What “Sundowner” Hears

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 November 1927, Page 8

What “Sundowner” Hears

If a cucumber does not grow up it is likely to get into a pickle. The admirer of outdoor beauty, who, at this season, enjoys the early summer’s glorious countryside in Hawke’s Bay can spare a spasm of sympathy on recalling that his fellow men in Great Britain are suffering the discomforts of November fogs and other unwelcome conditions that como with the English winter. • • » The introduction of milk grading involves no hardship on those thousands of dairy farmers who regularly take every care of their milk. It simply means that for their trouble they will be paid a premium. The dirtv supplier will be penalised, and thus encouraged t 0 take those steps necessary tor quality improvement. • » • Pip. farmers who exported pigs last year got rather badly hit. Exactly what was lost in the business perhaps we shall never know. It is quite evident that we shall have to concentrate on breeding the right type and feeding in the manner that is calculated to get the young porkers away in the weight required—for the British consumer evidently demands a very light pig, mst as he prefers light sheep or lamb » - • Wife: ‘‘Every time you see a pretty girl you forget you’re married.’’ Husband: “You're wrong, my dear. Nothing brings home the fact with so much force.” Buying purebred stock is like taking out an insurance policy for future profit. “Farmers whose names have been household words in agriculture are giving up their tenancies because they eannot, continue under existing conditions, ’ said Mr E, G, Prettvman, in a lecture before the Economic League in Britain “Notice has been given in every direction,’’ said Mr. Prettyman “partly because the farmers are ‘broke.’ and partly because it is impossible to carry on at a profit The nation does not realise the disastrous position. The Government is playing with the situation, and it will be n sin. a shame, nntf n scandal if it refuses to face its responsibilities, which ate worse than tliose caused by the bad harvest of 1879 ” • » ■ From the herd of 27 cows owned by Mr. H. H. Bussell, of Phkeorn, 11681 b. of milk is being sent daily to the factory, and in addition five calves are being fed on new milk and an ample supply reserved for tbo household • • • Intertillage is a means of preventing unnecessary waste of capillary water of the soil, either through weeds or by evaporation. It is a means of saving and utilising soil moisture. The object is to make the water, which seeks to escape from the surface, pass through the cultivated plants instead of being wasted through evaporation.