AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 14

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

For the first week the calf should receive its" mother's milk, and afterward new milk.

Tlio shortest road to good health is tho " milky way."—St. Lawerence Dairy Chats.

A sheep called tho Mulo in Jsorthumbe.viand is obtained by using a BordorLcicester ram on a Scotch Blackfaccd ewe.

After calving tho dairy cow should be fed carefully for some two or three -weeks, and not until after that time is sho put on to a full milk-producing ration.

Letting show animals down after tho show season is over is a process of feeding and handling by which tho show animals arc permitted to lose their show bloom gradually.

London butchers stato that they are unable to get tho right typo of lamb in the early months of the year. Lambs weighing 321b. then, inako high prices.— lixcljutige.

A Radnor-Suffolk ewe in England is reported to have given birth to four lambs, all of which are alive and doing well. This is tho fourth time she has produced a quartette, and tho total number of lambs born to her is 29.

The chairman of tho Federal Farm Board of the United States, says that a tentative outline lias been drawn up of iin endowed institution aiming to aid agriculture through research. This institution is to have a capital of at least £2,000,000.

Mr. Wm. Franklin of llayr Road, Mount. Ttoskill, has a cow which calved last over ton years ago, she has however, been milked continuously ever since and is still giving over Agal. of rich milk daily. This is a very striking easo of persistent lactat ion.

The Argentine Bureau of Rural Economy and Statistics, has published its first estimates of tho area sown with maize in Argentina, this season. The total for the Republic is placed at 13,658,142 acres, representing an increase of 1,811,782 acres, compared with last year's sowing.

The official estimate of tho Indian wheat, crop places the yield afc 46,000,000 quarters, as compared with an actual yield of 39,700,000 quarters in 1929. The crop indicated by the forecast will be llio largest since 1923, when 46,500,000 quarters were harvested, and thore was a considerable export.

What is reported to be the largest farm in the world under cultivation is in Russia, whero 300,000 acres ato under the plough. This farm is oporated by industrialised labour, of which 7500 workers are required, who livo in villages. Of the total acreage, 150,000 acres were in wheat last season. Four hundred and eighty tractors aro used to operate the farm.

Tho president of tho International Agrarian Bureau has urged united action by all agrarians .against United States, Canadian and Argentine wheat production. It is stated that ho will attempt to porsuade tho agrarian leaders, who met at Geneva, to agree to united action by establishing uniform European tariffs against tho United States, Canada and Argentine for fivo years.—Pastoral Rovicw.

A consignment of 24 sheep loaded in a special motor-truck ovolvcd by Sir Edward Mitchell, K.C., was successfully carried from Melbourne to Sydney, last month, says tho Pastoral Review, and on slaughtering was found to bo in good condition. Tho sheep, which were trussed down, in a semi-recumbent position, with canvas contrivances, wore 52 hours on tho journoy, stopping once for feed and water.

Livc-stoclc statistics for tho United States as at January 1, 1930, show that horses numbered 13,440,000, a decrease of 465,000 for tho twelve months. Mules totalled 5,322.000. Cattle numbered 57,067,000, an increase of 1.500,000 for tho year; sheep, 48,913,000, an increase of 1,400,000 for tho year arid an increase of over 4,000,000 compared with January 1, 1928; and swine, 52,600,000, a decrease of 4,280,000 for the year and a decrease of 8,000,000 compared with 1928.