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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8098, 9 January 1907, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY. The Indian Government is establishing iigiiculiural experimental stations. 1 here has just been shipped from Mrlbourne for Japan iu one steamer 3000 bales of wool. The whole of Australia's Indian and Eastern wool trade last year did not exceed 11,000 bales. In criticising colonial bu ter=, a London limes writer remaiks that experts classify New Zealand butter as the best that comes from anj foreign part. But while highcoloured, high-flavoured, and full of body, containing only from 8 to 10 per cent, of moisiure and an excellent keeper, it is cot favoured by the housewife on the score of economy, as its hardness makes it difficult to spread with the knife. In repiinting a picture of a Keny cow, which was first in the iuspeciiou class and second in the milking trials at the last London show (she gave 40 lbs of milk of 445 per cent, i f butter-fat), the feydney Daily Telegraph states that the Ktrry breed is finding an increasing number of admirers on the northern ri^rs. In agricultural education New Zealand has a lot of leeway to make up before reaching the proficiency of Denmark. Throughout that country an excellent system of technical schools as applied to industry is in vogue. It is so cheap that farm workers are reached. The schemes for improving stock-breeding are of great benefit. In addition to premiums for horses and cattle, the Government has aat up an elaborate system of milk records. These are managed by the agricultural, societies. Young stock for dairying are bought and sold to a very large extent on the same footing. The show prizes, as a rule, are based on practical dairy results, It has often been remarked that the man who devotes all his atteution to livestock and growing wheat almost invariably has to buy his cabbages. The truth of this is exemplified on many farms throughout New Zealand. Too often, on otherwise well-kept farms, the kitchen garden, which should proride many of the table necessaries, ls well as being an essential factor iu maintaining the health and comfort of all members, of the household, is, in the of work connected with other and what are considered more important interests and crops, neglected uutil the last moment, and hastily ploughed and planted, and then left with rough beds, a silent protest against such treatment. The time spent in properly looking after a kitcbwn garden on the farm, instead of beins considered wasted, and the money in seeds and plants so much capital wasted, should be regarded is what it really is—oue of the best paying investments on the farm. If, by careful cultivation and management, the garden is made to assume the important position it deserves, it will be found to he a valuable factor in making the attractions of country life more prominent than they now are on the majority cf farms. There is an immense amount of pleasure to be derived from cultivating and maintaining a kitchai garden in good order, and securing (regular succession of crops; while at the same time its produce is if most material assistance in prom cting the health of the occupants of iDe farm. It seems an extraordinary th bg that fruit and vegetables shoul 1 be so scarce oa a majority of farms; yet such is the case ; while any number of farmers purchase what they consume in the way of garden produce from a Chinese hawker. Give the girden a chance, and an illustration will be furnished of the advantage of the returns to be obtained from a" portion of the farm which many farmers do not consider worth cultivating in a proper manner, MAIL NOTICES. HAMILTON. Mails close for the undermentioned' places as follows: Frankton Junction.—Daily, 9.15 a .m 12.30 p.m, and 1.30 p. in Auckland and intermediate ofices. Daily, 9.15 a.m, 12.45 p.aa, and 1.30 pm. New Plymouth and Southern OUces.— Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9.15 a.m. Cihaupo, Ngaroto, Te Awamutu, Pirongia. —Daily, 12.30 p.m. Te Aroha, Piieroa, Rotorua, Waihl, Thames, Waifou, Piako, Morriasvillei Tiran, Walton, Matamata, liinuera, Okoroire, Putaruru, Waharoa, Taiukenga, Matnaku, Matangi and Newstead.—Daily, at 1 p.m. Tauwhare and Eureka.—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 11.45 a.m. \ Te Kuiti, Piriaka, Otorohanga, Jangapeehi, F»ro-o-tarao and Taumaimim, Daily, 12.30 p.m. Kirikiriroa.—Daily, 10 a.m and 1.15 p.m. Tamahero and Pukeroro.—Daily, 115 p.m. Aotea.— Tuesday and Saturday, 8 a.n. Cambridge. —Daily, 9.15 a.m, 1 p.m an( j 1.45 p.m, Whatawhata, Te Mata, Waitetuna, Te Uku, Okete and Raglan.—Tuesday, Thusday and Saturday, 8 a.m. G. P. FUW, Postmuttf Have Your Own Home. Don't Pay Rent. Have you £SO cash? Then me a call and I will fix you up *ith a nice home of your own. Plana at my office to choose from. RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS FROM £3O UPWARDS ON VERY EASY TERMS. SPECIALS: O-Rooujed House and Corner Freeioil Section. ONLY £360- Look, .£6O cashlibaiince arranged. 5-Boomed Heuse and nearly half-acre freehold Section, King Street. ONLY £365. and easy terms arraiged, FRANKTON IS THE PLACE TO 3TJY ANl> j NOW IS THE TiMK TO BUI EH App'y Slurp. W. A. GOSLIN j. ood LAND AGENT, FRANKTON J NOTION, ! WAIEATO.