Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43324, 12 May 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

A- CORRESPONDENT suggests the foliow- ■ i ing cheaply-made rug as very useful to/the farmer. For a calf, take a flour bag, cut it open, and scoop out the front to fit the neck. Fasten around the belly with a saddle §trap, and with a rope around the tail. For a cow, two flour bags sewn together . • - ■will be necessary. Painting the outside of the rug with paint oil will vi render it waterproof. About one pint of oil will be enough for one bag. During . the Hon. Mr Carroll’s . journey from Whakatane to Ruaftokfj Bay of Plenty, he stopped for a '/ ; ‘' Routes at Wilson’s store, on the boundary of the Urewera Country, . , > and there Mr Wilson informed the Minister, as evidence of the way the natives of Ruatoki are taking up i dairying, that he had cashed cheques from the Ruatoki cheese factory for £4OO for milk supplied by Maoris, and, the cheques were shown as evidence of /the truth of the state- . ; ment. ' ' • • If you do not give thought and attention to the poultry, do not be surprised at the small returns. It is one of Hhe interests in the ,'/- .iworldi/and you might as well gain 11 froih their possession as others. An equal value of hens will bring more money returns than the cow. If we coulj! only give this our thought, and thoroughly learn of the true value of the hen when properly handled, more ‘ : j . P o ople would be in , better condition _* • financially. Despise not the day of ft;' small things ; one egg is a small item, but In one year the total value of the reality of some Spates is equalled by . . the value of the eggs consumed in our country alone. V The test of milk is of no service Wes.s one knows the quantity. We See the statement that a cow’s i|filk tests 5. 6, but who can tell if she . ’/f Oetter than another cow unless he Knows how much she yielded at time of test ? Of what account is a 6-per-cent. test if there is only a quart or two of milk ? It ia not presumed that an honest man would advertise a cow by’ such a subterfuge; but it • ought to be stated in sale catalogues, 1 r;.. ,or in advertisements or anywhere else,'

> m connection with the test of a cow’s , . milk, how much she was yielding at the time. It is quantity and quali:y combined that counts for the most in • ;5« estimating the value of .a dairy cow. Furs UFurs ! Furs ! In real Marmot’ Bear, and Fox, and high class Russian Furs. We sell at less than Auckland ■_.. /. .prices. Try Gahagan’s Economic, The King uses Smokeless Diamond ' cartridges, loaded by Curtis and Harvey. f\ If good enough for him should suit most people. Sample at Wigg "and Co’s.— Advt *