The Farmer.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2023, 28 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Farmer.

I s( Hi! work it beingdone at theSaipapet i Madras' Experimental Farm in show ms h<>« rhr cattle of India might be improved. The h'c v.eight of the cows kept by the reels usually varies from '2oolb. to lo"th.. ami though the bulls of the largo .Vellore breed weigh ■"■'"'lb. of mure, Mr Benson, who writes the rejxirt of the exnenmental i arm, lioev not re -..nimend tbcfr iwe tor • Tossing with the smaller hrei J. He prefers bulla imtw-.rted from Europe, or, still better. b‘tc.uise of less difficulty as to ihange the rhinu’e. fio.n Australia. The native e ova | artlr from their slowness of ilevelopm.-nt. ami inrtly mi account of poor Boding and exposure to all kinds of weather without shelter, do not usually valve till they are live or six years old, whereas the progeny of native eons crossed with European breeds produce calves when they arc three years eld. Thou as to milk production, the native rows are much below the mark, the Inchest record for a Vellore cow l>eiiig BID callous per annum, whereas even a little Kerrv. purchased at Madras nave fi7o gallons.

Hie hugest harvestin'; machine ever made Las been, used successfully in California during the recent harvest. It is a combined ban ester and thresher, reaping «t binding the e.i.-n accordin'* to choice, and threshing, dressing, and delivering it into sacks as it travels over the field. This machine, which is worked by steam, is the invention of Air. Berry, a fanner of Tulare founty. falifornia, who has been working at us construction during the last six years. It is thirty-eight feet wide, and about the same in length, and it cuts a swathe it twenty two feel. Two engines are used in Working the machine, the larger of which, of horsepower, moves the ban ester along and works the header knife if required, while the smaller one, h-horsepower, drives the threshing machinery. \s the sacks ars filled they are sewn up.nnl dropped in the field. The straw 11 passed t" the iunwee. tie used as fuel, and tile chaff is blown "iitoii I" the go nnd. with any surplus straw n. ti. |inr. d foi fuel Tilers 'a, of course, gre ii e •onomy in 'i.-ni? the straw for fuel m a e -tintry whore it is of no rahif. Ihe o.ily lntrof> used arc those in one team hauling water for the engine, ain't another loilon :ng the ban eater to pick up the sacks of wheat. The men engaged in the v.-uk are the engineer, fireman, at-ervnun. header-tender, sack sewer, water hauler, ar.d sack hauler. With these seven men. it is said, tffty acres van be headed and threshed in a day, at an outlay, apart from weir and tear, of ft cents per acre. TA course, the gigantic machine can In' use ouiy on large level it* his.

ITeuro-pneumonia ha.- 'or L.t-:i out among a number of Calloway tattle imported to Canada, fifty-seven m number, the whole i f which have been killed and burnt at the quarantine station at Quebec. \s these were valuable pedigree cattle the loss was hoary enough ; but unfortunately there was another lot of cattle on hoard the Hibernian, the vessel which carried the Calloways first mentioned, and there were also other imported cattle in the quarantine stations the whole numbering valued at £60,000. As t!io c-unpen-by the Canadian Ouvernkilled as a birds the the to

deemed m-nwaiy to slaughter all the c it tie at the s'a'i-.n.

The tobi'-. • groan on experimental fields by a number of English farmers is new approv.-'.,-.'! ; r,■viim ;■? Mr the interesting i r -c, ~ ,-i <-uriur. The nearest V- t . 1 ■ ;; I "; r. r'i -r K>ant! • v.-ry fine well _t.i, r• 1 .an(.,r M- :..-:rs-famesCarter and C->. of II -h Ifoil* ;i. The honorary secretary ■ ! Ensilage will ;.ioi;ly ;; iy •. pir*v of Somerset 1 1 ■ ms- i\ V ■ Via ■ or MHpeCtiilll of the • : hj ; ! ■ I' u ■ m Ac;;,. ’. :Ir.nd, ?•-- • ■ i he ; t" • r. p ■; ■ir.n.uo p> sutler ■ 111 a pfiC-c* ■; The re-mu.- aic ■;• *t • itriof’iiiary. At Ashfor,i a i.m i. i'r ,n 'hiun.cou has stated ♦ha* hoc .'ii I oi;- g. t a bushel for his plum ~ abie -i liar -mwc very tine large • --I Of ”mu •m-I kind. As tho price would no - ;f"Vtiu; cost of gathering, ';•> intei ■ Ii"l- t them remain on the trc-;.. v, it,; tiexception of the small -.unlit.’v ».e i -uM c-iiisiimo himself. Hi-tiier I'.r.iu r it Mersham, avhohad sold ■i.-i Mjo.i ay i-r more bushels of plums oo ui<- tr.fumd that the purchaser did - -11 ■ ci’h-r to take them or to pay for

t :■ i,l ii-t-tid h-' was giving them to •• iivevcr bk. I me .nul pick them, aud •o Oil 1 g.v-g ! I 111 • hog ; those that fell to •H gi 'iind, Nucral othtrs have stated '.:r irom lei t ■ ' n-l\e bushels of goosebe; i: sb. 1 •a; to ili'uu had been wasted I"- oi •• ta- 11ri•;. « iiliioh tho dealers ..kre-l v. i;-'t sufficient to pay for pick;ll_. \ fru-. T"im r at Wood nos borough, ■' i:i■ iivi■ 1 1. !iai produced an account, for tu-nty i’-u ■ of ixd and Mack currants and i-obcri.. - In- I.ad .>• dd through a Lou- • lon fa tor d'U',ll _ the siimiut. r. The result a tually w i -bring him PI in debt to tiic lactm. \ii-'ther grower stated that 'o- and a 0,-_Ai'■■ -ur, thinking it a pity iheir p'.uia:-. 'vlia'i were vety tine ones udi-cd. bli-uil-1 c in 'll. joined together and had forty-i.-igh - .-"aei gathered, which rh-.y oelit I-' a I. -iido:i -.vliultsale dealer to ■ell l"|- t'r a. Tu ■ dealer hj legraphed that chei, ». n . market for thorn in Loudon, i'U- le- thought lie could get them d;.-posed ~f m Manchester, riie plums accordingly were sent on there, .and they were disposed of certainly, for the factor remitted to the growers the magnificent sum of 41. as the balance remaining, after payment of expenses. This they at once spent in a glass of ale each. Even vcgaubles do not pay much to tho growers, as a market gardener at Worth, near Sandwich, has stated that all lie realized by fifty vegetable marrows he sent to Dover was (id.

Kauri Own as a Medicinal Sub stance.— Many years ago hr. Hammond, of Bournemouth, presented me with a tine ■pecimen of kauri gum, which one of his ■on brought from Auckland, in Now Zealand. la experimenting with the gum thus ■applied, I have found that it may lx- made to perform many useful services in medicine. When the gum is burned—and it burns briskly—it gives out a very pleasant odor which destroy* the odor of putrefying ~r . ganic substances most effectively. Dissolved in spirit, it makes a fluid which burns in a lamp with pod effect. Reduced to a fine powder and shaken with water, it communicate to the water new properties, so that, ■prayed in a iwm, it rendcrs’the air ozonic. It mixes well with ointment, forms a good combination with wap, add combined with iodine, is a natfhl doxiori&r and disinfect* ant. The cum >< Jp*n a pine, We kauri tree, fawmiraMdmu,