.auwst^red. Onfchesooond morning afcer the Bntau.inllation tho cow recovered, stood up, , Mwconßumed food. - - ft*** official enumeration of tlie sheap m v rummy this year give.3 tie total at 2G,<286,296, ,*» xsompared wiMi 18,003,717 in 1900, the in- ■ S**J t>eing 7,677,579, or • 4t.5 per cent. - Wforte aro being made by leading pastoralists <U»re to improve the breed. At a dinner at King's B omptoD, Somcrsot, ,^gtoa, thoHon. £. H. Watson gave the - j**y* °' some agricultural experiments ho .»a made on his land. When he took his jam he cut only }4ci\t of hay to tho acre on * !»* t- meadowa. in tho succeeding year "Bpput scvrt of basic slag and 2cwt of ground "Wonto it, and fed somo mangolds on it, MteiWArds cutting 2Ucwt to the ante. This * vS*l6 *"* Ottt 37c-wt to the acre in tho same Held.

leading ajtioultu'al authorities have de'«™aea that the most economical way of wwa^BkimTinilkto pigs is hy mixing it iv Proportwaof three jonnds of skim-milk to one SP'u™ m? al- Tho amount of skim-milk •jweft P»fß will consume daily depends, of ' S^'t 0.1^ 6 a? oo£ the P'B 3-* Taking them blTjail. cage of. 6ix we«k3, when pigs weigh »Zl• ? they will consume, for the first six WeWt about'Blb of skim-milk daily with fW> After t^stinio the amount of milk ' t« .F"*? wtwncon bo increased, according - WJy* judgment of the feed.er. The skim U iL, m.ten average cows ought to amount