Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43323, 9 May 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

' J ;&geiitiy:e powers; it is the height of * - ¥ ffolly Vto > Keep the pig on [short . j. ; , Ofeo,|Dairy .Commiesioner report®, v that ; at|the’ end of March there ;were ; • ; f 106,750 Iwxes of butte* in cold stores , inthe Dominion'. - . h -• : oi j. •; The making of good butter begins ’ x nrith .the-'cai'e ; Of- the cows, and is ■: : _1 on the •markets— 1 " • \ V ; iV -..vj .ac’ The “ fop price recorded for oats 4l£ Southland, so' far is (says a Goire paper) 3d a bushel, . - 'paid'/lfa.£pWyhdha.ni Sarrher the other ' day <for ar choice line of Gartons. [ '* farmer starts-with a pure-bred ;;;bw'*<m,-aerufr -stock, ; and; ;keeps on breeding his grade . cows to a purebe will have stock that is' 96 J per cent. pure. ....-'/jSTo', aged. 'sow.: who has proved . ' hehtelf;' aV. good i breeder, or: suckler ‘ of, to make rooih r sows, so long . .[as. : she.Raises large 'litters .of good • ■ On. many-of, the American dairy farms the employees are obliged, to. wear:specially. made .clothes of white material and a cap tb match, and use sanitary milk-pailb :c tO help in the > production Of elean: hhlk. ; t - , - A cow, the r property of a Brogo, fprmpr,: dropped dead in the. ; . yard*uAn Texaminatfion showed bots to be the cause of death. This is the first instance repotted in the Eden districtof bots attacking cows. . . 2VI .. .. : • : JOv v Growing pigs heed plenty of exerr,.<dse,s jt .will be tiipe enough to,confine them" when ready to fatten, A system of feeding should be followed ; ; that;will prevent:all possibility of / ; .checking the growth when the pigs y are-weaned. Keep them quiet, clean, ' • and comfortable if they are to make . -the best gaih. ' \