Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4481, 28 October 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

dual merit, and good backbireeiding, ’ ' ‘ ‘ ;

Sour milk hae lost only the butter* t it once contained. It stitticon ina all the flesh and muscle-produc-g elements it-ever did, . Farm horses should be broken in ; three years old, and given light ork first.

The 1 principal causes of sore ouhlers are over* work, over-feeding icf ill-fitting collars.

At least half-an hour should be ven the hoise after it has eaten its its before putting it to work.

The dri'er the food the greater the ffopii-ty.it has in passing out of the >macb.

Though they cannot be fooled into king a plough for a cultivator, yet ousands of farmers will spend their tes’ iti trying to make cows of beefeeding to dairy work. ( Tho best and wisest pl>m is to ?igh every cow’s milk at every milkg, as the daily records are an ajd id a stimulus to better feeding, milk* g and general care; but weighing ree days a month is much better an not keeping records at all. A farmer, who has recently made actical experiments with seed potass s-ates a result'which maybe ken as an argument in favour of an 1 method. He planted whole seeds id cut seeds at the same time, and ere was a remarkable difference in o crops. The whole seed crop was or, and the tubers were small, while o other crop was large and the tubers >re fine specimens. This is an exriment that every potato grower ould try for himself. It must be recognised that farmrd manure is the best at the dissal of the farmer, and that it should produced under the most favour!o conditions possible, A number of farmers in the Master*

i district have been using coni* unded potato manures this season th disastrous results, for the simple ison that they have been putting d potatoes right into the manure, or b manure directly on to the potatoes. io manure contains a mixture of rogen, phosphates and potash, and len brought into direct contact with ) tuber is disastrous to its skin, o manure should be mixed with the 1 prior to the setting of the iatoes.

[t has served you well for many years iv. We don’t need to tell you its bd qualities— but egg 3 are getting ;aper. and you have no Sharland’s ia Brand Egg Preservative by you. n’t forget it until eggs have gone tip fin. At all stores. See that the full uae is on the label.