BY THE WAYSIDE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 78, 14 March 1933, Page 9

BY THE WAYSIDE

OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. JOTTINGS FROM HERE AND THERE. In a new publication, “Animal Industry in tho British Empire,'’ the author states that although the Dominions are quite capable of supplying sufficient mutton and lamb, cheese and butter, we have no hope of competing against the Argentine for the supply of beef. Time, and the chilled beef experiments being carried out in Australia and New Zealand, will eventually show whether this view is or is not correct. Although the rubber tyre is quite a common object in use on baker’s carts, the writer has yet to see farm carts shod in this fashion. At a demonstration given in England to show the superiority of the rubber tyre on farm drays, a horse failed to draw a load of 24cwt. through mud, with a dray fitted with ordinary wheels; but the same horse, with the same load and a rubber-tyred dray had no difficulty at ail. Some years ago, a 1000 gallon cow was regarded as an exceptionally heavy milker. When the 2000 gallon was prophesied the forecast was hailed with derisive daughter. The country hall was packed, while the dairy instructor was lecturing on “Cows that pay.” Having concluded, he announced, by way of an encore that he would give <i short talk on “Cows that won’t pay.” At which the local grocer started clapping vigorously, shouting: “Give it to them; the hall’s full of them.” The United States boasts of a lemon tree which produced pink lemons growing in California. As to the reason for this, scientists are baffled. Some of the limbs of the tree are a bright green, others are white. Generally, the tree is thought to be the freak offspring of a freak parent, and not capable of being used as a parent tree.