Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

FARMING TOPICS.

Work For Pig Husbandry.

Mr C. P. McMeehan, late of Massey Agricultural College, who went Home to further his knowledge of genetics (the science of breeding), is now stationed at Cambridge University. During the past two years, while at Massey College, Mr McMeehan’s work on pig husbandry earned him a considerable reputation.

A scientific statement by Sir Albert Howard, one of the leading agricultural scientists in England, bears out the truth that balanced manuring (returning to the land the mineral matter extracted from it) and proper pasture management is the best way to have healthy stock and to fight disease. Indigestion is at the root of half our stock troubles, and yet we allow cattle at one time of the year to gorge themselves on rich succulent grass and at another time expect them to produce well on a sole diet of dry fibrous grass or hay.

Bunk! In a recent article I came across a passage advocating the necessity of lime for stock, especially dairy cows, states an Auckland writer. That advice was sound. There v.>as made, however, the suggestion that benefit to stock could be obtained by putting lime in their drinking water. This is the bunk! It is a fallacy that any material benefit can be given stock by this practice. The quantity of lime that dissolves’ in the water is inftnitesmal.

The methods of pig-recording, developed by the Manawatu Pig Recording Club, have attracted attention at Home. Cambridge has asked for details of the bacon class for recorded pigs. This indicates’ that New Zealand methods are on practical and advanced lines.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TCP19370215.2.76

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 8

Word count
Tapeke kupu
267

FARMING TOPICS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 8

FARMING TOPICS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 8

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert