GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 2

GENERAL FARM NEWS.

A young man was recently cycling along a country road when he saw a board lixed up in the.yard of a farm-house, with a notice painted on it, "This farm for sail." Always ready for a little fun, and seeing a woman chopping sticks in front of the house, ho stopped, and asked her very politely when

the farm was to sail. Sho replied to hia question without a moment's hesitation, Just as soon as the man comes along who can raise the wind." • It. is wonderful what strides science is Slaking," said the man-in the corner. " L see that a farmer has just made a discovery of vast importance to farmers. By planting potatoes and onions in the same field in alternate rows he finds that the onions, being so strong, bring such volumes of tears to the eyes of the potatoes that the roots ara kept moist, despite the drought, and consequo ™.y big crops can bo raised.'! . Ihero are two things the New Zealand dairy farmer and the Government do not find easy to take" (said Mr. Kinsella, our late dairy commissioner, recently, in West Australia). ' One is medicine, ami the other is advice. lor six long years I kept this question before the people of that Dominion by lectures, bulletins, and by practical demonstrations with the Babcock tost v aiicl 'it is only recently that the Government and the dairymen themselves hare waked up to the tact that they have been for vears milking about ono-third of the cows in'the Dominion at a loss. Men carrying on dairying on land valued at £25 to £40. an acre cannot afford to milk cows for thirty-three 'weeks in' 'a season for 3s. 2d. per week;. and it is' no wonder that such farmers are amazed when they find the cow alongside of the' 3s. 2d; one producing 10s. 7d. per week."