Farm and Garden

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 273, 2 July 1910, Page 3

Farm and Garden

MILKING MACHINES GENERALLY ADOPTED. 4 Today the public feeling towards* milking machines is in strong contrast to what it was some years ago. The practical results obtained over a period of eight years by hundreds of the Lawrence-Kennedy Gillies machines has completely dispelled all prejudice and the public now acept any machine with the utmost con•fidence. It must, however, be pointed out that the combination of valuable patents Which produced the first successful milking machine are only embodied in the L.K.G. and are not licensed for use in any other machine, therefore more recent inventors have to rely on different methods all of which require the fullness of time before their reliability and continuous success is established. In buying the L.K.G. you.-get a warranty . which eight success has writtenV|i£lsjj»|lf. You can buy the L.K.G. itne most perfect confidence that next season, the season after, and for years to come you will i obtain the same continuously successful results. We can send you the names of over 700 New Zealand farmers who are using these machines for profit and who can substantiate our claims. Particulars, prices and liberal terms on application to J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., Fort streetj Auckland. * ARTIFICIAL MANURE. A compound on basic slag and sulphate of ammonia would be an admirable manure for soils poor in lime, but hitherto an admixture of the two commodities has failed, because the caustic lime in the slag rise to loss of ammonia. The Chemical Trade Journal now calls attention to a process invented by a German, who claims to have overcome the above drawback. The basic slag is mixed to a cream with water, and then with a concentrated solution of ammonium salt, containing just sufficient free acid to combine with the free lime of the slag. This adjustment of the amount of acid must be carried out with some precision, and the resulting mixture is heated in closed vessels connected with absorbing apparatus for the recovery of some ammonia which is usually set free, as it ia found best to err on the side of adding too little acid rather than the reverse. The product is concentrated to stiff paste, dried, and ground. It is found to be free from lime, and-to have had it" citratesolubility much less changed than would be the case were basic slag treated with the same quantity of sulphuric acid without simultaneous addition of ammonium salts.

BREVITIES. The day has arrived when farm work has to be got down to a system; the time of the rule-of-thumb has gone by. - The health and vigour of the horse depends much upon the regularity and sufficiency of the supply of nourishment.

When one of the- horses begins to slobber have a look in bis mouth; there may be something wrong with the teeth. As a pig is raised only for its meat, the sooner it can be turned into meat "the sooner is it turned into money. The danger of wasting 3oil fertility lies in the fact that it takes place so slowly ho acount is taken of it until too late. Disease germs are present on nearly every farm. The best way to fight them is to keep the stock in a healthy condition. ». Where the cultivator is run over the fallow and„-there is no subsequent harrowing, the result is usually a paddock of clods. - Over 275 years ago Jethro Tull (ah Authority of those times), said, ."Tillage is manure." I' .was true then, arid it is now.