STOCK AND STATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 21 (Supplement)

STOCK AND STATION

AGRICULTURAL JOTTINGS. Kindness in the stable is one of the real fundamentals to good horse man- i agement. Frequent changes of pasture arc | more necessary for shoe]) than for I dairy cows. Nitrogen has a particular influence in | Ithe development of leaf and stem in ' plants. Nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash | are the three most influential plant I foods. Experience has shown that early I ploughing is almost as essential on 1 light land as it is on heavy land. Phosphoric acid imports general vig- 1 our to plants particularly in the early j stages of growth and assists in the do- j jvelopment of flowers and seed. New Zealand-manufactured dried milk powder is now being distributor! ' liu Japan for the use of Japanese in-j ! fants. If the cream is too warm, it will ■ make soft, white butter. If it is too l icold it will be slow in coming to the i butter stage. The average dairy cow under ordin i ary conditions requires about one ami one-fourth to one and one-half ounces j of salt a day. One or two big records in the pedi-| grec of an individual do not mean as i 'much as a larger number of uniformly good records. ; The bottom of the udder should ap- j Jpear fairly level and have a teat of ‘good size, but not extremely large, near , 'the centre of each quarter. ' Experiments in the making of ensil- . jage from Tall Fescue are being con- j .ducted on the Hauraki Plains by the ( I.agricultural Department officer, Air j ! Denize. I The problems of agricubure, particu- , larly its economic and social problems. , will never be solved by farmers and i •agricultural workers alone. 'The understanding and co-operation of the • people in other lields of human activi-I I ties will bo essential. j It is only when animals have been . deprived of salt for some time that' j they eat enough to injure them. I Britain has increased her yield of 1 |wheat in the last 300 at the rate of about eight bushels an acre in each i din nd red years. ; The training school on Dhola Farm. |Bhavnager, teaches cattle-breeding. injseets, and epidemics, implements, hot j any, soils, agriculture. I Separated milk contains all the bone •forming minerals of whole milk. Thu. lit is in reality a most valuable food, es pecially for young stock. j Modern farming in every branch Io lbe a success, must be up-to-date. Noth- ■ ing is gained by working on chancel systems or in clinging to old practices. I | Underfeeding is expensive. Only I what is fed over the amount required I for maintenance can go into producjtion, unless the animal draws on its l own system. | For sowing summer crops, deeply- ' worked ■well-manured ground is essen- . tial as the deeper the root s can pene- ■ trate, the less Pablo they are to be afifected by dry weather. | The experiment in making of ensil- I lago from tall fescue on Hauraki Plains 1 jis being conducted by Mr J. AV. Wood cock, assistant-instructor in agriculture, fields division, Auckland. j When purchasing the young beet 'sire, a thick, meaty, short-legged, mas leuline, early-maturing bull is the most ;profitable kind. Ol course, weight for ago must be duly considered. Some' •might think it well to cross breed. : Peas make excellent hay whi n cut ' green. They can be grown puiisp or I , mixed with oats, barley, or rye. When grown in conjunction with another crop I phey produce a large amount of fodder j lof very high quality. | Remarking on a bull which was cata- 1 logued, but for special reasons not of- I fered at a recent sale, the owner said: He is for sale privately, ami if not 1 sold the works is his place.” In 1926 enumeration proved that • there were 472,534 pigs in the Dornin- I ion, an increase of .*’.2.419 over the ! preceding year. The large proportion 1 are pigs under a year old. but it is go<i*j to see that the number is substantially | increasing. The wool-grower is on the box-seat i at present, and the finishing wool sales i of the season have left him in a pleas- ' ant. mood. The demand for wool see to make it clear that, the next season will open up well, and that the wool I men will once again come into their | own. A trial shipment of section honey ! was dispatched to England recently; from Hamilton, 'fhc shipment, which | )is believed to be the first of its kind ' sent abroad, consists of cross sections. I and the consignee *s design j s ascer|lain the keeping qualities of this kind , ol honey ami what demand exists for it in England. The honey \ jlhe Auckland cool stores’ and will be I ‘placed in the freezing chambers of the jship. On arrival in England lhe Honey i ( ontrol Board will take charge of the consignment and examine its’"condition before placing it on the market. FARMING ON SMALL AREAS i WINTER FEEDING We are rapidly approaching the time) ju New Zealand, when winter feed ! will be cut aud carted out to stock on | pasture, says a Southern paper. Even ' uow this is done to a considernbl. ex- : I tent, but with the necessity for more y lintensive farming, it is likely to be- h t comc general. In Denmark, this I : method is adopted with a succession of ! Ifodder crops to maintain the winter . , i supply of milk and cream, and there is | j no doubt that in New Zealand, both i ] 'with sheep and dairy cattle, the carry- I ( ling capacity, and hence lhe produr- i , tion of our small farms, could be prac- L | tic-ally doubled if this course were pur- |, .sued. I With catch crops, it is essential to secure rapid growth, therefore a mo e I ' libera! dressing of fertiliser is neces- f sary than at. other times of the. year. ~ Each district has its special requisite in the way of a fertiliser, but, goner- g ally speaking, the North Island is most deficient in phosphates, and hence responds to an application of superphosphate, more readily than to any other artificial manure. While our soils are rather under-supplied s with Available phosphorus, this is a substance which growing and milkyielding animals require an abundance; it is therefore advisable to sup- . ply any crop which is to bo grazed or | fed to sheep and cattle with an ample I dressing. The later in the autumn T that the crop is sown, the greater the !| necessity for a heavy dressing of artificial fertilisers, and as a rule, 2cwt. per acre will not be too much. 1