FARMING ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 682, 2 February 1881, Page 2

FARMING ITEMS.

A ton of bran fed to cows returns more than it costin manure.

The flavor of butter consists of fatty matters which do not combine with water, therefore cannot be washed away by it. Owners-, of., self-binding harvesting machines in the;. States.guts.gut a,nd bind wlieat and oats for $i per aptfl, ■ The wine yield of this present: year in California is estimated at gallons. The % T. Times sayß the Government gardener, Mr Holtz, is producing fine samples of oil from the peanut, apd he reckons the yield of nuts, to be JgOQlbg per acre,' . A new agricultural pest has appeared in Cheshire, It is a fly, the maggot from which is half an inch in.' length, and which destroys, tha entire mangold and beet crops.

An unreasonable preference is shown by many for pigs noted for putting on fat with' little feeding j but some have learnt by sorry experience that fat in bacon or pork is rarely relished. The assertion is often made, and many people believe it, that' water washes, out the flavor of the.butter; but it only cleanses the butter jdf the buttermilk, sugar, and milk acid which may adhere to it, just as olarifying sugar removes f rom It' the foreign 'matter, "j-