Farming Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 329, 2 June 1894, Page 4

Farming Items.

The Times lately stated that Lord [ Bridport was feeding his cart horses on his farm in Somerset with a mix- ( ture of linseed oil, crushed oats, and a few mangels, and the results showed that this system of feeding was satisfactory and economical. In the case of cattle it is expedient to introduce* the oil into the mixture in small quantities at first, gradually increasing to a full ration. The Colonial Government of South Africa are importing hackney stallions for breeding purposes. The second, consignment of four animals arrived safely at Capetown by the Hawarden Castle. They are Master Syntax, Syracuse, Cavalier 11., and Copmanthorpe Fireaway, all of whom are bred from good Englisk ntock. By the same steamer Mr. Morgan, of Kimbcrley, took out a hackney mare, Pride ol Town. Mr. J. M. StabL of Adams County. Illinois, advocates the feeding of wheat to live stock. He considers this plan remunerative when the grain is as low as 2s 6d a bushel in Chicago. He has used wheat, extensively for cattle ani pigs, and he has found that the best plan is to boil it, mixed with maize and turnips, and to give the mixture hot to the pnimals, " A German miller has been sontenced to both a fine and imprisonment for selling bran which according to analyses contained 28 : 33, and 48 per cent, of ground vegetable ivory obtained from the scraps from a button factory. What is known as vege* table ivory consists almost ot cellulose and is of little or no feeding value. Being cheap and not easily detected by the unaided eye, it forms rather a popular adulterant. At a recent date a remarkable sale tookplaco at Warwick Hall Farm, Cumberland, the tenant, Mr. Wilson, retiring from business. The attendance was variously estimated at from 3000 to 4000 people. There were 2000 sheep, 239 lots of cattle, 34 horses, and a large number of other lots, no fewer than four auctioneers officiating. The sale realised between LI 0,000 and Ll 1,000. Takon all round, prices were satisfactory. Having been interviewed by a deputation of labourers residing at Ewerby, in the vicinity of his Lancashire estate, Lord Winchelsoa announced his intention of devoting 20 acres near the village for the purpose of allotments. He has undertaken to drain the land, and put it into thorough f condition for cultivation, and the allotments will be let to labourers at _ the same figure per acre as paid by tenant farmers. An American journal is responsible for the following : — Fifty years ago— Man to the plough Wife to the cow, Son to the mow, Girl to the sew, and The rent was netted. Now— Man tally-h,o; Gfoijokno, — ' Son Graek and Latin Wife silk and satin , \ - And the farmer gazetted In order to encourage an improve ment in the breeds of cattle in Ireland, the sum of L 1450 is to be offered in 100 Government premiums for pure bred bulls to b» competed Cor at the spring show of the Boyal Dublin .Society.l he premiums will be divided as follows for the different breeds: — Sixty premiums of Lls each for shorthorns, twenty for Aberdeen- Angus, five for Hereford's, and five for red polled bulls, and ten premiums of LlO each for Kerry bulls. ; , It is announced that the splendid sporting and residential estate of Glenapp, in Ayrshire bad juet been cold by Messrs. Lumley's, of St. James' House, 22, St. Janes-street, London, to a Yorkshire gentleman. Glenapp Castle is a very fine modern mansion, on which large sums of mosey ware spent by the late proprietor. The estate extends to about 8000 acres, and affords fir«t-rate grouse and mixed shooting. The price paid for the property was between £60,000 and £70,000: