Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes.

TILL GRASS KILL TREES ? •;><*rn •T v ' •- ?? •* : . 5 % • # ' | stended experiments : .recently uct<d have shown clearly that: trees Buffer very -materially, and Eten killed "outright, when grass owed to grow under the tree and up to the trunk. Various ible fen sens for this effect, such a removal of plant food, and of by the grass,, the sup- ’ liberation of carbonic acid, i might prove injurious to the of jhe trees, were respectively nstrated to be outside the iry cause of injury, and, finally, seven years’ work, it was uded that the injurious effect 1 only be due to some poisonous tance formed n the soil by the }of the grass-. On the other 1 it is a well-known fact that in y cases considerable difficulty is irienced in obtaining a growth of 3 under trees. ie dairy factory in Taranaki s an increase in its output for nonth of October, of ten tons of w r, when compared with the ) month, of last year, oars of laughter greeted th® arance of a supplier at a Hawera r factory one morning recently, verhment inspector was visiting ctory, a fact which was known vy previously, and the supplier istion drove in to the factory washed from head to foot. It known whether the inspector iated the joke. wheat crop in the three provinces of Canada is ed at 110,000,000 bushels, 5j000,000 bushels, and barley 000 ' busfiels, a - total of i,OOO bushels, or an increase >O,OOO bushels over .last year, rrain vastly superior in r, - ATffmer writes to the Dannevirke Press: —“An individual called here to say he was a dairy inspector, and I am told there are 600 .of this class over-running this fair land. Well, this chap had the impudence to try to prevent me from making a bit of * butter for the use of myself and famity, unless I put down a concrete floor to milk one cow on. Well, I thought things were getting hot, so I showed this joker the gate, and he was soon a disappearing speck in the distance. Farmers, beware of those new dairy regulations ! They are only lying dormant until we are r t safely housed in Wellington for another three years.” The Dairy Union is paying - £6 553 to milk suppliers for the vi- ntli of October. Of this amount ■7O has been paid out at the Union’3 cheese factory, £638 at the, San hi) iiy Factory, and £556 a" the.Foxton Factory. The individual cheques have been fairly large. One - of the Maharahara suppliers received £164 3s Bd, while the biggest cheque' at Foxton was for £7B 10s 10d. At Otahi a supplier topped the list with £73 0s lOd.