A WORLD'S RECORD AVERAGE.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 10

A WORLD'S RECORD AVERAGE.

What is described as a world's record average for Hereford stock was recently obtained in America, when 62 Horefords from tho one breeder realised £37,370, or an average of £602. Assuredly these figures have never Been approached. Tho breeder was Colonel E. H. Taylor, of Hereford Farms, Frankfort, Kentucky. Tho best prioe of the sale was £2770 for a five-year-old cow, an English and Amcripau champion, Cliv© Iris 3rd, with a. bull calf at foot; £1560 was given for a hoife'r calved in September, 1916, £1540 for a three-year-old heifer, £1520 for a yearling-, and £1400 for a five-year-old cow. Tho best price for a bull was £1200 for a, two-year-old.

At a Hereford sale a fow days before 101 hoad averaged £217, the best price being £2400 for a yearling bull.

According to a correspondent of tho Melbourne- Leader, paper pipes wore used in Australia about the year 1852, being imported from America. The paper was kept in position with pitch, each pi[>© being about 9ft long and 4in in diameter. They were fastened together by a ferrule about Sin long, which had a hole in the side, through which hot cement was poured. This mixture, it is said, was largely composed of sulphur, made up in flat, grey bricks. Pipes taken up after twenty years in the ground were found to be quite as sound as when put down.

There is a horse famine ahead, and not very far ahead at that, remarks an American paper. There will always bo need for good horses on tho farms of this country. For King hauls on smooth roads, for heavy ploughing:, particularly in largo fields, and for certain power purposes, such as threshing, silage cutting, etc., tho gas engine in a measure may take tho place of tho horse, but tho truck and tractor will never put the horse out of business.

An attempt is being made to still further improve pig breeding in Denmark by moans of 'a method of testing the offspring of the stud animals at the various brooding centres. An average of two pigs from each selected sow is sent annually to the experimental station of the breeding centre, and from the performance of theso pigs facts aro ascertained as to age at which killing- weight is attained, the food nnits required to produco a given weight, and the. quality of the bacon. Thess results aro made the basis of selection of tho stud animals, those being preferred whose descendants have shown the highest degree of thriftincss and growth onergy, arid have produced tho best bacon. This appears to be a. policy of pig-brooding qantro.l which might bo useful in this country.