Facts and Figures for Farmers.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 February 1911, Page 3

Facts and Figures for Farmers.

• _ The wave of agricultural education moves oti slowly, but surely. Potatoes..should not be planted in the same soil two years in succession. _ Whether you are buying or sellling, get all the information you want. All weeds- damage the appearance of a farm and render it less valuable. Oats are one of the most important feeds we catu give to-growing chicks, as it is a. muscle and bone builder, and makes fine feathers.

It /has been found beneficial to work the land after every rain, using the harrows or the cultivator, ■according to the quantity of moisture on. the ground. SuC,cess will not come the first year. In fact it takos two or more years to get started: in the -poultry business, aiul fallen you must keep everlastingly at il to make a success.

Some hens are born layers, others acquire the laying habit, others get credit' for being N good layers when they are not. The' trap nest picks them out and loaves no guess work. Some good yields of ryegrass are reported from Southland! The Winton Record states that the crop on Mr M'Hugue's farm near Winton threshed about 60 bushels per acre —a splendid sample. (Sn Mr Martin Crowo's farm a crop from forty acres yielded 50 bushels to the acre. The Town and Country Journal, Sydney, says: "It is many years since tho coastal areas, particularly the south coast of New South Wales, received so much rain as has fallen during the past fortnight. Floods were common in that part of the State, every town almost, . being more or less inifndated, entailing hardships and. loss on a great number of products. _ A similar condition of affairs exists on the Hawlcesbnry. Farm horses should be broken in at three years old, and n-iven light work at first. Late foals and comparatively short rations are_ factors in tho success of pony-breeding. . The principal causes of sore shoulders are over-work, over-feedin and ill-fitting collars. Milking qualities in sheep arc characteristics transmitted from one generation to another. As a ride, it will be found that the best milking sow is also the most prolific and best mother. At least half an hour should be ffiron tno horse after it lins oaton its oats before putting it to work. Separate the male birds from the females in the early brods. Keep a good supply of ovster shells before the fowls at all times. Sour or musty food is sure to start bowel trouble. Eggs have a tendency to grow smaller as the laying season advances.

Milk i'n any form may Ix 3 mvon to poultry Avitli profit. ' At Asliburton on Saturday a farm of about 20 acres, situated' on Terrace road, Timvald, was sold at Lf) per acre. The land ,had been previously leased at £3 10 per a-re Hie purchaser was Mr F. Bishop,

The larger tlie proportion of nitr.'ironnu.s compounds in the food, the "reator is the tendency to hcreasein frame and flesh, but the ma.biirinjr of the 'animal, in fact its lnttenino;, depends trroatly on the amount of certain digestible cdunitro/renous constituents in the f:::xl. In Kent (England) sunflowers arc sown in well-worked around hoavilv manured. and' cut for I'eedin.r to piss and poultry, whir'- thrive on tnem.

The first contest in the tinted States eoinmen.'el last year, u lion 10,000 lions frnm Europe ami America enffii.'K d in a iniional compel ition.

> summor the stable door* and windows on mint ho ton w.'delv open wnen the animals are in. This j s , pernaps, of less moment in the case <)l |-ntt]p t!-in in tlie case of horses. . 1 Iro1 r0 T"> commonly kopt in [■'•eir stables in summer as well as in winter, on account of the great?r convenience.

Tn nianv part's of Europe th? catering o| nii!k is l>»--•i-i S p the cow or f.-mt.s driven • ! 01i t!i:> s l to t!ii door of the customer, an 1 nrlked in his pros ence. I lie milkman h.'\s different measure-;, ra , "'i'!'': in size from an e itli o! a p:nt f.j a. r/ivi-rt, .ind one can buy one :e::t's w;.rth of milk if desired.