GENERAL FARM NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3037, 26 March 1917, Page 8

GENERAL FARM NOTES

To illustrate the necessity of proper persons managing dairy farms during tho owners' absence, it was mentioned by one speaker at Saturday's meeting at Paliiatua that a herd belonging to him had been ruined by being milked once a day in tbo spring. Another instance of tho same thing is reported [ to have happened in the same district. I The past few weeks havo probably proved as near a drought as Taranaki has ever been, and but for several heavy dews the effect of tho lack of rain would have been much more apparent. The dust nuisance has proved a source of great annoyanco in many places. In an address on the Otago Expansion, League in Diinodin last week, Air. W. D. Hunt, the representative of Otago on tho National Efficiency Board, made somo remarks on tho deterioration of the pastoral lands of Otago. Tkeso lands, he said, ought to carry two million more sheep than they do. While all the other'occupied lands of New Zealand, as a result of their occupation and development, had been goiDg tip and up in valuo and-' productive capacity these pastoral lands of the Crown had been'going down, and down and down in producing value and monetary value until to-day tho annual rents on these pastoral lands in the South Island were such that they would pay only 5 per cent, interest on 3sari acre. Tho whole trouble was due to the tenure on-which tho land was heM. It was the worst tenure that the wit of man could'devise. The man who destroyed his country and took tho most possible out of it was rewarded, and the man who tried to improve Ms country was penalised robbed. Hundreds of thousands of young men had gone to the North kland, because there tho tenure encouraged and protected improvements though there was befcter-land in the south.. /

At a, meeting of the General Committee of the Egmont A. and IJ. Association on Saturday, a' resolutionNvas carried strongly recommending tho annual meeting of members next month to consider tho advisableness of abandoning the show during tho war.—Press Assn.

■ It is noteworthy that cheese made in the famous Victor Vats has been markedly successful in capturing most of the prizes at the Dairy Shows—and moreover in getting the highest market prices; Tho middle drainage and sloping bottom of this famous Vat enables the whey to drain away moro thoroughly and. quickly. That's why so many of the best factories use only the -Victor. 'Get fuller "details from A. J. PABTON, Sheet Metal and Plumbing Works, Pembroke Street, Carterton.—Advt.