What “Sundowner” Hears

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 10

What “Sundowner” Hears

In Scotland, the Nether HaH ftud of Clydesdales was sold lately. The highest price was 4400 guineas for “Benefactor,’ 1 u three-yeur-old stallion.

• • * Separated milk ooutain* all the bone-forming minerals of whole milk. Thus it is in reality a most valuable food, especially ior young stock • • •

Treacle, in a ration, acts as an appetising agent, making the foods that it is mixed with more palatable. It is also a laxative agent and helpful m a ration, otherwise somewhat binding, and has also a fattening value.

Whole milk is nature’s food for the calf, but skim-milk properly supplemented will make a feed equally as good. The following ration is one suggested in the feeding of skim-milk to calves: Ground oats, 1 part; ground barley, 1 part; wheat bran, 1 part; skim-milk and hay. From 41b to Gib of skim-milk to each 11b of grain will give the maximum gaina

The fashion, dictated mainly by clean milk enthusiasts is now for dry-handed milking. tVet-handed action is denounced as uncleanly. But is not the question one of the man rather than the method! If the bag and teats are washed before milking and also the milker’s hands there does not seem to be much in It from the clealiness point of vi«w. Wethanded milking seems the more kindly treatment of the teats, and ft Is the closer imitation of the action of the calf. The point is. Writes e correspondent in the Farmer end Stockbreeder, one that It is difficult to dogmatise upon. There are plenty who milk cleanly and well both ways. )

The Journal of Agriculture. in Ma issue of September 20th. contains a comprehensive article on the braav like disease of sheep in Hawke’s Ba,v. and its association with liver-iUU*,. It is written bv My C, S. M. Hopkins. officer in charge of the Wai laceville Veterinary Laboratory wno makes acknowledgement to Mr E. £. Elphick, M.R.C.V.8., Departmental Veterinarian at Hastings, who wrs his colleague in all the field-work eon uected with this sheep mortality.

A garden expert savs that “an ounce of tomato seeds wiU produce 3,000,000 tomatoes.’’ We know all amateur gardener who has set an ounce, and he is now going rounfl the village boking orders to dispoee of the 3,000,000 tomatoes. Thst expart ought to be glad he doesn’t live in that village.

In her wild stat* the *ow gins barely enough milk to support her young, and immediately dries up when the calf is weaned. Idle further she is removed from the wild state, through selection and breeding, the more profitable she becomes, but if this selection and breeding is not maintained through the generations she reverts to the wild state, at least so far as production is concerned.

Moisture is required for the rapid propagation of bacteria, and floats that are left wet during the day naturally harbour millions of bacteria. Open up the shed to ths rqp light, and many of these bacteria are thereby killed.

Some bacteria are more persistent to sunlight tha nothera. Typhoid germs, for instance, are killed bv being exposed to the sun for six hours. Other germs are killed in a much shorter period, but the tubeq. cule bacillius, being protected bv an oily covering, requires a longer ecposure to kill it.

Beginners who have already started the breeding of live stock are en eouraged and obtain much information at live stock shows. Breed and agricultural associations have long realised these facts, and consequently prizb money has been offered to stimulate the realisation of the ends in view.

There are 140 million head of cattle in India. The United States has the second greatest quantity with 66 mil lions, and th Argntin comes next with a total of 40 millions.

Utah ranks fifth among state* of the Union in wol production during 1927. according to the report of George A. Scott, live stock statist! cian for the State. During this year 19,505,000 pounds have been produced. Texas leads the production with 32.005,000 pounds- * * • One of the least of the worths of amateur gardeners is finding prorage space for the season's product. It might safely be said that there is no crop more worthy of careful attention than the turnip crop. Turnips aie comparatively cheaply frown and will thrive on almost all classes of land, except on very heavy land inclined to become waterlogged. * One of the chief difficulties in tha culture of the mangold orop U the cost of labour. The hand thinning, hoeing, and weeding, together with horse-hoeing between the rows, no doubt runs h way with a lot of money. A cow requires food whether she is milking or not. The amount of food necessary to maintain a dry oow in fair condition, so that she will neither lose nor in weight, represents what is called “her mainten ance requirement.” The maintenance requirement of healthy cows of similar weight does not vary much. In 1924. Denmark exported 123.000 tons of butter, and the 1925 exports have probahi/ been on about the same scale. The largest part of the butter has gone, as usual, to Great Britain—namely. 84,000 tons, or 68 per cent., against 70 per cent, in 1924. and 83 per cent, in 1923. Exports to Gerinary in 1925 amounted to about 34.000 tons, or 28 per cent., against 21 per cent- in 1924. “If women would lengthen their skirts a few inches it would strengthen the trade of our miUmen ” de elares the editor of the “Yorkshire Post.” The decline in the output of dress goods is seriously affectifi* the trade of the manufacturers. Large moat eaters as the North Americans are. the num 4 consumption per head of mutton and lamb is insignificant. For instance, in the United States during 1923 it was only 5.21 b. and in Canada. 8.51 b. Gn the other hand, pork consumption in the United States that year was 91 41b, and in Canada, 81.1-0, and of beef jr veal 70.41 b for United States, and 701 b for Canada.