Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 12 November 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes.

> * pj|mtinued from last issue) rvT ; The prospects of a future in which

*' cows Bhall give more and richer k ‘ 1 * and sheep more wool, in which plants r s<~ from wheat Jto potatoes, shall be free |j§ from disease, as well as a prospect of Up £s■ an. insight into the {secret of the, f';i« determination of sex, where held out •' in a very 'remarkable debate on i: “ Science of the farmer.” On the more humorous contributors to the ;v debate suggested that we might even get unreliable cow that did not require milking on Sundays.

Every speaker contributed some striking fact. Professor Bateson began by an explanation of the Law of Mendel, by which many of these wonders are to be worked. He - shewed by an analysis of the Stud Book that the chestnut colour in . horses and that curious form of trotting known in America as pacing were inherited according to strict laws. He showed a pedigree of eight ener- • ationnamong .European peasants in which the inheritance of a certain eye disease could be exactly prophesied, ' as well as the sex in which it appeared. It was Mr Punnett who proved that

pa V a wheat-had been bred at Cambridge $ - absolutely immune from the serious disease of rust. Mr Heape, another speaker, showed that the feeding of the mother had a vital counection with the excellence of the lamb and the calf, and perhaps other animals, •; also that these species of animal makes the fodder on the ground on \ which it is fed for a year or two less suitable to itself, but equally suitable for another species Therefore, rotation of animals is as important as rotation ef crops.

A little forethought may save you no and of trouble. Anyone who makes it a rule to keep Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand knows this to be a fact. For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agent.—Advt.