Farm Notes.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 27 May 1905, Page 8

Farm Notes.

While farmers are complaining- i-hat the wheat crops are disappointing- in this district, owing- to the fact that the grain has never been properly filled out, oat crops are threshing- out remarkably well, exooodi.no- all expectations.

Them ran lie little doubt <hat ttic rich alluvial lla^s of North Taranaki comprise gome of the best land in i\\o province. A farmer near UrOdiii 'has already disposed of ten fat cows which had been <n'azin£r on a ten-acre paddock during- the last eicv-ht month 1.,1 '„ and hopes to c: o^ another ihreo oft fat before the twelve months are up. This is almost equivalent to a .'ow and a half to the acre.

TToro is an instanm of up-to-dato nip j thrvds in tho nursory carried out by Iho al)1n Californian, l\Tr Burhank. iL was inihotdays wlion ho was siru-Q-'qlinc 1 1«> mako Ijoth onds mroi in rarryi' 1^" on a nnvsory. TTo was sadly in n^'ftd of fumls. A l'ussh oifl«r camo f<ir twonty thousand pruno treos. Tt wonW take two years and a half 1o orow fliom in the ordinary course of affairs, but ho could oet the order by turning 1 them out in nine Mionths. TFr> r-allecl in a small (army of men and nut them to work planting over a hundred thousand almond seeds. The almond otowr rapidly. In a lew months the young- bushes wore .-early; the best were selected, and twenty thousand prune euttinq-c! were graftal upon theni. Tn nine months the order Was filled. To-tl&v one of -.hr- lnr-or-o^t pruno-orchni-ds in thr wovhl i« o-rowinp- and yioWinc from Ihe^e so*f«aine alinoii'd trees. i