ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 315, 14 July 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NOTES *AND COWMEN I S Darkest so:l s are the. most fertile. If anyone out-3 down forest kioes in Denmark ho must plant an equal area. With new trees. ■ .Of th« world's cotton crop, the Unik'd States of .Arherica- grow more than twothirds.

Some fm® crops of swedes arc to bo found in the Inohclutha district (Otago) and prices up to £27 per acre liavc hecn paid lot them.

More tliau 50,000,000 .'acres of land in Western Canada have 'wen opened up fur .settlement and cultivation since 1870.

Two rams belonging to a Marvport farmer had' it fierce duel, charging each other so violently that one animal had its neck broken.

Edendale (Southland) has >s okl what is termed its “hack-end” cheese «t equal to about Is lOd lor buttoi--I'at. . ..

The Now Zealand'Sheep breeders’ Association has / allotted the gold medal .for best; 2-toqth - ; Southdown j-iim- to the next Masterton 6liou. Only sheep from registered flocks can compete. • ' . ' ’

15 luck fa cod lambs, havo made thcii a ppea rance on some "'properties in the Bulls district. : It is eipected that lain hi ng wi ll become genera l in the Wanganui and (lUngitlkei districts in August and Septctr.-lwr,' and. Chat tho percentages will be s'atisraetorj. <•

' What is'believed to bo'tho hirgest flourmilling transaction in the world.s history was completed at Toronto by the final payment of a chequ* of .C‘6o,ooo' on a contract covering aetpal shipments of - ,£d.2f 9,000- Tvpjth of high-grade, flour to the' order of; the Soviet Government.

The, opnion Was expressed by All It. Ik 15. Watson, at Oamaru that line-breeding or ind)reeding was most desirable. .It had produced some Q f 'the best' stoflwof The . dloiiiinion. At- the same time, it- should only ‘be Undertaken by experts, and those who understood thb: business. . ..,

A contract has .-wen yeeured- by oiic of the .Auckland, freezing companies for the. supply, .of, 4900 cases of cartned meats to the* Natif.il . Island Administration, for th& hibourfcr on the' phosphate workings. 'This business, 'which represents ovcr' , *» year’s supply, vias sf'bufed' in competition with Australian firms. .. V

“If a dairy farmer .is. seeking increased .production,.: the finest, slogan for him to adopt is/ Weed 7 breed and food 1-li-Mr ,A:; E:-.Alisseii- speaking at ilic anmtal district meeting of Pukekura suppliers and shareholders to tho N.Z. Dairy,!Go., at Cambridge. This slogan wa.s urged bv .Air Dernier, of Cheltenham, some years ago.

“It is an offence to tether bulls and calves in. the open,’’ suhl Mr White, inspector to tho Canterbury branch of vim executive “But still many people, who are evidently not aware of the Act are doing this. The animals must be provided with shelter. .Mr White said that some people left the beasts tethered in open paddocks in all sorts of weather.

“When wo give a scholar a packet of carrot seeds and instruct him t<j sow them) we do not aim to inukii jiim. a farmer,” said Mr 11. Leofi Wilson, headmaster of the Marion D.U. School. ‘‘We teach him to think of the best possible way To gel results and it is alter the pupil leaves school and goes on the land that ho is taught farming. . School agricultural instruction is achieving a great amount of good.”

fa June, ‘I92Q, a .New Zealand sheep farmer, whilst a tending to some great flocks 61 sheep, lost his gold watch. He soon discovered that it had somehow fallen from his pocket hut, try as he .would, he could not find it on the ground near. lie wassimply astounded this,year when the watch was returned to him (it had his name and address engraved dp side) from a- city in tlie United States to which some bales ol wool had been slopped by him in If'--.

4 suburban resident ,pj, .New Plymouth a day or two; ,ago lost two valuable house cows .the. (uiimals having died from the effects , of poison, Some chi litre ii had seen red. possession of a. pot of house piuflty: and after piayiiig about with it threw the mix-ii-re aliout the grazing; J paddock. Stock arc always attracted. by and greedily devour paiirt because-of-the

liiiHoeU oil contained therein, in this 'distance the dairy cows ato the paint and in a few hours succumbed.