Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4419, 3 June 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

An auc'vneer at Bywn Buy, N.S. W., was fined £l7 for Belling a a diseased cow to a farmer.

?■ In parts of America experiments have shown that Japanese mi'let. is greatly rolishod by the cows as a green feed, and ia a good milk producer. I' is a rank grower, and needs a liberal dressing of manure.

The Ngairp i Taranaki) branch of the Farme s’ Union has carriod a remit td *he Provincial Conference that dairy herds be more frequently in’ epected by qualified men.

During March the N.Z. Dairy Union turned out 11 tone of butter and 6£ f onfl of cheese more than was produced during ihe corresponding month Inst year. The increased output is due entirely to increased milk supply, the splendid autumn experienced having been most favourab'e f»r milk production.

Comfort and abundant feed are the keyno’es to success in handling the dairy herds. "Without comfort the piilk fixw will dwindle.

The highest priced farm product. P'-und for pound, that the farmer sells is hutter. When sold, it takes the If ait fertility from the farm.

Any dairyman continuing his work without any check on his animals may attribute his success, if he has any, merely to luck. A valuable dairy cow is very often sold much below her value, simply because her owner had no way of actually determining whit her value was to him as a butter-fat producer. * The value of butter sent away to London last, season was greater by £190,751 than in the previous season. The cheese increase was £288,007. The total inciease in the value of both butter and cheese exports for the season. so far as it has gone, is £478,761, despite lower prices. The Danes have found out how to improve milk by giving a judicious amount of oats to cattle when the milk is watery. About one-half to x three»quarters of a pound would be sufficient p?rhead per day. The farm needs the hoys and the

boys need the farm. No one is so suited for farm work as the farmer’s son, and the best place for mbst boys is on the farm.

Mr B. G. Alexander, the newly-

appointed director of Lincoln Agricultural College (recently manager of the Albert College, Glasnevin, Ireland), pays that in the matter of practical ehinnHon in dairy matters, Ireland leads New Zoaland.

The export of dairy produce from New Zealand for London last season

show: a satisfactory increase. Butter to ailed 530,000 boxes , as compared ' with 389,080 f>r the previous season, and cheese 238.400 cases, as against 173,289 last year.