Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4427, 22 June 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

bONTAGIOUS MA.MMITIS ■ ' T jSontagGoue mammitis is causing: ible iu more plaCtS than in New Jisd. In England, where it is not c jnmtnon, a correspondent in an ] paper, whose •* vet ” could s,:bim no hope of any euro says : ! decided, therefore, to try a line of v<>^ro —somewhat violent, perhaps, t justified by results. I injected up i affected teat or teats, a corrusive j )limate solution of 1 to 1,000. I I-all cows’ udders, legs and tails ihed twice daily with permanganate pitash daily; a* Bo the lloor of r .“ e house. The only throe cows which >k the disease since I started the re completely recovered in from ir to seven days, and the milk replied perfectly normally, as though Sre had been no trouble. The intarnation commenced to subside ;hin 24 hours of the in j< ction, and three oo* 6 now show absolutely no os of ever having had it. Tho e ! treated have small, hard lumps in I udder and lost quarters. My pinion is that, where treated at once; ie cure is complete. mm k:: ■> .. It is stated that there are 200 Chiese at present in the Utaki district ngaged in market gardening. In the Nelson districts orchardists bp planting at the rate of 120 trees to te acre, and 15-year old trees are Sliding from 12 to 15 cases .to the ere.,/; ; The great secret in the career of lost poultry-keepers, successful or not kcessful, generally turns out to epend very much upon the amount f care .bestowed upon the minor etails of the management. It is stated that hawks are becom--5g every numerous around the Camridge district, and creating terror in le poultry runs. A Karapiro settler i reported to have lost a number of ucks and fowls by these hawks.

The breeder who would be successal must have the keenest discrimintionof wbot is necessary to consti* ite an animal of individual merit, or, lore properly, he must have firmly xed in his mind exact contour of a erfect pig. Then he must have an lea of the kind of bleeding Btock Lquired to produce such a pig.

The “ Western Siar” reports that

mysterious disease has made its ppearance on a farm in the Aparima istrict. It is report p d that some ighty sheep have already died and lthough the local veterinarian, Mr. Williamson and Mr. Wright, of the took Department, have examined the heep affected they are unable to form ny idea as to the nature of tho onble. The paddock and surroundigs in which the sheep are running iin a perfectly clean and wholesome mdition, so that the outbreak is un* ccountable. The Bharal sheep, specimens of bich the Hon. T. Mackenzie proposes > liberate in “ some part of the dplioion,” is the blue sheep of Thibet, 'he male stands 3ft high, with horns om 24 to 26 inches long. In Thibet le Bharal is found in herds of 10 to 00 on the high, open ground above le forests, and is never found at a >Bser altitude than 10,000 ft. It will ot> breed with the dolnestic sheep, he Bharal is well represen'ed in le London Zoo.

We all know that foods which are Wished are likely to be consumed in bnndance Their character conduces o liberal consumption and indirectly a the feeding of dairy cattle, to large roduction. Palatableness is, therejre_ an important factor in feeding, t conduces to thoroughness of digeson and economy of returns. It is sually not present in overripe or fi~ rous plant tissues because of the disppearance at that stage of lent in considerable degree of the ssential oil to which it is attributed, tage of ripeness of a*forage crop deirmines very largely its palatableess and nutritive value