Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4389, 23 March 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

THE-FAEM. OW.e yppr J>jg? plenty of clean *« to dnnk Piga should never be fed on df * Billed meat, or they will be rendered fqr humdlii cqrisUfnptiqn. tPigS> should, he fqd rqgufaijlv each ky. v> r Tbis regalaTity 9% g is of value to the animal. ~ In swine, as in other domestic -ani* ajs, temper, size, shape, and quality © determined byJinh'erifahce. o'"p The young pig can be weaned at x weeks old, as he is born with '•ih‘ with which to naasticaje. his

A sow should not be allowed to rrow until fifteen months of age, id t«ro litters a year are quite sufstent.. ' i j

il ■ -vf-r ■ . -■ ;J should be earned out at tree weeks old, so that the pig. nap me to recov^r a before being, weaned. ;»The strong, vigorous, healthy pig, t the one to resist-disease, hence the ecessity pjgs in this conitibn. V.-!? No animal-is’so liable to contagious isease as the pig, therefore only good and pure water should be < m - ,

To. breed pigs at _a profit it is nepesiiy to fe'ed them well from, .the .time ley are\ farrowed until ready for langhterlngv; 1 ■ J Many a promising i foal is injured, nd some are positively rained by the ijudicious treatineut they receive at reaning time'. \ ~ f .

The practice of periodically grazing marable fields qf a farm invariably jacts favourably on the years of follow. . ? ; v Little calves .are like children, iarly learned habits are nd if you spoils your heifer you will ave a spoilt cow. Calves should ever beiU-trqated, but* always.petted,. 'his gives them a feeling of condence, which makes them tractable ver afterwards. By training calves roperly a herd is soon • created that ill be a source of satisfaction, and rofit. .. When dairy farmers learn tat it is easier to keep calves and Bifqrs from losing condition than it >to put them back into condition fou^ ation The faUow should be worked as

ften as possible; the more it is orked the ’more moisture will be onsqrved, ?

Among dairymen, as among other asses bf men, there are a number E traditions. Some are sound but le majority are just the reverse, mong the latter is the potion Ihat id first calf, whether male,or female, not ilp to T 'hhe standard of those at come after.. There can be very tile sense, or jreaspn y ip thip idea. . cow breeds, frqim he^, jnherpnt aturethat which she has inherited -om her ancestry. If she has a long inherited quality, why should le not impart it to her first calf? Iff is has not inherited, such quality ill she ever impart it? It is of ore importance to dairymen, to know tat a heifer gives evidence of a rqng dairy than anyting else. So far as experience goes, ipre is no foundation for the belief tat the first calf of a heifer ... will not >ake as good an animal for breeding urposeSyas any subsequent, progeny. Cqod bmnia a fine feed for cows, ad mudh f-elished. It is easily igpsted, and)■ nutritious. [lt coniine a quantify of bone forming taterials.' "Warm bran mashes given i cows after calving have a comirting and healing effect. Bruised »ize boiled and mixed with bran is so found, to be very useful. Farmers should, by all ipeans give It and plenty of it their stock, ich an article is of; the utmost imirtauce in 1 keeping thn animal ip »od health: 'The moot satisfactory eans of giving it is ,by placing mps of rock-salt where it r ban be >t at all times.

The cattle of Forto Bioo, estimated number about half a million a few ars ago, are descended from old >anish stock ; with an infusion of Erican blood.