FARM GLEANINGS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 172, 14 November 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

FARM GLEANINGS.

Caterpillars are exceedingly numerous, and are doing an immense amount of damage in Queensland.

Water is the only medium by which fertilising matter can be carried from the soil to the plants.

The wholesale destruction of the prairie fowls in the West has brought a heavy punishment in the grasshopper and army worm visitations. Mississippi Counby, Mo., has OVBP 4000 acres devoted to water-melons, and the yield is about a car-load an acre. The generaf prices run from 60 dollars to 160 dollars a car during the season.

Mr. Ladbrook finds that wheat, oats, and barley thrive well after flax, nor does he consider it more exhausting than any of these crops. Coarse fodder should be mixed with that which is of a finer nature, and the highly nitrogenous fed with substances weak in nitrogen. Mr. Pell, of the English Commission* thinks " there is every possibility that the Hereford bull will become the bull of the western plains vi America."

The Melbourne Milk Supply Company are sinking for water at Ramsay,, with a view of establishing a milk condensing factory. The shipments of wool at the port of Sydney for the season 1880-81 were 226,762 bales, an increase of 35>14l bales over the previous year.