NEWS AND NOTES.

Northern Advocate, 19 January 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Success in dairying is attained by wise selection of breeding stock, care, ful mating, testing, good feeding, and regularity in milking and feeding.

The avidity with which pigs will eat green food n summer shows that the old instincts for this class of food have not been eradicated. They have a natural craving for cool, moist food, and thrive on it. Sows which get as much as they desire keep healthier and stronger than those which have more concentrated food,

A shearing tally which must probably constitute a record for Taranaki, or at any rate be pretty hard to beat, was put up on Mr J. A. McDonald's farm at Ararata last week. Tn eight hours twenty minutes Mr Sam Bates shore 341 sheep and Mr P. J, Brough, in the same time, 272. Mostly lambs were handled

The maximum wholesale price of milk to the producer throughout Great Britain for the months October, 1919, to April, 1920, inclusive, has been fixed toy the Food Controller as follows: —October, 2s 2d; November, 2s 8d; December, January and February, 3s 3d; March, 3s; April, 2s 2d per gallon. The maximum, retail pjriees are—October, lid.; November December, January, February, Farch. Is: April, Ud per quart,

It is not so many years since the district round Taihape was first settled, ard it was not Mil about lfci)4 that the railway reached the township and the first train ran through. Be fore the war land could have been bought of first rate quality almost, anywhere at under £20 an awe. At j present, prices avo. uoommg, and land ( which fetched that figure in 19/14 is; now offered at £40 an acre, wHh lit} tie prospects of reduction. The de [ mand still tends to. exceed supply and \ properties are changing hands at rates ; which would have seemed fabulous, in the ''good old days" before the • war.

Imperfect digestion of food produces acidity, flatulence, and sick headache. Sharland's Magnesia corrects the acidity, relieves the flatulence and removes the headache, bold everywhere, 294