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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1690, 24 November 1925, Page 2

In dairy farming it is of great importance to keep records of the yield of each individual cow. Keeping records of the amount of milk yielded hy each cow sas, on the best-managed farms, been a practice in Denmark for nearly a hundred yearn An English correspondent says that during the past twelve months there has been a great demand from all over the world for Southdown sheep. In spite of the unfavourable conditions no fewer than 223 head were sent abroad, including the King’s sheep, most of -which were sent to New Zealand and Canada, while a few Avere purchased for the United States. This breed of sheep was also sold by British breeders to Peru and Kenya Many phenomenal grain crops are being reported to the Canadian provincial Department of Agriculture this year, and the latest, near Hobbema, will in all probability set a neAV mark for oat production in the province. On a 12-acre field the yield averaged 123 bushels to the acre. Another farmer has threshed an average of 11225! bushels of oats to the acre. He obtained 1163 bushels from a field.