NOTES FOR FARMERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 149, 23 February 1916, Page 4

NOTES FOR FARMERS.

Mesterton farmers are fir.diDg seed-growing a profitable undertaking, and land is now being prepared in various parts of the district for autumn and spring sowings. During the past season there has te:n an unsatisfied oemand for Wairarapa grown s.ed, and this has l?d many farmrs to give seed cultivation their attention. There ia urdojbteily a big future before the Wairarapa in seed production. Some of the best Alsyke Eetd in New Zealand is grown in the Masterton iistrict. There is a big opening in the Wairarapa for cocksfoot, if proper attenti mis given to i ! s cultivation. Cocksfoot equal to the best grown in Hawke'a bay or on the Akaroa Peninsula can be, cultivated in Wairarapa with very little trouble

Food ecjivjiiiy was tbc subjet of a lecture by Professor Halliburton at a recent meeting of the London ins'iutte of Hygiece. The lecturer corrected many mistakes that have bee i rnacV by faddists, lie explained that bacon was the cheapest fiod of all even at the exhorbitanl prices at present ruling in England However much tt<- bacon bill went, up, he advised the housekeeper to prefer it to beef cr mutton, because a pound of it was all food of some kind, whereas a pound of beef, pleasant enough io eat, was, alter all, mestly water. So he oraised the pig es giving better human fjod than any other animal. He said that the pig was the easiest kind of Hish fooJ to produce, b cause it was the most easy ta fee*, and one of the most piolilic. ll was a cheap, ntcaßsary and economic animal