AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Pigs will always drink all the water they need, and clean water should always be provided for 'them. Probably one of the greatest causes of loss of buttcrfat is separating the milk at too low a temperature. In future years, farmers would find a few trees planted to-day of inestimable value on the farm.
In Canada, during 1924. horses increased by approximately _ltlO,ooo head, Canadians 'evidently consider breeding a good proposition. Considerable/ quantities of Canadian oats are being imported into New Zealand and sold at lower prices than local grown or Australian. /Several branches of the Farmers' Union have adopted the cull cow drive scheme as initiated by the Wairarapa Provincial Union last year. The ramifications of the wheat trade in Britain are being exhaustively investigated by the Food Council. The latest statistics justified the opinion that Argentine had almost reached the maximum of beef production.
Pigs must be economically fed, and every pigkeeper must study to utilise as far as possible the foods he can grow on/the land he possesses. The use of brass ornaments on horses has b'een discontinued by the Bcrmondsey Council, as they are said to cause discomfort to the animals.
It is generally found best to breed heifers early/ milk for twelve months on the first calf, and keep them away from the bull for four months after calving, allowing them to iinish growing between the first and second caif. \ It is a matter of considerable surprise to visitors from abroad that in New Zealand, whore conditions favour tree planting so well, there are comparatively few farms and homesteads with any appreciable quantity of shei- t fer trees or timber. The area- at Riverhcad, Auckland, which the State Forest Service is about to bring into use as the site of one of the forests of the futur'e, is one of 8400 acres, which was formerly held by the Lands Department for the purpose of settlement under the homestead system. . From the publication issued by the Peruvian Government it is learned that, with the double objective of wool and carcase, Colonel Stordy first introduced Dorset Horn sheep to cross with the native sheep. Ultimately, the Southdown was found to succeed best.
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Shannon News, 4 June 1926, Page 4
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