AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3174, 6 December 1927, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

The hide, with its covering, is always a register of condition and vitality. An unduly thin hide, lacking pliability, or a very harsh, tough hide, is invariably associated with other evidences of weakness in some form. *' * * Let us put our attention to the perfecting of our herds rather than the increasing of them, and our profits will necessarily be greater, because it takes no more to feed a first-class cow than it does to feed a scrub. * * * The Japanese Government has selected ten one-year stud ewes and one stud ram of the same age from the Bulgandra stud of Senator J. F. Guthrie (Albury, New South Wales). This is the third repeat order for Corriedales, which Senator Guthrie's stud has supplied for the Japanese Government. * * * The escutcheon of dairy cattle should be well defined (to those expert enough to see it, though many farmers still aver there is "nothing in it"). The hair from the inside of the thighs to the outside, and also from the scrotum, should be found growing in'an upward direction. The horizontal markings should be high up. * # * Prior to weaning, young pigs should be gradually accustomed to foocis which will replace the mother's milk. | From about five weeks until weaning time, which is usually seven to eight weeks, they should receive, in increasing quantity, a mixture of foods such as pollard, bran, barley meal or maize, potatoes or separated milk where available.