On the Farm.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 June 1913, Page 4

On the Farm.

- ♦- . The application of lime to the soil is one of the oldest methods of treatment known in agriculture. It was apparently employed by the I^oinnns •■I 2000 years ago. In various European | countries ir. has been practised for ; many years past. In fact, in all j countries where llio principals of agriculture are scientilically pursued it i.3 recognised that the use of lime in j various form 3 may be of immenso j benefit to the soil. i The record price for the Burnside yards, Dunediu, last week, was broken by a wether, which changed hands •at 535. A ndiole pen of wethers sold at 49s each, this price also constituting a fresh record. A pen of two-tooth wethers brought 40s Gd, and ewes sold as high as 37s Gd. I "In Auckland there are 230 schools I giving agriculture instruction (out of I 594 schools and 108 part time schools) .! and as this work was proving so ! satisfactory :t had been decided to i npnojnt arK.ther iiisUnci'cr.'' So said j the Chairman of the Education board • (Mr G-. J. .Garland) at the opening of i the new Papapa School. The best dairy returns yet secured in New Zealand, at per acre, are those credited to a man residing on the outskirts of Christchurch (says an ex. change). Last season he secured from his little farm of 32A acres £900. This season the returns are £975. Recently he was offered £175 per acre for his property, but he declined. He was novice when be began his work, but the principal was instinctively his that lesuits could not be! got "from I cows unless they were fed. j Potato-growers in search of new j varieties may be interested to learn of a new tuber, named The Bute Mary, raised by Mr E. Duncan, of Iviiwhinlock, Bute (Scotland). It is oval-shaped white, medium early, of very "oocl ; (puality, a heavy cropper, and free from j disease. This is its third, season in i Scotland where the originator has 1 tested it . thoroughly.