GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

SOME SHOW GOSSIP.

said Mr. E. Eagle,. j (ln to a Dominion . representative, is tho best- cross '-I h'avo ■ ever seen for. dairrcows. Tho"rfirst'-'-prizo,grade• Jersey cow at- Hawera show (Mr- -D. AVatkm's Cherry s lairj) was, I« think,-of this .breeding, and she was • a verv cow, with a good udder, ,a, cow I .shoiild eipect. to .find easy to maintain. Sho would get' her' loir figure from the Ayrshire:'' The • winning ■ two-year-old heifer ol •Mr -J. ; C;.-Montefiore, of Hawera, was,.ol the same, feeding;., i She ...has , ; tlie .test udder for 'a ' t'w6-yßar'-old I ever saw. • 'I-saf. similarly, good .results: from-the. Jersey-Ayrshire cross at NeV Plyniouth in the-year before last. The Ayrshire -seems- to improve.: the ( udder and givo - the 'fullness that -is wanted. ... i : Probablythe 'finest.crop of buttercups that •ever' -spoilt', .ii. cow's .'milk 'is - that now to , bo seen ; in ,;a''paddock at 'the :Waitotara railway station. ■ _ ... ■- ° When *it was. suggested, to Mr. E. Eagle, Jan., ..this. week, .that; in .crdssing., a,'- Jersey on - an' /Ayrshire * the hardiness of thfe -Ayrshire was 1 imparted to. the progeny, Sir; Eagle replied -that, -'although Mt was often said that tho'Jersey was,delicate, the same could be. said of.-any cow : that:'was. a'heavy ,milker,, no mat-ter-'what-' breeding. First-cross. Jer-. 'sey-Ayrshire cows were, generally of good _constitution, and'gave the .lieavj; milk flow of the j Ayrshire.'-cbmbined .often with .the .good test of -the Jersey. - " : "What-breeding do I likeyfeisst for ". produc : , I ing dairy cows?" observed a Hawera farmer. "Wbv, I like'the. Jersey-Holstem best of. all. In : .the- general, run of dairy: herds, the predominant .breed'is'tho Shorthorn. . , ~ '- mers ' should run'-, a'Holstein bull with them, a lid as the" Holstein blood is very strong, its influenco will be very deeply marked m the progeny.. On that progeny .tliero. should, later 'on; bo Jnated ,a, Jersey bull, , and. the final 'jesalt- is likely to: be ?animals .of splendid milking qualities." .- ': - "Save mo,-" said a most unorthodox Tavanaki dairy-farmer, "from a cow with a big udder." .What's wroDg .with the" big .udder ? queried a reporter. : "It won't wear," pursued the man from .Taranaki. . It is so sensitive that, at the .least .blow- or scratch, mammitis develops, and perhaps two or piore, quarters go blind. That is .a' serious loss. As a matter of- actual fact, these j big-udder jjcows, rarely last longer than two' or',three seasons. But. givo me, not tho. cows: of .heavy yields,, but ,n' herd of averago. cows :t!iat will stand the wear." This opinion is worth attention' by' Mr. Cuddie, and the :Carterton'.Yield Testing Association.-" Tho veterinary inspection .of , stallions,' initiated at the .Manawatu. Show tliis season, was' in', operation (Mr. Gawn,states) at'tho Duuedin; horse parado last year. ' Tho inspection applies only to : the great class for' tho. 50-guinea cup. No horse'nlay compete.for that.cap.unless first •inspected .and passed-as ■ sound.-/, Last year's, winner. was Mr? Gardiner's , imported nprse. There appears to be, a fairly, general opinion' in favour qf tho innovation being more widely applied, at the shows of Dominion. - , : :'"I ; havo .visited New' South Wales,. Victoria, and- . Queensland, including, tho Darling Downs,". saysf Mr. A. .Donald,' ,tlie well-known ■dairy-farmer of Wairarapai "and I hayo come tothe,conclusion that'if.l were about to. makea beginning, in dairying again, . I would start in-Jsow Zealand?, after all." , ; A paragraph; has • been, going rounds of thonowsfiapori '.that. the price' paid by : Mr. William Beil,, of : Marlborough,. for; Mr.. ahort's first prize (Hastings) Romney. rain hogget, with which 'Mr. -Bell lorthwith won the .'champion- : ship':' at ' tlio Marlborough' . Jubileo Show, ' was five:, hundred guineas; The price. really* paid ;'was,filty guineas.' ..it is Said'.that Mr. Bell's' order , to ,llr.'.,Short ,was for' a/ram that would beat everything'at the .great jubilee show, and •ho .Svill" no'-doubt bo' well pleased. at ; the., manner ."in IwJiibh the order .was filled; : Oi\e of ■ Mr. ::E. Short's, imported four-year-old - Clydesdale : mares recently . slipped twin foalsi On'o had been dead about six weeks. It .ii! a singular fact that mare 3 very rarely to; .n;!-,successful '.birth;.-'.. A twin 'means .a wasted. eeo^nt^'3i{Chv^rti(&'' 'of it'as tho : .foals are cafrie%^TKV^S^a^!' :, W ■ ' w ' n .^ oa ' s ' a tWs instance?.tfafc . an'.,En!glisli: horse, each. of-.'., the imported .quartet -i having, been previously inatetl -to':.four of .'.the best British horses s that. could be got, .- .; ■' -. '