WATERY CRASS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 3

WATERY CRASS.

'Dairymen benefit, but lambs "a '■:,&-. "'-.■•. : '-u 'SUFFER/ ;.' :: :,. ; ...--V' ;: /; ; - .;.' Thorp is no, doubt (writes our travelling correspondent).this.'has been a/grand- season, for the dairyman. I hear of some wonderful results; in, some cases they seem almost When one takes into account thai' .the .cows - are: fed' entirely on grass/it -makes one-wonder, what the , result would have":.been if ;a sucOulent'food ,like, :green maizb or.'cattle cabbage'had been given in addition.,to, the .grass.'. -I. was" told 'of- & farmer.at Linton .who. sends: the milk of AT cows to, tho cheese factory. His cheque'for January was £80: Another, milk ; ihg'4o cows, received over. £70../ Another, settler told : me thathe has a 1 few acres of rape, and that he' puts.his cows.on for an.hour after tho,evening-, milking. 'He .said,it made a'wonderful increase, in the flow of .milk,'and that, while others,were finding their weights going'down his,.wa3. going up.- (Feeding at the time stated, gave no oObjectionable flavour' to the milk. ■(.-.;.;" '/ ,' ..--■ Oii acconrit.of the "cold and wet weather of 'January,, there was a great growth of grass, .but"it was .very/soft;. From: al: dairyman's poirit.of view.it was ail right,; but. the 'sheepmen said their lambs were not.thriving. One leading sheepfarrrier) in. Fitzherbert ■ said .he got his (lambs in intending to pick out the tats, (but to his'surprise there- were none. In fact/ the .lambs-had(gone back/.. It ,was because the grass was too soft; and' watery. This was so in numerous cases: lambs had not done nearly so well during: the inonth of January..- ;;;,."::.;■ •'. .■'■'•'