SKIMMINGS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3141, 30 October 1922, Page 8

SKIMMINGS.

Teach your horses lo go info the collar gradually. "When a load is to be started, speak to them, and take a (inn hold of the*reins'so that they will arch their necks, keep their legs under them, and step on their toes. A loose rein means sprawling and slipping, often, with one horse ahead of the other. . From the sixth to the twelfth months a. calf should have a daily ration of grass ad lib (or in the winter time say from 51b to 101b of either mangels or swedes as an alternative), and from lib to IMb of mixed linseed cake and meal. In the winter time, lib pf good hay should be fed in addition to this ration. ■Milk is a very wholesome article of diet, but its value aw a food is often greatly reduced when kept in unclean or ''unsuitable receptacles. Rusty iron or jcfaeked earthenware vessels often contaminate milk with undesirable fernients which soon alter the nature of fresh milk. In warm weather milk soon .jSO'urg if not properly treated, hut somctfii.ics. niilk in unsuitable vessels putreitivs. slightly, and will not sour with .i distinct, acid flavor. This kind of milk ,1s most unsuitable for human eon sum p».tion. ,'... In' the Mudgeo district of N.S.W.. Mr Norman Cox, Wilbetroo. has seven acres of maize, which yielded a return of 721 bushels, an average of 103 bushels to the acre. This is claimed as a district record. The variety in (piestion is known as Goodra Vale, and was grown on land which has not been disturbed for 70 years. What surely must be a record for a litter of pigs was established recently at the. farm of Mrs Bradley, at Malobo, near Wagga. A two-year-old nerkshire sow gave birth to 19 pigs. One died next day. but the remaining IS are doing remarkably well. With pig values at their present level this sow and her progeny represent a small goldmine to their owner. An English Red Poll cow. Grewsenhall, Molly, has created a record in the matter of milk yields, for on Januarv 4. in 42 Aveeks six days, she bad yielded 18.0244.1b. of milk, with an average of 4 per cent, of butter-fat. Her seven-months-old bulT calf was purchased l bv Viscount Folkestone for L IOOO for bis herd at Longford l in Wiltshire. The weight of milk required to make lib of cheese is generally roughly put at about a gallon. Much, of course. depends upon the state of maturity demanded in cheese produce, for the more mature the cheese is when sold, the smaller the weight. Farmers generally reckon that in maturing ordinary Cheddar or Cheshire cheese, there if a wastage of about 7 per cent.