Thrift in Farming

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 315, 2 October 1917, Page 4

Thrift in Farming

jTo THE EIUTOH 1 Sir.—Looking about tho country lately it seemed to me that many farmers did not see where they were wasting. I refer to grazing stock. As grass was so poor this last winter most peoplo had their stock spread over all the paddocks. This is false economy for both grass and stock. Tho grass gets a large per centage of its food from the air, and also needs leaves to breathe and to " digest" its soil foods. To keep it continually cropped short hampers these proceedings, which is waste. Stock also like a change. Like human beings '•change" is the best food and medicine. I am thinking now of a £3O per cow per l\ acre's man. He had 10 paddocks, and put his cows into a different paddock every day. Also of the man who told me he had lost neither sheep nor lambs last season. I said " How did you do it?" He replied ''Shifted them overy day." Yours etc., A FARMER.