Facts and Figures for Farmers.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1910, Page 4

Facts and Figures for Farmers.

AND GENERAL NEWS

The value of skim-milk for young stock is considerable if given tothc right kind of animals in the right wav.

In Queensland there a'.re six State farms, an agricultural college, a sugar experiment station, and n State nursery.

Tii a recent test for butter values from cows over SKJOIb live weight, first and second prizes wore won by Lincoln Tied Shorthorns.

The brood sow must not be fed with heating food the first three days after farrowing. To do this is to invite caked udders or milk fever, and kill the pigs. Tbe celebrated Wanganclla Estate and stud oi 11,000 stud sheep, in the Denilk|uin district, Xew South Wales, have been sold for. £125,000 cash.

Good food and salt are remedies for sheep infected with worms of any description.

In making butter at home it is a good thing to bear in mind that the less it is to'ijehed with the hands the 'better butter will be produced.

Whatever hours you make for milking he .regular. Thou your rows also will contract good habits of regularity of production, and evenness of yield.

Tt is not a bad plan to' teach the hull to lead from his ealf days. If the animal is used to being handled it is unlikely he will give any trouble.

Mr Tarbotton, of Baling, has, the Asl;burton Guardian states, a rftconl perec ntage of lambs this season on mi's fairni, where 12 stud Lincoln owes have 20 lambs, all doing woll—an average of 166 per cent. "Denmark under co-operative and other systems of pig-handling and bacon-making, during 1908 dealt with over 2,000,000 pics—as a. side line to her great dairying , industry.

A breeder snmmai'ises the case for the incubator as follows: The incubator is always ready. The incubator hatches a larger number of chicks than a hen. Chicks may be reared more rapidly when there is no hen to interfere. The chicks may be brooded together in large lots, thus reducing cost and trouble of rearing. Incubator chicks are not hatched with lice on them, and need never become lousy while being brooded. Your incubator is not addicted to any of tho caprices that Biddy may be addicted to, and they are legion. Incubator chicks are tamer and more tractable than chicks hatched by hens. Tills is a valuable consideration. You do nnt wait fon , an incu'lyatmr to become _ broody, nor waste time and eggs in finding out whether it is or not. It never leaves the eggs, noi tramples them, nor refuses to sit where you place it, nor throws out the eggs, nor kills the chicks a.ftci thev aire hatched.

When oatmeal gjruel is given, either as a nutrient, or as a vehicle lor medicine, the fine oatmeal should be_ used, fls the ctoar.se causes the animal to cough while being drenched. For Me same reason linseed tea >or gruel should always be strained before beinn- administered. The interesting fable of wheat germinating after lying for thousands of years in Egyptian tombs has no foundation in fact, according to reports by Mr White in Proceedings of tho "Royal Society. A wheat seed is hoary and deerepid oh attaining the age of eleven to sixteen years.