FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1924, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

The “ pull-back” cow is the factor in the dairy that kills the net profit and a few of the pull back kind will just about eat up the net profit tne rest bring forth. There are very many -thousands of these pullback cows in our dairy herds. From a business standpoint about the worst thing the farmer can do is to hang on to his pull-back cows this winter. Not only he loses but this milk produced at a loss depresses the milk market and we all suffer because cow-keepers refuse to be business men. It was stated at Lyttelton that out of 1500 sacks of potatoes received by one grader for export at least 500 sacks had been turned down on examination. They would have to be picked over again. The {potatoes it was said, looked perfect upon examination and passed the grading test until lifted for shipment by the ship’s sling, when water was noticed to be oozing out, as if a bottle of water had been placed in one of the bags. All the potatoes were not effected, but those affected upon being re-examined were found to have burst open under pressure from the other bags in the sling. This does not usually occur with properly matured potatoes. A grader stated that the cause appeared to be that the potatoes had been dug too soon. They'Wcre not matured.