Farm and Garden.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 133, 22 February 1909, Page 4

Farm and Garden.

I To a man v. ho is determined to suc- [ cced ?i failure is gentially an inceni tivc to further effort. i Where a general line of live stock farming is being followed, there need be but little fear of a decline in the productive capacity of the farm. __ • ;i ' During the last ten years over 80,000 tons of wattle-bark has been produced in South Australia, equal \o consideri ably more than half a million sterling in value. In Paris the flesh of horses, donkeys, and mules intended for human consumption is going to be taxed at the rate of 2s lOd for every 1001b. A soft cloth is better to. rub the dirt from a horse's leg than' a comb. Some horses are very sensitive about the use of a comb on their legs; a cloth they will never object to. _.. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company expect to benefit largely so says the chairman of the i company—by the shipment of frozen Chinese pigs to England. The time has come when.every farmer should know ju3t what it costs him to produce a bushel of potatoes, wheat, cats, or any other product; in fact, what it costs him to produce any ; and everything he raises. It may not be generally known that France about half a century ago im- ; ported between three and four million sparrows to protect the fruit trees and garden*. This was the result of previous war on small birds. In Canada stock have to be artificially fed fully six months, if not more, every year. Lucerne responds readily to manure, even when plants arc vigorous, and growing in geod soil. ~ The Chinjse u?e a wheel-barrow with a wheel in the cxactccntrc with two crates or boxes. TJiis barrow will carry about 3001b., rind a strong Chinaman will wheel it about twentyseven miles a clay over a dry road. Anyone who plants his crop year after year without knowing what they cost him i.<* working in the dark. He only knows at the end of the year whether he has come out even or ahead, and does the same guc-«s-work year after year.