FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 14 December 1920, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

Sonic of the liiiy crops in the Wairarapa arc being sold on forward delivery.

11 is reported thai applications for implement spaces at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show (Fnghtnd) constituted a record -for over 20 vonrs.

Do not he in a hurry to wean the pigs. .Mori' voting pigs are spoilt at weaning than at any oilier time. Let them stickle the son' as long as they want to. giving litem, access to milk i:t a trough apart from the sow. Gradually introduce grain feeds into this milk, until the young piglings arc eating all they want:, and so practicallv weiin themselves.

What must he pretty well a record in small grain production for one property was created recently l>y tin; Xohlel'ord Foundation, Limited, a corporation which operates over MO.1)00 acres in farm land in Alherla. Canada. From 1070 acres it raised 120 htisltels of oats per acre in 101"). and .">I.2H husliels in .Marquis wheat per acre on 1(')()(J acres in .HUG.

Colostrum, or the first milk, is :i thick, yellow viscid lluid, somewhat hitter in taste. It is especially secreted for the young, for which it has special laxative properties. This milk .should not he used for human consumption. Vo{} to children it is apt to cause digestive disturbances. After four or live days from lite time of calving, the milk becomes normal.

As ;i means of obtaining ;i nia.xinniin yield of milk from each cow tlio milking must receive nil due attention. In tlio first place, the cows must be gently trealeil, milked ai a lair .speed, and properly stripped. Slow milking causes the milk yield io diminish (piickly. Milking carelessly and jerking Ihe cow's ieats often results in the cow becoming had tempered and kicking the pail over.

A \ew York cable message stales that tin 1 annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture slates that in face of enormous difllcul.fios the American farnior has produced Iho largest harvest, with a single" exception, In ilio country's history. I'lie crop's value af current prices is H'.tJfiihiHii). Tlio yield of the leu principal crops is 1M per cent, aliove (lie average for the five. veais liel'oi'p the war.

I A recent report issued by the College of Agriculture, California (l r .S . A.), regarding the results of experiments made with the view of affording guidance (o the dairy farmers of the province as to the value of tlio milking machine says "tlio modern milking machine is a practical and sal'e labour-saving device. This has been proved by the results of carefully coiiducled experiments, and is also borne out by the oxporioiirc of practical dairy farmers in all parts of the country (luring the past duzop voars.

Mr A. f). Shamel, who is so much to improve citrus culture in California by hud .selection, is strongly opposed to the multiplication of varieties. Addressing g. meeting of mirsorymeii recently, he said:-—"One of the main reasons for the commercial success in the marketing of the California citrus crop is that only ;i few standard varieties are grown. The Washington Xaval orange is the winter and the Valencia the summer orange. The .Marsh is the only successful grapefruit, variety. The Eureka and the Lisbon lemon varieties, complete the list."

There is mystery, profound and unfathomable, in the soil and its processes. This is the anchor that will hold men .in their devotion and service to it. :is the mystery and grandeur of creation hold men in devotion iind service to the (Ireat Author. Men find in modern agriculture a challenge to great learning ability. and skill of high order. The soil is the Mecca of their desire, a desire that is soul feil.

Debate on the proper age for first calving is always a fruitful source of discussion among dairymen. One group points to the necessity of proper physical development before the cow begins on the very arduous task of yielding milk through It) months or more of the year. The other side holds that late calving gives the beef qualities in the cow time lo develop, and encourages a tendency towards coarseness in the dairy animal. Tn terms of ordinary dairying, the question turns on which system, in the long run, makes the most money Does the production of the niafure cow make up for the extra feed put into her during year or two of production in early life of the early calver balance the possible loss in vitality and in long-time average production. An experiment that lias been eonducted at an American experiment station throws an interesting- light on this question. Ten cows worn included ill the experiment, i'ive calved at the average rate of two years and one and four-tenth months. The other live averaged three years and one month at calving time. In the first lactation period, the late culvers produced at nearly double the rate of the early calvers. During the second lactation period the late calvers made a record (id per cent greater than the early calvers. in the third period the early calvers made about the same record as the late calvers.

The .sweet potato weevil has Open I proclaimed ti disease under the second schedule of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act.

According lo a recent cable, Germany's heel harvest in .licjo will amount lo I w enly-lhree .million centners. There will he no necessity for any imports, ami hereafter Germany will he a. sugar-ex port in;.; country.

A Sydney cable says: -••The Legislature read the lirst lime a Gill (o enlarge the opera I inns of the Gnverunienl Savings Hank hy Ihe addition of a rural <lepa i'l jiient to assist prima rv producers and associated i inltisi ries. its loans will range from .Sloti lo iii'Odii, ami the iolal amount available is jiot le exceed y 100.

A large Wellington exporting house reports thai litis season's make of Mew Zealand cheese up (o Litis per cw,.. c.i.l'.e., had hcea paid; hut wilhin the lasl \\'\v days stiles amounting lo loon ions have been .made at LM>s per. cw(., equal lo I2ls per cwl. 1'.0.h. Xew Zealand, or slighlly iimler Is Id per pound. 11 is furl her reported lhal il is now ditliciilt lo sell at Is Id. "In ihese circuinslaiices ; Hie house above referred, to is si rough- advising cheese factories with butter-making equipment io turn over lo cheese.

The Dnnnevirke Farmers' I'nion deli.'itcil tin' question ill' ;i farmers' political ji.'irly on Friday ;is Ihe outcome of n jnooo.-iil front Auckland. A Idler was road from (ho liiiior soiling out what had been done liy farmers' political parlies in Canada aml Australia. Sunn 1 of those presoni wore ngaiusl mm'li a I : hut. as i 11<? question required very careful con MoVralion. i In: ma 1.1 or-v, as deferred till Iho quarterly no-oiin- before the Dominion ('onfoii'iiio. .('opies of ihr Am-klaml lot tor will ho supplied |o all moiiiliors of the oxoonf ivo. ami an effort will be in.-i.lc to gei a hi- attoml-

Dolails of tlio wool realisation si'lirinc linve not been disclosed (remarks a London cable). The York.shiro Observer says the scheme would ho regarded seriously in Bradford if it wore considered probable that the British (.ovevniuenl was likely in assent to a project which amounts to tin l suggestion 111.'tf tlio h'ealis;it ion Association should he aided lo establish a monopoly in Australian wool. I'j is regarded as incredible that the Cabinet would he so shorf-sighf ed as to connive at a. plan which aim.-* at making woo! iii'l ilicially deal' ai the very lime when it is becoming cheap .and teaching a true economic level of value, capable of restoring Hie confidence which is essential as a prelude to improved trade. The whole of the trouble in the wool trade is (raceable to (he monopoly in A list rn Ha n wool which arose through (he 'British (iovornineu! 's ownership. Air. .Hughes' idea, the paper says, appears in he io hold tip wool unfit {i. price <-; in |i r obtained; hut wool will continue tn grow, and the eventual result of Air. Hughes' policy will he a bigger accumulation than ever and a more dilHcuit problem than before. The 'Vmt shire I'o.sf says: "Strong remarks arc made in. Bradford. This astounding proposal to victimise our wool users and industries for the benefit of .Australian w nol- t growel's is in very had lasfe after (lie manner in which the Australian growers -were rescued from what looked lihe certain ruin by (he Imperial Covei anient purchasing iheir dip during the war, when growers ■ could neither have shipped nor sold -the grealer part of their woo] by any pother menus."