GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The'. principal ..wheat-growing countries and.:, '"theherons■:■•;they,' harvested -. :in recent. "ryearsS'-ftSre. : as "follow.— .■Eussia,"W'l9l)B-.:-(;5G8,()00,000 bushels, .1909 786 ) 000,000 , 'j.;?iVU ! nitcd',":. States, ;>648,000,000, 713,000,000;'T.rnncfcU317,OpO;000, :361,-000,000;-;.B.ritish : ;india;y26i;000,000, 253,000,000;: JOQj;S6y,OOO,qOO. . 'In addition to-Jhese couri&iesj-Germ'aiiy produced -127 ■;million ■ l bushol_s r . ; iri. 1907, Hungary 130 millions, Argentina' 114 millions, and the": -Uriitea,:■ Kingdom .53 ■'million bushels.'- 'Of these, ";'Argehtina"; is the. only one which has-an annual'surplus for-ex-port. . .:'.,.' •'.■■'•.'■.■■-■'■''■.,'. : ; " ; ;.' ■ :■■

.. Sqme.sof. the -.prbyinoial' agricultural so:cieyesi. in'.South'. Australia liavd asked ; th<i Governmenl. to. .repeals the regulation, under- which nu, .uucertific'ated stallion ■ can'riot' compete" 'at'.::subsidis'etl show's. : . The Hoyal". Agricultural. Siicietj , , in the central State, -however,'- lias,met '■ this by deciding to wait on': the Government and urge that the not,-repealed,-unless,they are preparod to'introduce a Bill "to pro.yidfcfor. the-geueral licensing" of stallions standing' for hire: ; In this'connection it .may.be mehtioned:. tliat. the special com.mittee 'appointed" -in - England to' report national hbrse'siipply recommended that .-legi'sla'tioni should Ibe'enacted' providing/that :nq stallion shall he allowed to .trave , !-for-"service..without a/certificate.of freedom - : from hereditary /disease, ■ such certificate'to be -'produced on demand. ,''On; ; the farm.?bones', are. rarely turned to account for.'manurial : purposes, .for the reason that most people are under the impression that they i cannot be utilised except when reduced to bonedust ;(says an Australian;,paper),'and few. farms/ihave. the facilities for doing that. .The late Jlr.'J. L. : Thompson, when prin.cipal of the Hawkesbury College, had a plan for utilising .waste bones on the farm ..-which- .is ■• worth •',-:' quoting, ' _Hls .method was one' of fermenting ■ and soft'eninj; the by mixing in heaps with (luicklime and loam, as .follows:—A layer Gin. , deep of ■ bones, then a layer 3in. deep; of. linie,: and then a din. layer of ■loam, and. so on, repeating until the heap: is made-of convenient height, .when 'it "is covered up with, ■a thick layer of earth. Holes are-then bored into the ■jieap :from" the top, and r water poured in-to.slack thu liriiu. The mass will.become' hot, and' remain; so for two or three months, after :which the bones will ie. found very friable, .and'the .whole jheap , . may be mixed together, and is ready ■for , applying to ' the ground. \