THE MAN ON THE LAND.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 697, 6 January 1922, Page 5

THE MAN ON THE LAND.

I vf LANDS FOR DAIRYING. VALUES AT WHAKATANE. Mr Harold Beauchamp, in the course of his speech at the Bank of New Zealand meeting in Wellington recently referring to land values at Whakatane and in England (Herts), instancing a farm at £29 per acre. The Whakatane Press publishes figures showing that at 14d per lb. for butter-fat, land at £6O per acre would pay handsomely. Admitting the long summer and milking season, a mild winter and fine climate, it is shown that a 100 acre farm carrying over a beast to the acre on pastures not broken up for from 20 to 24 years are giving butter-fat returns of over 200 pounds per acre per annum, w?thout special selection of herds. Some parts of the drained Rangitikei swamp promise to exceed that. The Press claims that taking Mr Beauchamp’s dictum that land is worth whalt it can produce in normal times, land value at £65 are not by any means fictitious for good dairying land at Whakatane. DON|TS FOR PIG-RAISING-

Professor J. G. Fuller, Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., emphasises these “don’its”

uon't use a scrub boar. Don't select brood sows from

•twin" litters. Don’t feed the brood sow with too much i corn.

Don’t forget to providq dry, warm, well-ventilated hog houses.

The colony house is cheap and efficient in case none other is available.

Don’t over-feed at farrow time.

, Don’t fatten pigs; keep them growing.

Don’t fail to provide green foliage for pigs. Alfalfa, rape, clover or rye make first-class paiturage for swine. Don’t let pigs drink from mudholes and stagnant pools. Provide pure, clean drinking water for them at all times. GUEST COWS. There is no man on land who entertains on such a big scale as the milk producer. He has more guests on his property (than any other breeder of live stock. He generally keeps a few good cows which return him a handsome profit, but he is so fond of keeping guest cows that he does not benefit as he should from the returns from his profit maker, while he loses a loir of money and wastes a lot of time in waiting on and attending to these guests in addition, of course, to providing them with free board and lodging. If the farmer wants to give up the entertaining business and regard dairying as business proposition, he should join a cow-testing association. This is the only way to get rid of his guests, and have better food and care, for the cows that are keeping him. The business man would soon be bankrupt if he kept in stock goods that he lost money on every time he hanadled them. The man with a business training, 's who takes up dairying because ithe land calls to him, does not entertain guest cows and use scrub bulls, because he has £ s. dv point of view always before him. It is time the New Zealand dairy farmer 1 in general regarded his undertaking from the business point of view.