Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43350, 16 July 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

' if. st/.. ; ~n .. .... = Mn Jopir Macdonald, Stone’s Comer, Queensland, .considers the following to be a certain cure for scour in «iIT«W it-r-Oiie *. quarter pound of batter mixed; with a tablespoonful of fcki&g;pdrwder, and made into a soft JMwtjjs. .'This is put;down the calf’s throat, and the cure is effected in two hour*;' He: says that this is also a capital cure for horen. I J *vOws can be fed more economically bf . giving. them a ration fairly balanced in fftt and protein, than by feeding them an ■ unbalanced ration. ■

the question of apply- / for cheap -'l^B/,/,for'?'■ farmers ' when frafeiling to experimental farms, Mr H amidst the jgd&f|ai ; p|relpquenc9 r in favour of the proposal, , said ,he opposed the . principal of asking was what he *ms 'ofeei{%>:/>igbt see half-a-dozen well-to-do.-farmers travelling at apme poor fellows tffcp ;t«3 tw.tei,- to !; the .next place looking for work. The motion, however, a large majority.. wmm “ilk is produced undtr favourable conditions, why should a t° iMpecrionJ Whenever ?ka<i: the 7 should -hepairianyeane man hold f that it is c not the duty of, the Board of Health tp 7 |ct', matter ?, The sHealth DepartmeS* officials claim that they Mwh.in a single :i)D£taiice, inspection work baa been a hardship to *a. farmer everything possible will be done to assist suoh man; and to help him make : his conditions acceptable.— „ *.* Milk Beporter.” '

H , Many "farmers in a hurry to complete seeding operation give the land aoant cultivation. This is a t mistake. ..It will pay to delay sowing aeyfrsl days, rather than have the • iseed put in, in. unprepared land. A ’ couple of days extra spent now in paeparing tie seed bed will be well s :Worth • while. The future crop depends largely upon the start it gets in the spring time. - Seeds grown on wellj tilled land will germinate quicker, all things considered, andgrow better, than the same quality of seed sown on land not thoroughly .depurated.