PUKEKOHE EAST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 262, 27 March 1917, Page 1

PUKEKOHE EAST.

THE FAKMING INDUSTRY (By Our Travelling Koporter.) In many of the paddocks around Pukekohe East there aro some good crops of ruaise which provide excellent food for dairy cattle at the back of the season. Advantage has been taken of the recent sunshine for extensive ploughing preparatory to sowing grass and other seeds and where trouble has been occasioned by the presence of weeds in the grass deep ploughing is calculated to improve the ground considerably. Dairy cattle in this district are largely of the Shorthorn-cross and are in tirst class order. One farmer who has a good heid of 20 cows and milks the whole season told the writer that these produced 4501bs of milk with a 4.4 test. The pasture on this particular farm looked remarkably good and his 88 acres bore every indication of careful and consistent work.

Not far from this farm a late crop of Ruakura oats had recently been cut which for a small are? produced a good crop. On some of the rougher paddocks b ackberries seem to stretch their roots just as they please and Master .Bunny, ever on the increase, is another formidable pest, due in cither instance to some extent by a ecaicity of labour.