AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Cow testing means more profit per cow.

To buy cheaply is not with certainty to buy right.

Cream rises more rapidly in milk containing large fat globules.

It is the satisfied, comfortable animal that pays us most for the care we

In 1840, the average weight per fleece of sheep shorn in the United States was approximately 21b. By 1890, it had increased to nearly 5Ub., while last year it was 7.61 b.

The dipping of sheep destroys external parasites and tends to improve the wool. No sheep can thrive as it should, when continually annoyed by ticks-

When a good type of dairy cow calves and begins to milk, she has such a strong impulse to milk that she will withdraw fat from her body and put into her milk.

Fish meal should never form more than one-tenth part in weight of the total ration. All rations of which it forms an ingredient should be carefully mixed, and self-fed pigs should not have access to fish meal unmixed.

The two-year-old heifer will produce about 70 per cent., the three-year-old about 80 per cent., and the four-year-old about 90 per cent, of the milk and butter-fat she will produce under the same treatment as a mature cow.

For walls in dairy buildings a wash can be made up as follows:—Mix some air-slaked lime with freshlyskimmed milk to a suitable consistency so that it can be applied to the walls with a brush. To every gallon of this mixture add one ounce of ordinary table salt. Use this mixture when it is fresh.

It i s stated, on the authority of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, that formalin converts the virus of foot-and-mouth disease into a safe and effective vaccine. Inoculation gives immunity for at least a year, but so far it has proved impossible to cultivate the virus artificially, and thus obtain supplies, sufficient to carry out general vaccination.

Tests and observations carried out by officers attached to the United States Department of Agriculture indicate that liberal feeding of ewes just before and during the breeding season results in a larger percentage of twin births. Though the percentage of increase has varied in controlled flocks from year to year, the average over a definite period has been 15 more lambs per 100 ewes from flushed ewes than from ewes that did not receive extra feed.