Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4474, 12 October 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

The financial result of a trial shipsent of Hawkes Bay apples to Lon[on is not encouraging. Three cases Fere sent by the Hawkes Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association. The apples ealised 8s 9d per case, but the reigbt charges, etc., brought the acount down until it finally showed a lebit balance of Is for the experiment. ?he freight from Melbourne was greater than from New Zealand. The ! ruit was over ripe on arrival in Lonlon, and no doubt would have been nuch better if sent a month earlier. Few farmers possess purebred nares. It will be a long time before ;hey do; but they can improve the iharacter and quality of their farm iorses by eliminating the inferior nare from the breeding lit. The chicks should have access to iresh, cool water at all times. Small shickens drink a little at a time, and if ten. Therefore, keep a supply of resh water constantly within their -each. Compared .with the weight, the pig jonsumes more food than any other arm animal; he also makes more neat from the food which he eats ban any other animal makes from the same quantity of food. Some idea of the extent of farming anterprises in the Argentine may be gathered from the number of live stock owned by Senor M. Cobo, the well-known breeder of Lincoln sheep rad Shorthorn cattle, and who has >een one of the best customers for British pedigree stock. On his estancia there are 12,000 pedigree Lincoln sheep, about 3000 of which are rams, and 4790 Shorthorn cattle, besides a number of well-bred Jerseys, and a stud of 1150 Yorkshire and Clydesdale horses. Effeminacy in a sire means a lack of tone in muscle and loss, of vigour, and this is very observable in sires lacking impressive powers, while the most noted sires in the history of breeding have been remarkably virile, with the characteristics of masculinity unusually developed. A stallion should haye a determined expression, the hard features, the high crest, and full neck that are evidences of masculinity. With these there should be the active, vigorous temperament, which also indicates virility. The size of the chaff for horses should be about half an inch long ; if too fine it is not sufficiently masticated, and being too quickly swallowed may give rise to indigestion and colic. - '