AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3228, 15 June 1928, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Separated milk contains all the boneforming minerals of whole milk. Thus it is in reality a most valuable food, especially for young stock. -*• * * When training the colt or calf to lead it is better to do a littjie coaxing rather than drag it around. Too much force is not always the best method to use. * * * Cows managed on the soiliug system —kept indoors and fed with green fodder —give higher milk ycilds than those pastured in the ordinary way, and where phenomenal yields are sought, this method is adopted. ■ * * * The dairy cow producing 3001b but-ter-fat a year requires as miich phosphoric anhydride as is contained in nearly 2cwt. of superphosphate. In intensive dairying top-dressing is therefore absolutely essential. * * * Lucerne has no regular rest period. Whenever conditions are favourable it comes into active growth. In this respect lucerne differs from most other plants. * * « A purebred Eriesian cow, Tyefc Hisko Fayue, nine years old, has just completed a world's record for milk, production on twice a day milking. She produced ' 25;554.71b milk in 365 days, nn average of 351b. milk for each milking (701b.- daily), for the whole year. For the first three weeks she averaged nearly 501b. for each milking (2,089.9 lb. milk in 21 days). * # * In Barbatu, South America, is a tree which, by piercing the trunk, produces milk with-which the inhabitants feed their children. In N the interior of Africa is a tree which produces butter. It is said to resemble the American oak, and its fruit, from which the butter is prepared, is not unlike the olive. Park, the great traveller, declared that the butter surpassed any made in England from cow's milk. Sierra Leone has a tree which produces cream fruit, which is agreeable to the taste. /* * * There is probably no farm crop that demands such perfect tillage as the potato. The object to be aimed at in the preparation of the land is to produce a favourable mechanical condition of* the soil, to destroy weeds and to provide a seed bed in which the plants can elaborate their root system and develop tubers without restraint or hindrance. In the first place, the,land should have been ploughed to a good; depth in the late autumn and cross-ploughed to the original depth in the early spring, after which it should be free and friable. It Earns its Keep. —A t sewing machine is no extravagance. Anyhow, it costs nothing. £11 10s for a lifetime, how much is that a week? Get a New Home from Minson 's. , 2