HEREFORDS FOR RUSSIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 25

HEREFORDS FOR RUSSIA

SOVIET’S BIG PURCHASE Pedigree Hereford cattle to the number of 112—59 bulls and 53 heifers —have recently been shipped to Leningrad by the Russian Commission, acting on behalf of the Soviet Government of Russia, and it was the third shipment made by them within the last 12 months. The Soviet Government is establishing large pedigree herds in Russia for the purpose of grading up the native stock. As Heretords already introduced into Russia have done very well In their new environment and in several parts of that vast country under varying climatic conditions, it is an. ticipated that these large shipments will become periodic. The members of the Russian Commission on their visit to Herefordshire and adjacent counties were guided by Mr. W. G. C. Britten, secretary of the Hereford Herd Book Society, and in the course of their tour of the many Hereford herd establishments they visited Herefordshire, Shropshire, ‘Vorcestershire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Breconshire and other counties. The whole consignment was conveyed to London by special train. ' The mowing and grazing of grass land has a. very considerable influence upon the constituents of herbage. There is no worse treatment for' grass land which is not well manured than to be: continually mown year after year. The top grasses are then encouraged and the more nutritious bottom grasses and clovers are gradually eliminated. Vitamins enter in to the question, of course, but there is no way of measuring them, though we know they are contained in green food. A knowledge of nutriment tables is useful, because it helps one to avoid an under supply at albuminoids, by over-feeding with materials in which it is lacking or over-feeding albuminoids througlrnot providing sufficient balancing material. A FERTILISER FOR VEGETABLES A good general manure which' is‘ suitable for almost all vegetable crops is made by mixing by weight threeparts of superphosphate, one and ahalf parts of sulphate of ammonia, and half a part of sulphate 0t potash. Allow it to settle down after mixing, and if it becomes lumpy crush it down with the back of the spade. Hoe it in among your vegetables at the rate of one ounce to. ,the‘square yard. These various ingredients can be , purchasedujmm ‘ any" ~- horticutt’ural sundriesman, or in the garden departments of -the :big Astores.‘ ,- .