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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 12

Now is the time to look after pastures. It is a good practice to graze heavily and then give the paddocks a spell in turn. * * * \\ hat can be don© with left-over ler u lister? Store nitrate oi soda in a good shed with a dry floor. Sulphate 01 ammonia may similarly bo Kept Superphosphate may cake to some extent, but will lose little of ns value. Basic slag will keep without risk of loss. • • • Eo control ragwort a pestilential and poisonous weed, which has become well established in this country caterpillars will perform good service. The present-day cow is expected to give, say, 3001 b or 4001 b ol butterfat on the very same diet. Th© delect may not show up at once, but it will in later generations, lhe production ol the cow has been bred up. but has the bowel-capacity been increased? It certainly has not been increased •in proportion to prodm - tiou. It must be remembered that as production increases, the quantity and quality of food required increases at a greater rate, thus following the law of diminishing returns. This means that as it is impracticable to breed up an animal possessing enormous digestive capacity it is ess; ntial that food of high fetding-valu. and less bulk, such as farm g” 1 silage, and hay, be subsju especially in times of grass -