Farm and Garden

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 275, 9 July 1910, Page 3

Farm and Garden

MILKING MACHINES GENERALLY ADOPTED,r Today ; theV public 'feeling ,towards; ; milking ;rnachinesiis: in strong'. ephr' trast tbwHat it wSs' 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 milking, machine with the utmost confidence. 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, yo'u ' get ; a warranty which eight continuous success has written for "itself. You can buy. the L.K.G. with the .most perfect confidence that next season, the season after, and for years to come you will obtain tjie same continuously successful results. We can send you the names of over 700 New Zealand farmers who are using these machines for profit and whojian substantiate our claims. Particulars, prices and liberal terms.on application to J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., Fort street, Auckland. * Cabinet has authorised the expendi-' ture of £ISOO in the Old Country in the purchase of Jersey cattle. The Minister for Agriculture has secured the assistance of a man who is now at Home, and who has a thorough knowledge of dairy stock, to make the purchases; Mr Mackenzie, also hopes to be able to purchase some Holsteins in America. The aim of the Government is to establish first-class dairy herds at Ruakura and Waeraroa, on lines that will ensure the history of the progenitors of the stock being known Attention has been drawn to the fact that one of the free" services performed for farmers by the Agricultural Department is the analysis of soil from farms, for the purpose, among other things, of determining the value of the soil, and the chemical elements it lacks, so that they may be supplied by manuring. A reporter who inquired at the Agricultural Department as to the best method of forwarding soil I samples to Wellington was informed that holes should" be dug in three or four places at fair distances apart about two feet deep and cleaned out, after which a clean slice should be taken from each hole to : the bottom pc the top soil, or to "a depth of not more than nine inches. v The soil .taken from each hole should be mixed well together, nai a sample of about ten pounds, including stones, root fibres or anything else it contained, should' be sent carriage paid to the chief chemist at Wellington. If the soil is of manifestly different qualities in different parts of a field separate samples should be sent, and in every case a sample of one or two pounds of subsoil should accompany the soil. A letter of advice is always necessary.