ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1130, 18 June 1927, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

NEWS, VIEWS AND COM- , MENTS. * \:PA.. * "V'V : „ . William Condon, wool buyer, oi Master tuii,y jlias been adjudged a batiknipt- -on. his own petition. Skim • milk and butter milk are especially- valuable in lbe development of breedinig stock. In. breeding uniinnl.y % "pit'lltv of good, quality bone is essential,, and milk is a bone builder. When a man is seen struggling with. a. plough it is generally because it is not set properly, and if not,, file plough should nol have been purchased. Id it diet does .not increase, fat in milk, though proteid to e.n extent does . The protcids, sugar and salts, found in milk are secreted in the ordinary way from the blood stream, or lymph ,circulating ill the; .lands. It we consider the many advant_ ages gained by having a good dump of mangolds to feed sheep from in the winter and ispring months, the cost, is usually more than compensated for. The .Mangatoki Dairy Co. has decided to pay a. bonus of 3d on February supply, bringing the payment for the season un to February to Is 3d . This will mean a total payment of £3OOO in addition to the ordinary monthly payment. .Mr H, Itiieleleukla ii, of North Otago, nays he has not yet completed the threshing of his wheat . He had had four mills at work, as lie had to deal with the produce of 2000 acres. Ho is putting about 1-300 acres under wheat this season. Crass is a crop which responds well to cultivation, and more aldeiilinn must die paid to cultural opera lions if pastures are to he unproved. dust as we have improved our breeds of stock to a remarkable degree in. the lust few years by scientific breeding, so we can look for a great increase in production in our graiss lands under scientific treatment.

The ,-heese factories m Taranaki ore now either closing down fur a welcome spell or changing over lo butter-making for the brief roimuud C r of the season. The Low garth Co. which entered four exhibits at the New Plymouth Show and took four first prizes, lias further to its credit, and In the credit of its manager and staff, hat about 0-3 per cent. ‘>l its output of cheese graded “finest.’ the rest “first grade” and no second grade.

In. spite of a couple of periods of cold and wet weather, the ploughing of lea lands has been proceeded with all over North Otago, hut the area of ground turned over this year is soi new ha less than was the ease last year, and this is especially the- ease in. the southern districts. r l he kind has been in good working condition up till just, recently, and the latehad. spell should he sufficient to move farmers generally to take the I idlest advantage pi the keen I rests which prevail just .now

It, is astonishing that so lew people realise the enormous, extent ol the purely pastoral hinds of the Dominion as compared with those that ere suitable for the cattle ol lln dairy or for the crops 01. the Isold. Lot it he realised (runs a passage in ail interesting article in the Ne-v Zealand farmer) that the lands ol the mountain chain ol the South island are, where occupation is at all possible, purely pastoral eounlij. There is, in comparison, w.ith that contry, merely a, Iripge oi cultivatal.de land along the eastern coast, with the addition of certain valleys that'do Plot jpci.itrate deeply towards the interior. In the north there may not he' (psite so great a proportion of pa.sldral country, Imt the soil and Ihe physical features of many parts: -of that island delinc Ihe nature ol its occupation. It is not that ol the Cow, or the crops ol the held, or the animal for latteming. It is the sheep with, im. favoured districts, young growing cattle.

There Inn e, been many excellent crops seen by Iho judge ol the competitions instituted by the J 1 armors Union during the past, but nothing yet to equal the remarkably line crop of mangolds grown by Mr. Jl. Belts, of Okaiava (says the llawera Star). When it is recalled that Mi' Belts is over 90 yea is of ago, the record is still more striking. 'I ho crop actually is the largest yet inspected in the history of the competitions throughout Taranaki and Wanganui, The weight per aero—the area crowwas hall; an acre —worked out ot 128 tons 19 cwt and it will be of interest t<> record that the mex! best- b.avo

been a Maxwclltowli -crop, lid tuns, and Air J. IF Mine's crop at Toko, 111 tons. Another feature worth recording is that it was mainly u transplanted, crop, a practice usual years go, but of late years considered not satisfactory. “It is just like a eliild's plot on a large scale,” said Mr Dean when the result was known, “and Mu re is practically not a single miss. It is the- best field crop J have ever Keen,” lie added The members were most enthusiastic, and ga\c three hearty cheers for the veteran.