FARM NOTES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 647, 5 July 1921, Page 6

FARM NOTES.

JOTTINGS. Lime wash the cow bails. Crushed oats now form a cheap food'’for mixing in the dairy cow’s ration. "' ,l - u v "- | Official live stock estimates for i Argentina gives the following totals for 1920 Sheep, 45,309,419 ; cattle, 27,392*128; 1 pigs, goats, 4,670,130. Compared with the official figures for 1914, sheep show an increase of about 2,000,000 head and cattle of over 1,500,000 head. It is reported that an important American wheat belt is threatened with a serious attack of the dread hessian fly. It is another example, says an English paper, of the evil effects of Prussian militarism, as years ago the fly was imported into America by a party of Hessian soldiers.

“For the current cereal year the world’s supply of wheat is more than equal to the demand, and there will be v a surplus of exportable wheat left in the exporting countries,” is the opinion of Sir James Wilson, who is a great authority in England.

German farmers are reported to be paying a rent of one mark .1 year for the dairy cow presented them by Americans some little time ago. This is being done so that the stock shall formally remain Ameiican property, and not be subject to seizin- tinder any reparation proposals.

The Bradford Wool Record mentins that at lecent London sales certain German buyers, in ‘addition to handling, were observed to use the sense of hearing when examining wool. If one holds a handful of wool close to the ear. and draws out a sample, the noise so caused in a dry fleece is really surprising. In very greasy wools there is scarcely any sound at ail. It only remains fur some enterprising buyers to taste the wool!

1 SJUKKf 6 Of . < jtniJFl Odfpy hgcf Hie Canadian Government tackles the”'#6*lollß Weed problem ina'thor ©ugh manner. : Wheif the last mail left what is known &g the inter-pro-vinCiai Weed trhih' r Was being Organised f6r -a sixweeks’i tour Of the three prairie provinces.: This was td carry a staff of experts, who, by l means of lectures demonstrations would make plain -to farmers the menace of vegetable pests, and advise on the best method of combating same . /