BREVITIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 446, 9 March 1912, Page 6

BREVITIES.

Late foals and comparatively short rations are factors in the success of pony breeding. For getting over work in the field a steady pace constantly maintained is better than that which kills. The stocking of the farm is a great factor in its success. It is not economy to have a farm overstocked. The kind of trees to plant for sheltering depends on the locality. In sand nothing is better than native pines. It is the duty of every farmer to be an experimentalist. It is his duty to himself and his duty to the State. Continuous work, hour after hour, drawing the plough, is about as tiring to horses as any operation on the farm. That a good many men engaged on faims are not worth the wages paid is largely the fault of the farmers themselves. ..:. There is a good deal to be gained by covering haystacks well with straw; this will prevent so much damage and waste. The best quality wheat for bread making is grown in the western parts cf America, in Russia, and the southern parts of Argentina. Horses cannot be too well cared for; they should have good, comfortable stables, with mangers which will cause as little waste as possilbe. A single horsepower is a force sufficient to raise 33,0001b one foot high in one minute, or lib 33 000 ft vertically in one minute. The day is at hand when a farmer will be ashamed to say that his land is poor, for it will at once be known that he is a poor farmer. In 1860 wheat was grown as far north of Chicago as 200 miles, and only 40 years later it was found growing 1000 miles from the same place. . Swine typical of the best breeding require but two or three generations of wrong environment to degenerate to the level of the most unapproved types. A common sense type of pig in the hands of a common sense breeder constitutes a combination best calculated for satisfaction and profit during a succession of years. ' Small birds are giving orchardists around Palmerston a considerable amunt of trouble. Blackbirds are the worst offenders, destroying great quantities of fruit. No man in this age can make any money out of scrub mongrels. It is the one-half, three-fourths, or at least one-fourth blood cow that must be kept to furnish any profit in the dairy, The management of the Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon, has arranged for tin supply of frozen sterilised milk frorr Australia. The local milk is said tc be a fertile course of enteric fever. It will pay to give all implements such as strippers, harvesters, binders waggons, etc., a coat of paint even other year, or even every year. This will prevent the wood from cracking and warping.