FARM, FIELD, AND DAIRY.
It is almost useless to expect anything extraordinary from a horse which has no ancestry of any merit. If a horse is addicted to picking the yrain out of his ration, clamping the feed may prevent him. Select, the feed with a view to ciuaiiiy. The less bulk the better, so th;jt the strengthening qualities are contained in the food. All horses should have the most thorough grooming to keep riie skin clean, and to remove the scurvy mattti" which gathers upon it. The health of your horse depends as much upon the quality of the food given it as upon the amount of work it is obliged to do. In 1894 Siberia exported 14,000 lbs. of butter. In 1908 the exports had lvached the enormous total of nearly ' 151,000,000 lbs., a considerable portion of which goes to Germany. This, is a competition which some countries will have to reckon with in the future. Finland exports a considerable ! fjuantity of butter of good quality. Norway and Sweden both have a \vell-or7 ganised and successful dairy industry- The dairy world is indebted to tlie latter country for one of the bestknown cream separators. The Swiss exports of condensed milk amount to over 6,000,000 dollars a year. There is no doubt that there is ..lenty of money to be made out ofslock breeding, provided that thei stock is of the very best strains. There are districts in the North of Scotland where the cow labor can be seen. A cow and a horse engaged in harrowing is not an uncommon sight in Aberdeenshire. , Intensive farming means utilising eery inch of space, making it yielri the largest possible returns. This cannot be done when the land is lying half the year. Pedigree is valuable in a way, but it. must be backed up by the performance of ancestry at the milk-pail. This after all is the best test of a cow's ability and worth. A horse is well broken when he has been taught implicit and cheerful obedience to his rider or driver, and dexterity in the performance of his work, A firm of American horse breeders have used horseradish for years. They grind the roots, and feed as we would condition powders, a handful to a feed. ri:ey state that "the horse does not live that would not appreciate the feed. Any of our horses or colts will eat the horseradish out of your hand. It is excellent for poor feeders, worms, and hurses generally run down, also a great stimulant for stallions. Taken from a medical standpoint, it is a stomachic, a nerve sedative, anthelmintic, cardiac stimulant, lepatic stimulant and intestinal stimulant.
Said an old philosopher: "The wellreing of a people is like a tree. Agriculture is its root; manufacture and ,'omraerce aro its branches and its life. V. the root is injured the leaves fall, the branches break away, and the tree dies."
Thousands of sheep all over France are suffering from a terrible and curi.ms epidemic which is killing them oil iii entire flocks. The epidemic is said to be due to the swampy condition of the land caused by the continuous l'oods. Help has been asked for from Parliament. There will be practically no lambs at the end of next month. The Mayor of a little village in the Rolongne, in which there are ten farms has written to the Minister for Agriculture describing the case of his district, which is typical; On the ten farms there are 1,500 ewes. Thest were worth about £2100, and would in normal times have brought 1300 lambs at the end of January, worth about £1 each. There are six ewes left, so that the loss of the Commune is more than £3000.
A German inventor has discovered the way to fell trees by incandescent wires. His invention consists of an t rdinary steel wire one millimetre ir diameter, with a small attachment worked by a motor. The wire saws rapidly and evenly through the tree trunk, being heated to the burning point by the friction. During tlie first trial of the wire cutter a tree 40 inches thick was cut through in less than six minutes. One of the advantages of this machine is that it cuts 2, f iee close to the ground, or in theground through the roots. It produces steam instead of sawdust, and leaves a clean, smooth cut covered by a layer of charred wood so extremely thin as to show through it the recorded age of the tree.
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1911, Page 2
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