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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13202, 13 June 1906, Page 8

A low temperature will give a thicker cream than a higlwr one, all other conditions beintf the same. Pigs feel the cold weather, but. not nearly so much as might be thought, considering the scanty protection nature affords thorn. Fannin? to-day calls for as much education as any trade or profession in tho country. But, it is a particular education. During cold weather all pigs should ha>e cost sleeping quarters within reach, and dry ness of floor and jitter should bo points never upwlect-ed. , , t ' Perhaps on<> of the most notioeable features as regards cows during cold weather is the increased amount of food that the animals will consume. 1 The fertility of the soil is measured not by the amount of plant food it contains, but it.i capacity to yield crops, and in order to stimulate! its ability in this respect tillage in vitally important. One year's Heading makes wren t»»' wmiiug n is a farmer's old majciai'. and on.'-e noxious growths have, taken possession of tKe land 'it is an expensive and difficult nutl'tr to extirpate them. ,