SHEEP AND WHEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 20

SHEEP AND WHEAT.

BENEFICENT COMBINATION. Sheep are indispensable 011 (tie wticat farm. In the control of weeds, in improving the fertility of tho land, and in many other ways, their indirect value is often of greater importance I ban t Ik; cash return from (he wool and mutton, says an Australian paper.

Briefly tlic points in favour of combining sheep Willi w licat are as follows: (1| They consume 1 ho. straw left after thn harvest.. (2| I'hoy turn thn woods to profit, and prevent them from seeding at a time when Iho farmer is unable to deal witli ttieni owing to pressure of other work. (3) Their manure improves the fortuity of the land. (4) When the season is so had that ttie crops fail to produce grain, sheep turn them to profitable account. (5) The income of the farm is rendered more certain as thn farmer is riot entirely dependent upon a crop which may tie destroyed by fire or hail. (6) Sheep necessitate the adoption of a ) otalion, which tends to improve the i tilitj of tho land, chock crop diso.isos and increase ttio yield of crops. (7) They can he used to feed off crops that need such a check. (8) They give a supply of cheap mutton for tho farmer's own household. (9) To the above may be added tho pride and pleasure derived by tho farmer from tho possession of a oood flock. °