ON THE LAND

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 9 April 1931, Page 7

ON THE LAND

NEWS, VIEWS AND COMMENTS New Zealand's future prosperity depends On the intelligent, manuring of high class pasture, systematically grazed by only pro Tit able cows. In a nonuaj, average year kUe British farmer buys £67,009,900 worth oi cattle cake, feeding stuffs, etc., and sells only £'23,07)0,QU0 worth of grain. There is a great deal oi the Meed known in Hawke’s Bay as “Prince of Wales foatiler” on Hawke’s Bay flatlands this season and the .spread of tills weed has been very rapid in the past few years. R.asLure is very much like the cows for whiciY it is produced. To get the best results only seed should be used and the grass must he fed and managed in the most intelligent manner. A total oi *2,C00,748 acres of pasture land were top dressed with artificial fertilisers in New Zealand during the 3929-30 seats hi. This compares favourably with the 2,38-’), 182 acres in 1928-29. Over half the area* was dressed with superp.iosjibatcs. Faf cattle values are now very definitely on the up-grade and indications point to a, shortage of fat cattle in Hawke's Bay in the immediate future so that the hardening t<’udouev w'hinb has been n feature over the past two sales at Hastings should ooutimio in the future. — “Jac--kert o” in the Napier Telegraph. There remain five wool sales vet to be held in New' Zealand. The noxi will be at Dunedin to-morrow, followed by Timaru on April 13 ami W ellingtoii on April I<. The last two .sales of the series are set down Hr Napier on April 2L, and Wanganui on April 23, hut, it is probable some rearrangement will be made in regard to these fixtures. The Scott is'i Farmer gives particulars of .a *mw potato. Arran Filet, a MTvlv o earlv vrTu i), which has been sold lately at the satisfactory price of £lO per stone ‘A sound price,” says: the Earmcr “but it has been exceeded by the figure realised by the* Arrau Banner, when it was hist luL oil the market.’ * According to a statement by a 1 >r;iidfcti’d e u.i espendent published in a leading London journal success has attended . experiments with wool and rayon mixtures to eliminate creasing. Bom c beautiful materials are said to to have been produced loir which a good demand seems tu be indicated. T'.io elotli is manufactured so that it ea.u l)o retailed at 4s lid per yard downward, and is made as dress fabric or in lieav ior costume weights. Tuberculosis in cattle, that great scourge of farthing, 'may one day be eliminated from t|'ie Empire’s herds if the success of• threie* years’ experiments carried out at Cambridge University and financed by the Empire Marketing Board, is followed up. These expe.rimciuts show that the immunisation of calves against bovine tuberculosis with B.C.G. vaccine * s definitely practicable. Said a CaJiterbury farmer : “I have a paddock of wheat stubbie wlmj i sheep are using as a run oil from rape. In the stubble is some Cali-' l'oinian thistle which 1 treated with sodium Chlorate last week. Next day I went to look at it and found all the plants lying dead on the surface with six inches of root on them. Wiieu the thistles wilted the ewes tried to, eat them, and pulled them out t- ! the bottom of the fur-row.” According to scientific investigation in Canada, in regard to tie production of eggs for hatching, the cheap grades of meat meal are of little value. This point is of the greatest in.Dorta.nee, |a*r many people think meat meal is meat meal. We want officially conducted experiments to determine tlie value of standard brands of meat meals. In the light of presen t * knowledge M e see no reason (says an Irish .writer) to change our belief that .where- it is available the best and safest source of protein for breeding /stock is milk. Tlu? revival of the horse gat’u.rs pace in Australia arid in the main corresponds with the great number of motor car registrations that are being turned in in that country, and t’:e number of farm tractors that arc being laid up. The return to tinhorse has become a matter of necessary economy with many farmers and ciL&r oou-try people. T~e largely

in,creased area, of wheat last season o:iilled lip thousands more horse:; for farm -work, and with the coincident adpaaiee in fuel oil, did much to restore the horse to fu.voiE- Gfnud classes of farm and lorry types have been selling well at all tlie important market towns in the wheat districts, y/yy'.S.V'.