POPULARITY OF MANGOLDS.

Matamata Record, Volume VII, Issue 587, 4 December 1924, Page 6

POPULARITY OF MANGOLDS.

With each succeeding season mangold cropping is being more widely adopted by the Upper Waikato dairy farmers as a good means of providing root fodder for the cows in the winter, particularly as on the older country swede growing is becoming an increasingly risky proposition. One ( of the first of the local dairymen to specially purchase a ridger for sowing his mangold crop is Mr. A. T. Morris, of Overdale, Putaruru. Following smaller successful crops of mangolds in previous seasons, he has this season put in a five acre crop, mostly of the Jersey Queen variety, and he reports an excellent strike. Last winter the yield he obtained from two acres of Jersey Queen mangolds served as root fodder for 136 head of cattle for six weeks. Lucerne and grass hay were fed as the complementary ration with the mangolds, and, if this season's crop is equally successful, Mr. Morris intends dropping swede culture in favour of mangold growing altogether. Besides his own crop, he has also used the ridger for putting in crops for two neighbours this season, while also throughout the district the drill is being used to sow many further mangold crops. \ Mr. Morris also reports that he has cut his 12-acre stand of lucerne for the first time this season, and is making the yield into ensilage.

Lightning has been responsible' for some queer freaks; but, as far as I know, there ha.s not been anything on similar lines to equal what happened at an Australian carnival recently, when a tent in which a wireless concert was in progress was struck (says a "Star" writer). The canvas was split, hut the most curious effect was that the dark brown stockings and gfeen blouse worn by one of the women in the tent were bleached white. Such a happening suggests that scientists migiilt, profitably investigate the possibility of adapting electricity for bleaching purposes.

There is still a great market for human hair, and even the almost general bobbing of women's hair has failed t,o satisfy the demand. In prewar days the great market for hair was Limoges, France, and the Hair Fair was an amazing sight. Girls with beautiful tresses would line up while dealers —who had come from all over the world—would pass down the ranks and make offers for any head of hair which attracted them. Prices ranged up to as much as £8 a pound.