The Farm.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 July 1911, Page 4

The Farm.

IHiAOK K.EKT IN THE UOMNEY. Mr R. If. 1:1 arm well, secretary of the Anustraliaji Longwool SheepUrcodors' Assooial i:in, in explaining the position* of his society on the a'Sovc point, oxplains that tho A.L.S.A. lias only followed the lines of the Kont or .Roniney -Marsh Rreetiers' Association, Kugland, and the Xew Zealand Romivey .Marsh Breeders' Association, which include black feet in the description of the ideal Romnoy sheep. Nearly every Runtney breeder maintains that black feet are desirable; therefore black feet have boon included in the enumeration of ;>ll the other points a good Uomiiey should have. STOCK I.y"tAKANAK.T. ICvery year (says the N.Z. Farnier) in T:\raua-l\i I hero, are numerous clearing sales nl dairy -herds, and there is ample evidence that this winter the number of cows to change herds will be fewer than in past seasons. Already several herds 'have ■been disposed of by private treaty, and tho prices secured suggest that high values are the rule. One choice, well-established herd of (H) cows found a new owner at £!) per head, and the pick of (51) out of SO 2nd and Hrd calvers). were sold at €8 10s. A rather unusual sale was the pick of 10 out of 2~> three-year-old heifers i>t €9. In beef there has bce-n great activity, and the price in Auckland was hrniigb l down to 80s to 23s per 1001}):-;. owing to heavy imprirtation.s. of which alioiit 1000' head came from Hawera and district. Sheep are worth from 18s to IDs for prim; , fat wethers, aiul the general opinion is that they will shortly command Ci. It' is expected that at the winter sales' milch cows will fetch record prices. At a recent sale there was tin: , big-u-e-it yarding seen for .SO yea is. wln'ii l \\'.!it ■v-niO'iith-old steers fetched CS •Ss to" CI. NOTKS. A South Island correspondent states that the best remedy he knows lor the potato grub is to npi'iiiklo. thn t'iib-o'is with sulphur in the bags or on the ground, whioli bo says deals death to the grubs. The average threshing tallies for the mills in the Avh'biirton County for Ihe season closed are about l-'i.-1)00 liushels of mixed grain, which is fully 20.000 short of hist year's. This represents a shortage of HO,000 bushels for the Aslibiirtoiii County, the falling o(f being mainly represented by wheat. An old method sometime:; practiced in Kngland for saving (Jr. , lolinij> !Top from an attack' of fly is to take some sacks to a pole, and, after saturating them with ken.siiH , . drag the bags across the field. It is estimated that 20,000 hags of primo potatoes were grewn in the Willowbrk'ge district, South Canterbury, this season Keed is e\erwht ! re beconiing very scarce, writes a Soiit.h Isla.iid. travelling correspondent, and turnip crops are selling at good figures. prices varying from CM t<? C"j per aero. Mr. Cartwri.uht, of Miiford. South Canterbury, has grown a very large mangold of the long red varietv. It weighed (Mijlbs. Mangolds have been called the .sheet anchor of the dairyman—-but as an all-muml. farm foe I. they are invaluable. I'nlike turnips and rap? they do not Hav;::ir tho milk. "The man who raises an abundance of mangel-wurzel beets," it has bee-n •stated, "is whr/lly independent of times and seasons and gioen fond. for he has got tl.o best ini 1 k-]>r.:-Ii:'• - ing lev,! for all seasons ho couldhave. Cows never so: 1 mti tire on beets." Another hum it of the mango 1 crop is that it does not reach its priiiK-st condition uiiti! the turnip supply is exhausted, usually in- August. Every year is witnessing an increasing area linden this crop, th" territory covered ln-;t year being something tike 12.000 acres.

Anyone introducing what ho believes to be a mode I'or killing Canadian thistle can always !k v certain of a large band of tanners ready to give it a trial. Among the latest remedies announced' was tin- free application of whey to (.ho thistles, but after a sound trial and libcra.l treating, some Southland farme>!s •have found that the thistles thrive on the lit|iii(l. rnfortiinately it was demonstrated that by pouring whey on the hind that trie grass was'killed.