Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43326, 16 May 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

Jhe -, market, a - Canterbury wool broker thus condonses Ids jvieyrs ; oh the . present tooneto: -aspeotThe market,” he, jMudt - V w/Bjatj up and down at ■ • present slump.injhe market had not comerse a surprise <to those interested in ithe trade' h There was,One' feature in • connection with the wool that was > being produced in Canterbury that Would have a prejudicial effect on the market in the future, and that was the inferiority of the wool, which was -mainly due to farmers keeping sheep which were inferior themselves through‘in-breeding. [The time was neVer more 'opportune for an improvementthe breed of sheep, which^wdrh r 'di§geheratihg.'all over the dohffnionj; -and thls’ degeheration thus, affected both ; the 'wool, and the frdzehm6at ( expoiH; traded '* j; -Butter frauds, are alas, too frequent W' “»«> ,»W”;,but when mstead, impudence has : W&\omm its limit.: A Poliee Court with obtaining ,13s 6d by false, pretences, and with applying the i false trade description of butter to - broken; brpksand.. ashes. It Was ' stated for. the prosecution that - the prisoner; induced a Mrs Baldwin to purchase from him what he reprepresented to be a keg of butter, containing 18lb at 9d per lb; and for thip sale paid him 13s 6d. While the bargaining was going ' on, Mrs 1 Baldwin tasted the butter,and found itfco of good flavour, but when she subsequently inserted a knife she discovered that beneath a' layer one and a half inches thick of butter," the keg containing nothing, except brickbats and asheS* The prisoner was committed for trial; ' PIG-KEEPING.

keeping is a questioh often asked, and just as often as not. answered in tip negative. It all: depends, however,- on circumstances, and froni;' Which point of view the; matter is Ipoked at (says an experi®ocsd.pig.preedsr in the u Farmer and Stockbreeder.”) Piga are certainly the of the farm, > and they consume many of the Coarser products of both farm; and : garden which other-; wise could [not ]be made; use of. For instance, there are diseased potatoes, l waste garden stuff, slops, and so on, from tlm house, and where there is a dairy there are the whey and the buttermilk. : It is on account : of the latter items that in the writer’s opinion pig-keeping ia so much more profitable ; to the dairy harper than to anyone elfle. i He has-constantly by him two very Valuable' pig foods which* V • Will go a • long 88 a* e with barley iheal or pollard, vCrJr a'o on convert pigs into [ pork or bacon at the smallest possible' fHWt. It is thus that a profit can be ®ade out, of ■ pigs,;' but Where everythrng has tb 'be bought it is very doubtful if they can rnver be made to enow* profit, unless pedigree'pigs are kep|wandj hQ half kcpt nn waste matter or on; food be fed tb any other faob as whey; or buttermilkj then it is possible^' vritfi good* /management, to make a. fair Mtum out of the breeding, -rearing, UPm.:.: ;