Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4458, 4 September 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

Itc long beea said that the seed mo ipkin is death to the tape* Kn the human system. Recently Ibeen discovered that it is just as lein the case of animals. I sheep and lambs there is no |jte rape, both in palatability and Ement. Lambs will fatten on after weaning without any grain, lure ravenously fond of it. ■ keep young pigs constantly ng, they must be taught to eat mod when with the mother, deig more and more upon it, and sss and less drawing their .food he mother. |e is a constant growing demand ibor-saving devices to cheapen etibn. So the farmer must cony study new ways, and adopt Methods if he wishes to keep st of the times. ictice differs regarding the length ie the litter of pigs should rewith the mother. If the sow is is two litters in the year she ; suckle her first litter for a l exceeding six weeks: e seed of wild oats will sometimes n for several years in the ground The only way to d of them is to cut the crop beP ripen, and let the land go out itionfor a year or so. bn rape is sown in rows, less |an four pounds an acre may be The quantify is, of course, sd by the distance apart frojn >ws. It is found that the-~nght ice between the rows is about dies. pe is sometimes mixed with £ grain as a catch crop. It i a slow growth until the grass t, when it rapidly shoots up. is a cheap and inexpensive >d of growing rape, but the reire not certain. ohemical composition and feeddue rape resembles clover. It is richer than clover in flesh-form-mstituents, and is exceedingly lent. Its water contents are 91 per cent. The nutritive s about 1 to 3.