FARM AND GARDEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 3, 23 June 1883, Page 4

FARM AND GARDEN.

The ' Post ' understands that Mr. Frederick Brady, shcop farmer, of Pahaufcanui, is about to patent an invention for conveying sheep into sheep dips. It can also bo used for loading or discharging 1 ships and railway trucks with lire sheep. We are infonncd that Mr. Brady has had over 20 years' experience in sheep farming, and has long folt the want of some better method of handling the sheep to save pulling and knocking them about at dipping time. No doubt this invention, if found workable, will prove a grent boon to the sheep farmers of New Zealand. A considerable; quantity of linseed has been imported from the West Coast this season, which has cost two pounds per ton freight and expenses to Auckland, and yet the farmers are so satisfied of it giving them a payable return that one gentleman, who has grown about one hundred acres this season, intends growing two hundred acres next y°ar. The Union Oil, Soap, and Candle Company have been the purchasers of all the seed imported, and we learn, arc prepared to purchase next season a quantity at English prices. When we take into consideration that farmers here have to accept English prices for wheat less freight and expenses, surely linseed ought to prove a profitable crop with a local market. Now is the time to prepare the land and make the preparations for the spring sowing, and it is to be hoped that many will avail themselves of this opportunity of testing the capabilities of this province for the growth of linseed. — ' New Zealand Herald.' Young Trees in exposed localities should be guarded, during the winter months, against being blown over by heavy winds. If stakes are used for this purpose they must be driven in firmly and deep enough not to be thrown out by frost, else they leave the tree in a worse condition than if it had not been staked at all. Provision should also be made to prevent the rubbing of the bark against the stake ; this may be done by wrapping pieces o[ old carpet or straw bands around the stems. There is less danger from ihis cause when two stakes are used for each tree.