FARMING NOTES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3142, 6 November 1922, Page 8

FARMING NOTES.

HECO.RD CROP OF WHEAT. The country has "been startled by a statement in the Manitoba Free Press that the Western wheat crop this year will reach 371,000,000 bushels from a total acreage of 21,471,000 acres, the Toronto correspondent of the London Times wrote on September 20. This estimate exceeds by ten millions the famous crop of 101-'). The .journal estimates the total yield of all grains in the West at 900,000,000 bushefe.

It has apparently l>ecn discovered as harvesting proceeds and the yield pel' acre .is more clearly established that the crop is far greater than had been expected. The previous estimates! this vear have varied from 297,000,000 bushels to 350,000,000. Though its wheat estimate is the most sanguine that has been made, unquestionably for many years tho Free Press report has been more reliable than any other estimates sent out from Western Canada.

The 1922 season shows in marked degree the wonderful recuperative powers of the Prairie Provinces. Over a. very large wheat area in Saskatchewan, after unduly delayed seeding, no general rain fell for 99 days, and in spite of this on well-cultivated lands yields have already been threshed that run from 25 to 30 bushels, though these aire not general in such districts. The Free Press allso calls attention to tho recovery of the Manitoba section, which suffered tremendous damage from hail in .June. LAST SEASON'S WOOL STATISTICS. Dalgoty and Co.'s annual wool review contains interesting information concerning the New Zealand clips of tho past few years, from which we extract tho following:— 1921-22 1920-21 Weight 191,613,000 181.480,000 Ft eduction . 533,000 520.000 Oversea shipments .... 926,631 172,686 Total sales ... 107.381 198.(541 Merino -ales 12,41-4 Crossbred sales 454.067 Greasy 102.953 Scoured 1,42* Fleece. etc. 156,208 Lambs' wool U.17.'l Value tsales) 04.207,307 02,300.017 The following countries bought New Zealand wool in 1921-22:—Great Britain 337.034, France 8.667. Belgium and Holland 000. Germany 25, 619. Austria. Italy and Switzerland 2,884, Tinted States and Canada 50,222. .lapan, China and India 10,868, i ":al mills 31,487 hales. SKIMMINGS. It has been said that an agricultural country can never reach its maximum state of development until its farmers engage extensively in dairying. This principle is now universally recognised, and the countries following the best farming method's are those producing the highest pel 1 capita output of milk, butter, and cheese. The average eheese yield may be taken as one" pound from a, gallon of milk. During the spring of the year, when the milk is naturally of poor quality, a gallon of it would not yield a pound of cheese, but during the latter part of the season the milk becomes richer and consequently more eheese is obtained from it. The higher the fat content of milk the more casein it contains also, thus rich milk is best for cheese-making.

In the "better bulls" campaign n America poster pictures aro used to attract attention. The poster reproduces actual pictures, taken on the farm, of a calf, together with its purebred sire and grade dam. as an illustration of the result of using a good sire on a grade cow. It also reproduces picture.-" of typical Shorthorn, Hereford, and Aberdeen-Angus bulls, with this explanation:—"The sort of bulls that put quality in your herd and money in your pocket." Bounce the Boairder Cow. —You may have bought her cheap, and thought you had found a bargain. Perhaps you paid a good price lor her. No matter what she cost she is the most expensive cow in your herd. She is a luxury you cannot afford to keep. It you are sure you are feeding right, and still you can't make her jingle enough "sweet music" in the milkpail night and morning, then Ihe sooner her bail is empty the better. The good cow will pay her own way; the poor one never can, but her hide will make line leather. Then why deny her the vocation for which she was intended. Holland has 50(1 co-operative horse insurance societies, insuring 70.(100 animals, and Belgium ;tdl) societies ami 50,00(1 animals. As ,i consequence of ihe a-wvi-drought in Rhodesia. South Africa., no prize money wax awarded a! this year's Bulawayo Show. Mice are so had in New South Wales that instances have heen recorded of the pests having been found nesting in the fleeces of sheep. With a view of purchasing stud stock for Java, Mr .J. Bloemcndal, a veterinary officer of the Netherlands Government of Java, has arrived in Sydney. The total number of sheep in the Dominion ol New Zealand is 22.215.17:1. us tuUvu «« Aywil 'M. TUis is a dvcrea.se of 1,038,558 over Hie 1921 figures. Several linns in Argentina are exporting live cattle, most of which are being sent to Antwerp. Outside these firms several estancieros are contemplating sending live cattle to Etuo|x.\ The German Central Livestock Sale Association at Berlin owns a r-toro stock market of 07 acres, through winch some 15,000 truckfuls of store I leasts pass annually, to the benefit alike ol buyer and seller. It is reported thai the British Treasury has agreed to the expenditure of 0850,000 with interest in the next live yearsi for agricultural education and 1 research, also that the existing grants hi- retained. A paper tolls how to polish the horns of a bull for the show ring, but it docs not explain how the bull should lie fastened while liis horns are being polished. Some bulls object seriously to any manipulation about their head. Recently there were slopped from Brisbane 020 heifers. 20 hulls, and 0 horses for .Messrs Kitchen and Sons, who have cocoanut plantations in Papua. The cattle are required to keep down the grass on the plantations, and were to be taken to .Milne Hay, near Samarai. Tin South African Friesian heifer Melrose Diliana. which realised 1300 guineas at the recent sale m Kngland. secured the female championship at. Cambridge Royal Show. The male champion was the winner in the two-year-old (lass. Hacbe Ccrjan t'ly>scs. shown by Ihe Macho herd and sired by the well-known Hedges Second Series.' "The day has arrived for the new type of employer, one who neither fears nor lights bis workpeople, but who identifies their interests with his own. and founds his relationship with them on the law of mutual service." This the opinion of Mr 11. F. Lancashire. Chairman of .1. B. Lewis and Sons. Ltd.. of Nottingham, England, who visited Sydney recently.