ON THE LAND

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 7

ON THE LAND

NEWS, VIEWS AND COMMENTS

The Bull’s* Part A gotxl hull is more than half the herd and a poor 'bull is all of the ruined herd. Cow Oiifcjtis, Sheep Wool is.rto longer the leading industry of” Australia. In the post season the value of the exports of dairy produce from Australia were valued at £39,000,000 against £29,000.000 for wool and £26,000,000 for wheat. In 1928-29 Australia, exported 127,00 turns of butter. 130,000 in 1929-30, 159,000 tons in 1930-31 and’ 176,000 tons in 1931 32, the increase from 1929 to 1932 being no less than 39 per cent. Making Pit Silage Pit silage i s made by firrt digging out. a long pit from two to five feefc doeip by four to five yards ill width, with sloping ends, so that carts can ho led in at'tine and, after pnssii’iK over the material already dcipcfjited, out at the other on<l, Thi s assists in consolidation, of the material in the pit. Some growers prefer to lead the carts at iu reside to prevent coil falling wheels when drawn over, but in tlii s also plenty of trending bv the men levelling the material should be insisted on. Lambs and. Breeds Tho English market requiiefc a rather light lamb, well developed, and sufficiently lat, according to Professor Perkins, Director of Agriculture, who spoke to York Peninsula, (Queein»la.nd) fanners .recently. Certain characteristics in the flesh counted on the English market, he said. Down breeds, usually c«ueommanded, a better price than the white-faced sheep like the Border Leicester or the Dorset. Horn. So far as he was concerned, all the long, wool English breeds —Bolder Leicester, English Leicester, Romney Marsh a.nd .Lincoln—were out of court. Rums of they-e four breeds produced the half bred ewe used to produce the fat lamb, hut were not ,n« au immediate she for expor w purposes. The choice therefore wn<s par rowed down to the' three Down types- Southdown, Suffolk n.nd' Shropshire, ivnd then Dorset Horn with the white face. Aweither breed found in the s.O’iith-eat wac th,e Ryoland, which aho had a. white face, | hut .a better development than the forget Horn. Future of the Horse Tho revival of the horse iu parts of Australia, brought m its train activity in associate trades t'na,& has

.given quite a, limp to misniVss in country to wins, a.-, well as to minor oity factories. The demn.UiCi \ior horses such as lorry, va.n ? and farm types, and lighter sorts suitable for sulky and saddle is well maintained at oncornragi n.g prices, and there is also general interest in breeding Saddlers and harm vs maker s are finding that their trades have como “back from the grave.” »as it were. For them there is •< a increasing volume of work, such as they have not linowu in, tho last 10 years. A leading Sydney firm reports having sold more saddles in the last couple of months than in the previous two years. Incidentally a saddle-tree maker who had been .at a low ebb i s turning out 250 a week. The farrier also has come into his own again, while the eoachbuildcr has taken a .new lease of life. The latter’s role, however, is mainly confined to sulky work. It is remarkable to see liow the varied collections of derelict sulkies that crowded the yards of ceaelibuildcrp and blacksmiths in large country towns have, disappeared. They leave bee*: i*°(colucjtr noted and recO'iii:niJ.s«ion.eid' to take the place of oars •oat. the road. With it -all many Imndrcds of men of these phi trades .are finding reemployment. Rycjgrass in Southland ,! i 'iv.ny ’..«i>uttilaud grower has made a success of grow ing Hawke's 1 kiy ryegrass wit h sced cUroct fl'om tlio north it Mould 1 e of great interest to hear under wliat eendiitioms 'it, was* sown and grown, says tho •Southland Times. Riant lile and a.nim.a-1 life have many tilings in common an,d if a breeder ’brought sheep direct from Hawke’s Bay liilfs i and put them out to winter on the Tahiti mo,s there would bo a disastrous loss. That io -easily understood, but that need not deter the ewjier of a stud flock from bringing selected sheep from tile north to improve bis if.v.k as lie would raturally give them e-x'.Lva. nttcntioLi. r l’ho principle’ applies witli equal force to r.vegracs • < ed. There is no i-easo.n. why th-e growing .of Hawke’s Bay fr.eed should. l.vit *Lo made a success by beginning c.-j a small seali.c favourable positions and by liea^

lire, t- ing work into high grade seed, equal to Hie mother produce, which hcV.g a eel invalided would Assuredly have a higher germination percentage tlia,n .any imported tram the gen Lai climate of the northern province.