A NEW HANDBOOK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 8

A NEW HANDBOOK.

We haw to acknowledge receipt of a valuable work, entitled "Agriculture in New Zealand." Hi*, author of which is Sir. Harold W. Hesse, 8.A., B.Sc, curator of the Wanganui Museum. The boo'.-, deals most interestingly and instructively with (lie practice of farming in New Zealand, and should be of particular use in that the different crops are treated from the practical viewpoint of the farmer rather than the highly scientific, aspect. The various' stibjects"afe treated in a concise and very'readable form, and include the principles of fallowing, manures, cereal crops, root crops, cabbages, rape and kale, fodder crops and grasses, and' an exhaustive article on potatoes and potato blight. _ During the course of an interesting article on ensilage, the writer F«fs out tho following advantages to be claimed for this process of preserving fodder:—

(1) It mates us independent of weather; (2) it is an exceedingly simple and effective method of dealing with nil descriptions of green fodder; IX) it enables the firmer to at once clear his paddock, and thus promotes the growth cf the aftermath. Live stock may then be run nnon it_ven- shortly nfter cutting, instead of being kept riff until the hnv i= securedTO in many eves it liable* lh« farmer to proceed without delay with the breakn<r up of the bind after faddor crop* in l\t T m -f, in ~ nrniw '"• o|b "' ™'l jr P rV 1 !;? s . Wn fo, ""l f " iwrrvs the B„ v - „f milk , n rows; (f,) silage UHn is of better colour fin,, that „,„l e f rom eows feeding ou hnvov fm-nins: (',) ml w unless sivon ~, «,essivo <nnntil.i°s, nrnl duces mil).- of flavour In fW produced after feeding'with turnip.. TV "Titer goe= ,nf,r, tl,, „.],„],, „, Ip;f ; nl nf tV preparation of ensilage clenrlv an J