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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21998, 6 July 1933, Page 2

Good Husbandry After describing in detail one of the show farms of England, where organisation has been brought to the highest pitch, a writer in a British journa says: Organisation on the lines of a departmental store or factory, with the strictest regal'd to accounts, is not the criterion of success in farming.* As experience has proved in several instances, it is possible to place too much reliance on figures compiled in an office, to the neglect of the land and the general, wellbeing of the farm. Nature will not be ruled bv charts and statistics, though they provide a check to the financial results which is valuable, if not essential, in farming on a large scale. Both land and stock need the personal touch and the understanding which can beat be summed up as good husbandry. To-day, as in the past, it is the combination of the good husbandman and the good business man that makes for success in farming, and if /emphasis is to be la : d on one quality, let it be good husbandry. Header Harvesters The opinion that the use of the combine harvester in England has now definitely passed the experimental stage comes from the Institute for Research in Agricultural Engineering (says The Times). Mr J. E. Newman gives a valu.able account in a booklet of the experience pained during the 1032 harvest, when 4400 acres were harvested by these machines. Most of the farms referred to in this report are general farms, and the tendency seems to be towards more intensive "rain crowing rather than towards the specialised prairie type of farm of which there are two or throe examples in England. It is evident that further, improvements and adaptations of the combine for English conditions arc still required. The chief need is, perhaps, simplification. Since almost nil grain hasvested in England requires to he dried

CURES S UNTHRIFTY ‘'Stonehaven/’ Hinds, 7th Sept., 1932. C. W. Keclcy writca;—“l have a very valuable calf here, three weeks old, which started scouring, and which I was unable to stop, I had given up hopes of saving it, when I remembered my success with the Drench when treating Hoggets. As a last hope, I decided to try it out on the calf, and gave it a double dose out of the bottom of a 2 gallon tin. I fully expected to find the calf dead in tha morning, but to my amazement, the calf had its head over the rail, waiting for it* breakfast, and It has never looked back since/* If unobtainable from your Stock and Station Asrent or Store, write: Wholesale Distributors: LOUDON BROS., F.O. Box 2, ASHBURTON.