NEWS AND NOTES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 358, 20 October 1932, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

WONDERFUL GROWTH. The weather experienced during the past week has been exeeptionally favourably to dairy farmers. Plentiful rains haye fallen and the spring growth of feed has everywhere heen remarkable. The season has, in faet, been an exceptional one in all respects and farmers will have to get early to work on their ensilage to cope with surplus growth. This is where careful management of pasturage is going to add to the profits. „ Reports from dairying districts all over the province show that the flow ,&t dairy factories is going up by leaps and bounds. At one cheese factory it l\as been found necessary to jut on a -niglit shift to handle the sup>ply. * * =:•-

Messrs. Taylor and Kent, of the chemistry division of the Agricultural Department, are paying a visit this week to the Atiamuri and Tokoroa districts for the purpose of observing the result of limonite treatment in | the stock of those localities. The sheep I at Humphrey's station will first come j under review and they will then pass on to inspect the dairy herds of TokoI roa and discuss the position with the ! farmers using the lick. The benefit ■'of this visit will be twofold — the de- • partment will obtain rnuch useful firsthand information and practical demonstrations of results and, on the c'ther hand, farmers will be hrought ir.to direct contaet with experts who can give valuahle advice. ❖ % ❖ * A party of Tokoroa farmers has arranged to visit Ngakuru on Saturday. They will be met by Mr. C. Dalgleish, lields inspector, and shown over the demonstration farm. Experiments in manurial treatments will be inspected and a general view taken of the progress of development in the hlocks under cultivation. =i= •!= * TAnother very interesting letter has Iseen received from Tokoroa regarding limonite treatment for bush-sickness. The writer on this occasion is Mr. L. A. Newell. "I wish to point out a feature that struck ma while we were actually milking, that is the evenness of the milk yield, apart from the acual fat content. Last year the hest day was cold and wet, but we had plenty of feed; this year's test was taken at the end of the dry spell, hefore the rain freshened the feed at all. Last year we could not use all the ensilage made; this year it all vent by the end of September. "My factory figures for the win- ! ter. that is, June, July and August, have heen exactly a-third greater this year than last the actual figures for August of each year are 3P4Gb cf butter-fat for 1932, and j 295 Rb for 1931. '"All stock is loolcing splendid and one point 1 notice is the instant response hy the milkers to a fresh paddock. I am keeping ahout 30 calves | this seoeon and am expecting great J result;- from them." Mr. Newell's t butter-fat test also rose from 14.58 j in IWI to 19.41 in 1932. j ■}' »I» V •»* | Here again we have indisputable j proof of what limonite is doing for i ihe farmer faced with the problem of j malnutrition or siekness in his stock. Men who have been "up against it" for years are now given new heart, and difficulties which, in the past, se med insuperable, are now being removed at comparatively small cost anct wtih a hanclsome return upon the cutlay, ♦