Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4425, 17 June 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

WINTER RUGGING.

Ivory necessary that dairymen [ther s ookowfiers who are buying [for horses and cattle, should see [they procure ttrnng ooep, with Imps, etc , properly sewn on. In natural s:ate animals require no lar rags, but we are breeling I finer, better adapted for a speluty, but less constitutionally able knd extremes of climate. If we the bent results wo must give ivrstock comfort, and part of the ptisibility is that of seeing that a the rugs, are wet they are re" pd, and either the stock put under ter or supplied with dry rugs to the place of the wet ones, iking generally, a rug is better ashed, but the covering must be on and taken off with intelligence.

THE POULTRY YARD.

[kings and Game had • been known England before the Christian era, [in Asia, ibe Java cr Langshan been traced back f< r thousands ears. Then there weie the Aspblb Lsia, Campine*, Spanish and Italian |8 of the South ,of Europe. These pr might be termed original vari* r known in domestication before png into the recognised list of Ids.

[he Mediterranean breeds were wn as remarkably good layers of Ite eggs. The Asiatics as not so d layers, but laying well in the ter. and producing brown eggs.

I. new process has been introduced ■preserving eggs, by which it is lined that eggs can be made to roll their new-laid freshness for sis pths.. The theory underlying the t discovery (states the Loodon [ndard ”) is that an egg decomposes Ing to the entry of bacteria through I shell. By this new process the Ills are first dip-nfected, and then merged m a vessel of hot paraffin pin a vacuum. The air in the 111 is extracted by the vacuum, and pospberic pressure is then allowed pater the vessel, when the hot wax forced into the “ pores ” of the shpll Ls hermetically sealing them, and kporation of the contents, which has ■armful effect, is therby prevented, p tip p gg practically sterilised, me new-laid eggs treated in this way l months ago by a Hull firm have Bn submitted to chemical and mircopic examination, and found hil*to new-laid in every respect, e inside of the* shell showed that p wax fills up the pores, and its conits are thus rendered immune from external influences. It is claimed it eggs treated in this way will oh 4Jte per 1,440 more than those jserved in lime-water, or by waterisb, and 32s more than eggs kept in Id storage. ■to ' *

A series of important experiments a'to be conducted shortly by farrajin the Wairarapa district. The periments are in connection with & growing of oats and wheat, from mploß provided by the New Zealand jveinment, and procured from reden. Russia, and other European untries, also Australia and Canada i(> experiments will be supervised by r G. de Bayliss, Government supers tendent of experiments.

■‘The young fellows of today,” said sturdy youngsett'er in the Wairapa recently, “will never make old set* *rs. They have nothing to do. I reernder the time when I carried timber up

Ount Holds worth on my shoulder for a mse by Karkeek’s creek. There are not nnv young fellows who would do that >wl” he finished proudly.

A farmer, Mr. A. Howie, of Waverley. as very emphatic at the Ekebihuna onference in regatd to the methods of iluing the land in vogue. “My farm,” s said.“ is valued at £25 an acre, and

at is fair; but I am only allowed £5 an ere for improvements—that is unfair, e broke in the land in the days of the

aori wars, and I have lived on it connuously ever since paying all manner of xes,and assisting iu many ways to pro-

otaall interests of the district. Now ie Government has the cheek to sav the nimproved value of my land is £2O. It simply blackmail. We are being obbed.”

In connection with the application of

faitekauri residents and others interest--1 in the mining industry of the district >r the purchase of a public bat‘ery at i r ailekfiU i, members of the Ohinpinuii lounty Council have decided to visit the •strict and go into the whole question, n the requisition to he County Council it •as s.atiO that the Hon R. McK>i zie

[cognised the value to the district of ich a battery, and was prepared to graut subsidy of £2 for £ I.' The Council wa ? sked to c ntribute £SOO. It was stated

lat there was a large amount of payable re in the Durbar, Jubilee. Scotia,* and koesuq mines.

'''The largest hog raised for many years iast was recently slaughtered at Elton Vood Minor, near Brays Cross, in Newport. The animal was a Jersery Red »oar, 2£ years old, weighing alive 10091 b ud dressed 13861 b. This huge swine, rhich was the property of Mr. William larris, of West Smithlield, measured Oft rom tip of its nose to the end of its tail, t measured 2gft across the loins, 2.}ft cross the ham? and 6ft in girth. 'Phis takes the hog 3ft throngh. It is split at ie shoulder and to look into the carcass ,is like looking into the crevice of a avem.

The circumstances under which Mr. Jeorge Westinghouse, h< ir to a forfuue >f £10,000,000, first met the lady who s shortly to be his wife, form a romance ft real life’ She was Miss Brocklcbank, laughter of an Englisn baronet, and was dsiting a relative in the United States. Whilst there she expressed a desire to ro over the renowned Westinghouse vorks. Of course this was easily ar•inged and on the day in question a partilularly smart young workman was told iff to show her everything. M ; ss kocklebank found him part ; cularly Entertaining and well informed so much o that at the end of hpr inspection she •xpressed a hope that they would meet igain. They did and he was introduced o her as Mr. George Westing house, heir ■at the works and all the millions that go vitbit. But he wa? just in the shops ike any other workman to get a good :»rip of the business, 1