AGRICULTURAL.

Waikato Times, Issue 12184, 20 September 1911, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL.

NOTES FOR FARMERS

In a locality where furze is a some advantage can be gained by collecting the young growth, bruising t, and using it instead of hay, or, f preferred, mixing furze and hay m _\iual parts. Horses thrive on it aad .•utting the young plants arrests rowth and keeps them -within bounds.

Argentine is making g/ bold bid for numeration. Over 71,000 immigrants arrived there up to April 15 rom the beginning of the year, and .t is aD:icl; a..;! that by the end vf the year the total number of arrivals will have reachsd 400,000.

A New South Wales farmer has been experimenting successfully rrowing lucerne for seed, and has 'ound it a profitable side-line. He ook over one thousand pounds per icre off his farm, while another had i return of nearly £SOO for 4-1 hags.

A fly-catching competition was startid at Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 22, and come to a finish at the »nd of July. There were 232 competiiors, and the prize (£2O) was secure 1 >y a boy named Bousquet, who captured 1,219,000 flies in traps of his :iwn invention.

An English authority essays to ;ive the total value of the world's .vool production, which, it states, is £1,281,333,333. It estimates the uimber of sheep at 504,000,000, u ud ;akes the average weight of wodl shorn per sheep at 71b. It is, however, very much open to question vhether 71b is not an excessive figure to apply to sheep of all countries, and this fact largely discounts the value of the estimate given.

It is authoritatively stated that the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company has been more successful for the nrst year of its operations than any similar institution in the Wellington Province. It is said that one company in the province made a loss of £SOOO on last year's operations. The shareholders of the Masterton Company should therefore feel more than satisfied with their position.

A farmer, many years ago (rays the Scientific American), discovered that wood can be made to last logger than iron in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on timber. The posts can he prepared for less than Id each. This is the recipe : Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverised coal till the mixture has the consistency of paint. Then apply• This sounds simple, and may he worth a trial. It is presumed the reason is that it is practically a deposit of indestructible carbon on the wood, the same effect that is got hy charring.