FARMING NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14706, 5 June 1920, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

rtK IMPORTANCE OF LIME. , .iecetisitv of liming land h has been" so frequently V *f c ®. ct its importance is so ' tioDWj - . tno |ogyis needed for &L intrtKl ton ruore attento the matter; but i W °'if i= cheap its ***"* frequently anderest.mated jfib. 1 -; t heVeate r part, of the land.- » tar 7ealand is deficient m l.me. >e«r ur prising when it is relS n ,° th ., t this substance is not a .on-tu« c!,t of so r bUc f® 30 ® tlv -?nks. and is carried awav. SI '» a veriige it i* computed that t* 4 " ot arable land annually -TXof l.m.'. and in certain cases more than this amount <?" U> X controlling factor m the Bntf te , the «oil. and no amount of tt®?, 01 ~,n produce a good. crop Patient; in fact, artificials M-itivelv injurious if _lime is i? ot ammonia, when ' 'J. lia= frequently injured pM, t0 m i s turo because lime has r ■ , The remtdv is not to 31 cf sulphate of ammoUt tif , . c app! v the necessary lime i. bo',' cryhosphnte. being an acid rjin- some of the nine in the pn#' .r;V~ : wz it* own ac.c.ity I i®, n j| it." other properties, lime Bus"** 3 .. Inch i* indispensable <-<> i oj;' nnrt pi' : m ts soon die if grown * 6 »tiirr ;"" 1 if e ro . w " n ' ht :i c Vr re tiottt un ; . ; quantity ot it. the> IB in - uth .;Vll for a time, but after,t tin l7 "' ',\ um tr-<l and weaklv. One tor this is that there is tie T° r ,„iint peiditv in the sap. too strong ss .t i ;! . U,.-.. no lime to neutralise II : rhrcked. I/ime. as ca!corrects acidity. . in lime are not fertile, nnt" heard the remark that 58 l~ Mirh a field will grow no£ll r rnanv cast's limo or lime A t! • tli' drainage would entirelv ® 6 I i field There is what is J* 5 critical stage when comK"» tt f ,I! changes in the amount th- natural i!ora. the the micro-organisms tv of Plants to disease, and * t»:xt.uro of the soil. It is 'Ktetwr to apply enough lime xo H? s h * ir< . iV of safety, but big quanta* 4 a 't" Frequent dressings "banoccasional heavy appliP bevi.c- v hnflS.

SKIMMINGS. « rnitt.l states Department of knock to the I mummies. It says * i proves ai! such f - b,- fictitious- French tests " -n I 5 i't rminate. German tests i-'Sth-n when seeds are kept under ""heat, barley, and oats State up to eight or ten years fj&Tif ;in >- ° nuus arc at,ve Sethis vear representatives of £f' J the fannin- community are SL corporation between the re-r>iircit-i for their mutual beneof the Auckland inch of the Farmers' Union Mr -las. S s stated that cooperation l>c- . thr twe parties wouid be the salS o f the farming community and Zni the representatives of Labor Sr to their utmost in reaching ,tV- JIrT - Hloodworth spoke :n 'ft. and said that the interests of [writers and ot the farmers were prices ruling for land were (.subject of comment hv the Hon. C . Pirr (Minister of Education) at Jeti recently. In that distnet he fotflflJ. they were i»ymg f r °m £oO .£2OO per acre, and he hoped the intrywas not going to suffer through , tk» high prices. It was a fact at%w Zealand had the dearest land the world. It was true that the chute ms magnificent, but he hardly nuglrt&it quite accounted for all of ge was net concerned witli the op\t ilo occupied this high-pneed iil—tiat was their own look-out —but line concerned vvitll OIU " ;,£ P wt - and it n» what chauce had a man ot hue Ms sou on land at such htg.i tsind enabling him to make good f at iras wanted was to get the lads to tie land, and not drive them into icitr, and he hoped the high prices if not have a tendency to prevent Bjetting on the land. I correspondent wriYes as follows to fool Record of January :—Memof the wool trade who were in b. at the December series of auciwere much impressed with the Ed window show at the New ZeaGovernraent office in the Strand." Sim a model of a shearing shed,, [by New Zealand soldiers, which in wn. way is just as interesting to fforf mill men as the mills are to spatters, who come over here, fe. blankets, scarves, and other jfe of goods turned out by the t Zealand mills, such as Petone. ipoi.lloegiel. and Roslyn. were also raw, and altogether the exhibit, i tte woolmairs standpoint,, was ifaMy in advance of anything one seen in this line recently in the ion offices of Colonial Governifc" _ sferring to the Government's deciajtmst extending contracts for rarciase of New Zealand meat be•fmte, Mr Massey estimates that o,oft) carcases require lifting durfc year, whereas there is only shipispacc available for 8.000.00 U. iir leyarges the Hoard of Agriculture the initiative in making new laments. sfei hold? the record for being the Ecieese export port for the Dominthe value of the cheese exported & II months i ndi-.l 3!>th Xovem1k being U.WLSot). New Plywas next with cheese valued at ■W.OS). ivlnl-r Auckland was third I £1.220,5 i)? worth of cheese. Jlanawatu tV.rmer who has been atipithtg thr rabbit nuisance in ftrtoa district found that one was ipith the problem of feeding eight to one sheep. A Masterton tar's rabbiter earned £SOO at 3d per I fast year. The last five bags ot i&cost th<; land-owner £2l. but as •toff they realised L 164. Hjwk is becoming a great woolWffle country. This year the clipCof the sheep in the province of jrt# alone will yield 15.000.0001b of t more than twice as much as ten *3s*. 'Snot i-ince Mr Joseph HeaclWtriffiil.W'O in live minutes by oo the New York Cotton Exlp: and More* lie sat down to hiO lie was i'SfIO.(X:O richer than lie cracked his morning eggOtegon. U.S.A.. hay is loaded P»ck«l into freight cars by means II air bta.-t. The hay is drawn up ifak beside the car by a crane, ■vpowerfu! ;iir-blower hurls it jnto pressing it down and pacKtug

Prospects iif men who have paid fi prices for land for dairying pnrnet bright according to no authority than Mr -T. G. Hark- • •Speaking at a conference of k Auckland dairy companies on he rt'tVnvd "to the fact that Juii in Tar.iiv.iki was realising j-"5 to £2OO an acre. All he [jW was. "God help the man who np land at £2<M) an acre." jPsided that a man with little f. Mould l- able to take up :l Ppf land at sttch a price, that the land his own. free of in l.j or 16 years. This nrald net be done on land at Pnces. jifterta (r.S.A.> farmer has l 1 Potato that turned the scale A newspaper scribe says thatj donater tttber was exhibited in T* '"croxtL- stared at it- as a? visitant from Mar?. Many re its resemblance to spud and yet doubting t-®? asked what it was. AVhCn i potato thev would hardly j.,7 <ome trick." This _ ?otato was of the Mountain and twenty-five specifrom the growers' field at we