FRENCH FARMERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2840, 3 August 1916, Page 8

FRENCH FARMERS

'■•:A young Taranaki farmer with the •Expeditionary Force, writing to his parents, says:—"They have some good cattle •in Franco—all red Shorthorns, but some are very dark about the head and neck. They don't go in for very many of them, •and stable them in the winter. The 'French go in inostly for agriculture. Go"ing through France, one sees . -very small holdings, and it is a: , "treat for anyone interested in agriculture "to. Bes the way the land is cultivated. manure very heavily in order "to keep the land so good year after year. 'Every holding has its vineyard and orchard,' and these must be a picture to ' look at in the summer time. All the old 'straw and rubbish are put in a pit, with house, stable, and strawshed built around it/ and the liquid manure .drains out through drains and works into the land. It doesn't look a very good plan from "ia health point of view, but the French 'farmer is as keen on the 'beans' as some of the old Taranaki 'cockatoos.' Another thing I noticed was the truck-loads of paper and rubbish from' the towns 'that went into the country as manure, r so they do not let much go to waste." ' We note Ttftfr interest that all the best prizes for cheese at the Palmerston Show and the best prices in the London market were obtained by those makers who ■use Victqr Vats. These famous vats embody a new principle of middle drainage —worth while investigating. A. J. Parton, Dairyman, Carterton.—Advt