THE FARMERS COLUMN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 April 1909, Page 1

THE FARMERS COLUMN.

• Those who sell milk to creameries, taking the skimmed milk home, always risk taking back the germs of tuberculosis and abortion. Buy a hand separator and keep the i-kimmed milk at holm . 1 Wl.en piyr are farrowed in winter it- ' is neee-.-aiy to have dty. warm <iuart ' ci.-, but after they are a few days' old they sliKiild be "put m an airy pen coniie'.tt.l with a sunny yard. , The .-ize of tl:» chaff for horse" sli-jiiM he about half an inch long; if too Inii! ii is not sufficiently masticated, ' and. li"iii!{ too qui.kly swallowed, may give r ; se to indigestion and i-olic. Milk is lutritious and a. rich egg-prod'.ii-ini; food, and should be used libera! l ;,- wherever it can be cheaply obtained. Waste milk of all kinds on Hie firms should aKvays be fed to the hens. The sow might not be giving much milk at th? time of weaning, but what she is giving will have its effect on the livtle pigs in the way of keeping their bowe's : n condition. When they are taken from her they should be changed gradually and not too abruptly, to pretroubles which ar : se from a change of diet. The cost of the nitrogen used in the world for fertilising purposes is estimated to oe about £25,000,000 annually, and yet over every acre of the world's surface there is as much nitrogen 111 the air as would replace the quantity used, a.-.uming its utilis.at : on by the rotation system of green manuring by means of leguminous crops. Counting the wrinkles on a row's horns is one way to tell how old she is, but if she is a poley it doesn't work. So it is a good plan to keep a birthday book for the stock. Have a name for each. Give the name of the father and the mother, and the date of birth. In a little while you will have a very interesting herd-book of your own