On the Farm.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 July 1913, Page 4

On the Farm.

lv connection with the subject of high herd tests the Eltham Argus states that Mr T. W. Burke has a herd of 38 Jersey>Holstein cows and supplies tho Lowgarth factory. His test for the season just closed avorngod S. This is a tine test, for a whole herd, and is uot easily beaten.

The Fields and Experimental Earnis Division rej^lies to a correspondent : - Woll-rottod farmyard manure is a good fortilizor whoro humas is deliciont. If heavy amounts are not available, «rua)l amounts used in connection with artificial fertilizers will be found very beneficial. The following mixed fertilizer can be recommended por acre : 2 cwt. to 4 ewt. superphosphate, lewt. to 2 cwt. sulphate of potash, and 1 cwt to I.V cwt. sulphate of ammonia. This should bo applied before planting the potatoes. Tho following are good varieties for light soils : Early Vermont, America Early Rose. Henderson Improved Early Puritan, Robin Adair, aud British Queen. 12 cwt. to lo cwt, of cut sots per acre should bo p Lin ted. Land should be deeply cultivated. Use clean and even-sized seed. Keep down weeds between chills by scarifying, and earth as high as uossible.

A feature of the displays of the Agricultural Department at the winter shov,-3 of this year j.i a st-t of ti n weed-cards, exhibiting about a hundred and lifty varieties ol! weed plants corrocMy named (with both the common and botanical titles) and with descriptive matter regarding them, Tho cards will be subsequently available for lending to rural societies ivho may desire them for the benefit of their members.

Rabbits seem to have ceased to be a pest in Southland, especially wheie bush and other cover doee not exist to any considerable extent, trapping at the proper time being sufficient to keep them within bounds' 5 What v change time effects (says the Newsl When they were introduced for sporting purposes, so valuable an asset were they considered that at New River, where a number were liberated, a notice was posted pointing out that anyone found destroying them would be punished as the law directed. The sandy waste this side of Riverton beach was then covered with native growth, the transformation being due to the operations of the rabbits,