THE FARM.

Putaruru Press, Volume I, Issue 9, 13 December 1923, Page 4

THE FARM.

The ensilage made from his eightacre crop of millet last season by Mr. P. D. Morrison, Waotu road, was quite a success. Mr. Morrison estimates that he got in all some 50 tons of cured ensilage, which comprised a stack measuring 11 feet in height, 22 feet in length ami 16 feet in width. This was partially set in the ground, Mr. Morrison having intended originally to put all the ensilage in a pit, but the amount proving* so great that the stack rose well above the top of the pit. All the silage, he states, was apparently relished by the stock, though that mafle at 130 degrees was more succulent than that made at 150 degrees.

Mr. J. Edwards has made good progress during* the past winter and spring with the development of his poultry farm, Overdale road, Putaruru. He has now a very full range of up-to-date buildings, including a concrete incubator house, a three-pen brooder house, steam-heated layinghouses, breeding pens, etc. At the beginning of the season lie had two hundred hens, wjpeh .are being* augmented by a total of about 500 pullets, Mr. Edwards having reared over 100 chickens there during the season. Roughly 50 per cent are cockerels and 50 per cent pullets. With the first two lots he had somewhat disturbing losses, but as the result of careful observation he detected the cause and remedied it. Mr. Edwards states that he will not consider the farm fully stocked until he has 1000 or more laying* hens there.