ON THE LAND

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 7

ON THE LAND

News, Views and Comments

Give hens sour skim milk. It means both more and larger eggs- The size of eggs does not depend on the number laid, hut on such factors as food quantity, proportion of animal protein meal—which is superior to vegetable protein meal—plentiful supply of limo and sufficient green food- Skim milk of course supplies the necessary protein and appears to do so in the most dige s t i hie form. SHEEP SPECULATION A Sydney writer says : The high prices ruling for store sheep are purely speculative: Young wethers, which last season brought, from 7s to, 10s arc realising from 20s to 2-ss. I saw saw a line of 5000 two-tooths sol,! in Riverina at 25/6 cash and there was nothing exceptional about them. “Gummy” ewes, whose normal value is a. couple of bob. are up to 10/-. Paying these extreme prices is ’▼.amblin'™ on the weather and the wool market— a notoriously risky business. dual drilling Drilling lime in with the seed is more economical than spreading it over the field and harrowing it in. This is especially true of crops grown in rows. GROWING MANES If you cut a horse’s mane and tail and wish it to grow quickly mix surpliur and sweet oil to a consistency of cream and apply three times a week, rubbing it well in. Before each application wash the parts well with soap and waterSOLID UNDERFOOT To make a solid indoor sepeirator floor, thoroughly mix equal parts of sandy soil and super—the lot which got wet and caked so* that it would not go through the combine will do if broken up pretty small- Moisten with enough water to make a firm paste and lay down. Before it (is quite dry, freely apply (with a brush) a good thick coating of liquid super. THE LARGE WHITE It is the English type of Large White rather than the Canadian type that is required, declared a keen breeder the other day. The English type is a lowset wide pig, with good flat bone. j!|he Canadian type is apt to be a narrow leggy round-honed animal. It is not many men who can improve on the English breeder in the production of live stock. RYE L AND SHEEP A Sydney writer says: Although the Ryclankl has been a success in Victoria and South Australia, for many years, its merits have been overlooked furr tiler north until recently, when its rise to favour among fat lamb breeders has led to the transfer of the leading stud of the bred from Victoria, to Wa.gga acclimatised in that district should do well anywhere in N.S.W. and Queensland. The Wagga stud has been built up from selected New Zealand and English stock and has been further strengthened by periodical purchases of champion prize winning rams at the English Royal Show, the grand champion of 1933 being the latest importation. The Ryeland is a Downs type a prime favorite with exporters. Besides having the good points of the Southdown in shapely joints and quick maturity, it is highly resistent to footrot, and has a white face and points and a much superior fleece. The wool is of 56’s quality and samples grown near Canberra show good length and a distinctive attractive crimp not usually associated with English short-wool breeds. The lambs are ready for marketing at nine to teu weeks. Threemontli lambs have gone 901 b live weight. SHEEP ON DAIRY FARMS There are few herds of Idairy cows which could not he improved hv the culling of the less profitable cows, and if the culling he drastic by including all the border-line cows sheep could he introduced, with great profit.

Here success largely depends on giving the sheep the management they should have, and one of the most important points of management is in preventing the grass getting away. Sheep will only thrive on short grass, just as cows thrive best on grass in the leaf stage though the grass for cows should not he as short as that for sheep. Stalky fibrous grass is bad for all classes of producing animals and where it is not balanced by some good protein food is the cause of much digestive trouble. Partic ularTt- do young sheep suffer bv flavine- to live on fibrous grass. At this time of the year medicine s bought for lambs hut tile cause of the trouble the fibrous innutritions grass, still remains their sole diet.