ON THE LAND

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 7

ON THE LAND

NfcwS, VIEWS AND COMMENTS. Sick animals should be kept clean and put oh fresh pastures well sheltered from tho prevailing winds. A soil which is unable to throw off an excels of water becomes cold and' damp. 0 f; p o r-' If oue.irrWishes to have none but profitable cows in his herd, he should breed from that class of cow. Diseased?.ftnbCrs of potatoes should' be buriift ,#|d- must never be employed for seed. ifufiij& Jipt weiathcr ;i>igs ' should havevpr^fpotion from tlie direct rays of the sun. : ‘ .. .. f lu,; are several farms whef^'ji^fes! ( a're bred for making violin/ from! their hair. . By - sowing at frequent intervals a succession of green feed can be arranged bn the. farm for a large part of the year. ■ Half of, the ration fed to a <; oW goes towards the production of milk, and the other halt towards tlie maintenance of her body. « In selecting pigs for breeding, select the kind that is required by your pig buyer, and also a breed that will grow rapidly, a

Breeding animals, particularly prior and during mating, should be fed op succulent and protein rich foods. Calves should always he fed at regular intervals ■ This is an important factor in the promotion of rapid growth. Those who criticise silage ai'o the people who have never led it. The earful man who. has used it would not thing of trying to dairy without it. The rolling of land tends to make it warmer during bright clear weather, but during cold or cloudy weather it has the opposite effect. Pedigree ram lambs should be segregated when they reach the age of six. months as they reach maturity earlier than others. Experiments have proved that there is - a difference of as much as 1.0 degrees in the temperature ,of drained and uudrained fields side by side.

Whichever wav lucerne is sown, the land chosen 'for the purpose should lie 'in good condition), and* a fine seed bed should be prepared which is free from weeds. Mr H. Crosbie, of Dannevirke, lias been appointed' manager of the Belvedere Co-operative Dairy Factory], and' has entered upon Ins duties. There are some healthy looking crops of potatoes in the Te Aroha district this season. Several crops are now flowering, and in spite of, tlio season experienced blight Inis not yet shown itself to any extent. Warm rains have resulted' in some lino crops of hay promising in. the Te Aroha area. Paddocks are as high as the fences, and given a few fine- days during harvesting some heavy crops will Ixy gathered. The generative system of animals is largely dependent upon their nutrition so that consistent shortage of food, as well as the irregularity of the supply of food, forms the simplest form of "malnutrition, and results in impaired breeding powers.

“Possession of a largo tract of valuable land.-does not necessarily mean that a man is.wealthy in New Zealand nowadays,” remarked Mr Justice Ostler. “A man may be quite wealthy on paper and yet perilously, .close..to the bankruptcy court under opy;.p resent system. ’ ’ .•Mr; ■ The United States is the, largest user of calfskins such as New Zealand produces New Zealand skins mostly weigh from 41b to 61b., with a percentage of 61b to 81b. Germany lias recently been, buying skins 81b and' upward and has also been taking a percentage of 61b to 81b. Hay and ensilage forms, as it were the sinking fund in a. farmer’s business, to be drawn on in time of scarcity and waiit. Sue], periods u're always to be met with, and it is the wise farmer who harvests his surplus crops in time of plenty and stores them for ,use during the lean months. One of the liest judges of fat stock and general farming in ?vew Zealand' has recently been on a business trip through both islands, and is now in Southland. He stated to a News re-

presentative that the grass is just as far forward and as good in Southland' as in any other district he. has visited. Fowls do not like oyster shell that is stale or full of dirt. - Where they ni'o not consuming if freely at this season you can depend upon it that something is wrong. Often the trouble is that the hoppers are so dark that tli© birds eahnot readily see to eat from them. • .... < • i . . Swedes and turnips differ from, mangels in being shallow-rooted and therefore require their food in a soluble form near the surface. Phosphoric acid is the ingredient they .have the most difficulty in obtaining from the soil, so artificial mixtures used for the swede crop should consist largely of phosphates in some form or otheri'

Farmers constitute the largest automobile- owning class in Western Canada. Of 241,226 ears in the three Prairie Provinces, 156,796 or 65 per cent, are in the. hands of farmers, according to a survey by Manitoba Government. authorities. Begistration of automobiles in : Canada at present totals 719,206 or nn average of one to every 11.8 people. At the recent Spring Show of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society, Mr E. D. Holt, of Bay View, gained first andsecond prizes in the expert class witjj two pens of Jambs which find , come from seven-year-old ewes. Although it is not unique for a ewe to attain an age of seven years, it is unusual for ewes of that age to have prize-gaining offspring.