Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 8 October 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes.

HOW TO GROW LUCERNE.

Small areas of land can be profitably employed for pig-feeding as green fodder, hay, or grazing; It will be of interest to those engaged in pig-raising to briefly - describe the chief • points as a guide in its cultivation and management. _ The plant grows best in deep, friable soils, containing lime, with porous .veil-drained deep subsoils. In this lucerne establishes itself rapidly, penetrates the subsoils to great depths, and eventually becomes one of the best drought resistant plants we possess. In all situations where there exists underground water, lucerne will send its roots down. Rich creek or river flats are best, provided there is no serious overflow. The long, vigorous roots of the plant grow to great depths in search of plant food and moisture. . Instances are on record in Australia where splendid lucerne pacdocks sown forty years ago are still giving six to eight heavy cuts per annum. The roots are found in a healthy state thirty feet below the surface.

This, of course, is where the plant is grown under ideal conditions, It is much shorter lived on poorer soils and in dry districts. It can be grown more or less luxuriantly on a wide range of soils. It is simply surprising how vigorous the plant is, and how it survives the greatest hardships so long as the soils, however poor, are deep and naturally or artificially well drained. No better instance of its droughtresisting capacity and hardy nature can be adduced than the case of 50 acres growing well at this college farm on low-grade soils, and with ‘drought conditions during the past three years. Lucerne is not influenced by altitude, so long as the soils are deep, warm, and well drained, and moisture is available. On lands with stiff clay subsoils, and where water is likely to lodge around the roots more than fortyeight hours, the plant does not flourish. —“ Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W”

The cough that is conti acted in the winter, and which continues through the spring and summer, nearly always indicates some throat or lung trouble, and should not be neglected. The ordinary cough medicine may soothe the throat, but it has not the power to heal, Recovery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. You cannot get a better medicine for coughs of this description than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is an excellent medicine for all throat and lung trouble, for it not only soothes the irritation, but it heals the affected parts, and leaves them in such a healthy condition, that the danger of a second attack is removed. For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agent. —Advt.