Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4400, 20 April 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes

h DUST FOR SLUGS. L. ' , ’ •: informs tbo r^y‘uif W'irMtlfnt -he—♦‘fh-ctUHlly pot I rid of tin pear nn I cherry ship by his trues simply with dust. I H>B method of npplyinp the dust was I somewhat unique, as, to use his own. I >words, he “pota shovel end slung I the dust over the tree. ” , The effect I ) was remarkable, as the pests were I killed right clo left, and the trees I p'acii ally cleand of them. if fENSIL\GE AS#>EHDER. ' I#ln a rvconr. of Hqird’w Diin-$ I man, the editor., siat/s The fear ’ I "fill drought that is •prevaMfograll ov< r I ' *he 1 ind is speaking in thunder tones l;4. * build a silo ’ Think of the comI fort to an v farmer wfufeV.cows are . I standing at the pasture pnte bawling 1 I for food, whose shrunken milk yields I hitsli'iYp ililiV can I pivesheiu (Yrgoixib feed; oftj ensilage I t a iyt| runk tli ajt.riio he;, wae so I vise to fill the yfeftr befo-e. There we I iiave the essence of the great economic I truth, that every wise dairy farmer I must farm with an eye to results a I year ahead. Some make it ten years, ■ like the farmer who goes systemati- ■ cany at work to hui d a good regis■f tered herd. » . i & I . The foregoing: applies with r equal ■r force to New Zealand, M at'd the I woqder is ihatrfkuyene should;..attempt ■ to go from‘year to year trusting to B the , vagaries of climate, when the B outlay of a few pounds.-wiU place the ■ ' question of a of snctfulent food ■ at any season beyond a shadow of H;'doubt. . • n ■ ' ' If • ,0- V •' ■* />

■ RUGGING THE <§)WS.

■ •* Preyious to adopting the rugging ■. system I tried various plans, as ■ giving the cows hot feed night and ■/•morning cost of! production was not H reduced, nor was the yield increased. §9 Then I covered my first cow, and was ■ so surprised at the result that I had ■ to, go oyer the tests again and . again H to make sure of the result ” (says a Jrite«ss&the Melbourne “ Leader.”) rtiiNpKther tests,which* a con* siderftbfef . expendi'ure was made in fooda .cowr,^whereas the cost H: sol&ts butter in winter without rugs H* amounted lorlid per lb., with rugs he drsd; reduced it to 0d per lb. j ■ The milking pachine does nbt ob* ■ ject : .'iq;-Tthe (least when thb cow ■ Cairtnlhd feed from the time |a cow B 9 is wnjiil ten days or sb after ||9 freshWliagv determines to a great deEl gree the paying.capacity for thb next §■ milking period. man who] stints §§9 his animal at auoh time’is not even a penny #fse, but is more than 4 a pound ||B foolish. ,„Appw ithat is; alio wed (to run H down ip flesh during winter will take her own time; after turned to MM pasture to build up her bodily tissue. time she ■Hshoutd the' v largest net the year, • ,