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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 25

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Regularity in feeding must be the watchword of the successful calfrearer. It makes all the difference in the world to the calves’ health, condition, and gain in weight if fed at regular hours and if given warm milk at night, cold milk in the morning, or sour milk one day and sweet milk the next.

In one of the windows of the High Commissioner’s office are at present displayed three large silver cups, comprising the trophies offered by the British Empire Marketing Board for the window display competition during Empire week in London. These cups range in value from lOOgns down-

wards. They are offered as the first prizes in three different classes of the competition, the classes being determined by the number of employees engaged in the shops, thus giving small shops an equal chance with larger ones. It is a primary condition in the competition that all foodstuffs or produce displayed must be of British Empire origin. Naturally all grocers, butchers and provision dealers in Greater London are interested in this clever publicity on the part of the High Commissioner’s office in securing the showing of these cups in one of the windows of the New Zealand offices.

An | American, Hamilton Rowe, claims to have invented a plough that not only turns the soil, but destroys weeds and insect pests and also automatically fertilises the land. The implement has two blades that are charged with electricity, and which as they pass through the soil create an intense electric field. A first ploughing is sufficient to kill off insects and a second is necessary to get rid of weeds and put nitrogen into the land. The electric charge is generated by tlie tractor that pulls the plough.

Guernsey herds of the island now number about 6,000 head of all ages and of these about 3,000 are cows in milk. Allowing for a certain number to replenish stocks, there is an exportable surplus of about 700 to 800 annually. About one-half of these go to England, where the demand is rapidly increasing, and the remainder go mainly to the United States, although there is a call for a few to all parts of the world. The United States is now exporting many Guernseys to New Zealand, Australia, Japan, the West Indies and the islands of the Pacific.