Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43383, 3 November 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes

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Tl?<> supply of milk to tlio Feathersti.n t«*-openaive Dairy Factory is 3 .-602 gallons. This is 952 gallons in excess of ihe quantity for the 81 me period of last year. The seventh vat is at present in use, and before lon it is expected that the ninth will b: called into operation.

The resident of Rangitumau, near Masterton, intend to institute an egg-laying competition, in place of t ie school garden industry, which has not frund a great deal of fa our in that district. The reason of this apparent lapse on the part of the R ingitumau school pupils is that they ha a keen bred and born on farms, and go through some part of the practical curriculum every day of their lives before and, after school hours- The egg-laying competitions will be under the control of Mr Dallaston, teacher of the Rangitumau School.—Dominion.

We have seen sandy acres left uncultivated ( says the “ Farmers’ Review ”) because they did not contain enough clay to render them profitable for farming purposes, while they were so located as to be very valuable for intensive purposes if properly ameliorated. A little improvement each year will in the course of many years change useless soil into good soil, and that good soil will remain good soil for all time, so far as its mechanical structure is concerned. The plant food supply and exhaustion is another question.

In certain experiments conducted at the Minnesota experiment station, it was found that as much wheat was obtained in the one instance from three crops grown on the bind that had produced wheat only during the same six years. The land in both instances was old ’and worn. In the first instance, the three crops of grass were secured in addition to the wheat No fertiliser was used in either instance. Th„. increase in the yields of wheat must he attributed to the influence of the grass-roots furnished to the soil.