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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1924, Page 12

at the “pub” where Ned Kelly made his final stand when captured.

They went over to the Blue Mountains, that wonderful health resqrt for Sydney, and enjoyed the vastness and extent of that striking and picturesque mountain scenery. But Mr Murdoch is strongly of opinion that for beauty of outline and rugged grandeur there is nothing to rival New Zealand’s mountain and bush scenery.

They have daylight saving over there, and the general impression seems to be. that it is not required. The farmer has to get up, say, an hour earlier, and finds that when later in the day he goes to town the business places are closed. The farmers at least do not want the change. And it cannot be much to the benefit of the business man.

SUCCESS OF FARM SYSTEM. (Waikato Times.) In successful farm management, system and organisation are two great watchwords. They enable work to be done more quickly, more thoroughly, and with less expenditure of money and effort. They have transformed many a farm from a place of burr}" and bustle for many long hours, to a place smooth in its running and organised in every effort where required labour is performed at a specified time and in a definite manner. System and organisation are just as important on a dairy farm as they are in any other business. They constitute main lines that are necessary if the greatest success is to be obtained.

At the head of the list in systematic management stands the plan of the day’s work. This is really the backbone of the farm business. We may have land and barns and cows, and a splendid market for our products, yet without, hard, everyday labour they would be as naught. A systematic plan enables a man or a set of men to accomplish more in a day. A place for everything and everything in its place; a time for everything and doing everything at that time, constitutes a very good motto under which work may be planned and executed. - In feeding operations splendid results are secured from systematic practices. The most carefully planned farms are carrying more cows for a given area than are the farms where there is no regular plan followed. By careful planning a man is enabled to have a perfect balance of everything. Under a carefully -worked out system of cropping the farm does not run short of home-grown feeds at any critical time. System puts everything on a business basis. It. enables a man to know his income and to figure his profit. Systematic, well-planned methods of management mean success.

System has its place in herd improvement. The greatest, breeders and improvers of live stock have everlastingly followed methods which they had carefully outlined. Persistent use of the Babcock tester is necessary if a dairyman is to determine which cows are most desirable as breeders. Systematic work in this will eliminate the unprofitable cows, and will enable a man to retain only the ones that are profitable. Herds have doubled iheir production as a result of testing for a few years.. That being the. case, it has everything to its commendation and nothing ,to its condemnation. Hence system on any farm'is to be welcomed and not to be shunned.