FABR AMD DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 310, 7 January 1908, Page 4

FABR AMD DAIRY.

Money is necessary in running a farm, and «o is manhood. The potato blight is reported to be much in evidence in the Stratford district. There are about half a million families in RoumAnia occupying holdings averaging 10 acres. You can put Bpirit into any job by learning to master it, and do it better than anyone else. It i: said that Xew York alone consumes from 60,000 to 70,000 carcases of lamb every week in the year. A farmer at Morven (says the Xorth Otago Times) is digging potatoes just now which are running 14 tons to the acre. It ba9 been decided to hold an agricultural show in Fort Jameson in June, this being the first effort of the kind in north-eastern Rhodesia.

The exports of dried fruits from Victori* are rapidly increasing, the total quantity sent away since the beginning of April beii£ 19,217 wses. A gra/ier m tlie fiandagai district, Sew South Walfcs. estimates his loss in foddrr outlay and loss of sheep at £250 per week on account of the want of rain in that district. The largest farm in the world is in tjouiiUna. It cover* a million and a-half acres. On it are .10 miles of railway and; .100 mile* of navigable water, on which ply three rteamlioat*. It require* a considerable amount of intellectual development in the farmer to keep abreast of the times, understand the progress that is being made, and avoid becoming a hack number. All the moat real and solid enjoyment* of life can lie had on the farm. The beat and tafest things are not costly. Those who sigh for other advantages do not half develop those already within reach on the farm. I 1 I ( \ II

Air must be supplied to all plants, even to those that grow in the water. Dry land plants cannot take their air fast enough through soil water. The surface of the soil must be loose enough to permit the continued entrance of air. There is lifelong satisfaction of eeling that you are making progress from year to year: that next season you will make the poorer part of your land a step nearer to tln liest; that you will weed out the lea-t profitable of your live stock anil replace them with something liet»pr than your best; that after you hive neathem! <me had year you will U> in a stronger position to meet another.

In consequence pf the reports of some fraudulent practices in the use of tuberculin test in case of pure-bred cattle shipped from Or eat Britain fc> the Argentine Republic, the quarantine station at Buenos Ay res. heretofore run by a private company, will lie taken over by the Government, and a proposal is made that a quarantine station he established, probably near Liverpool, England, to Ik l controlled by the council of the Shorthorn Society, so as to exclude the possibility of " doctoring " or " faking " in the future.

There is lifelong satisfaction in feelsocial spirit than on the farm. Those who commune with Nature, studying her various moods, learning much of her wonderful workings, and thus recognising* the creating and controlling hand j which holds the universa. should aspire to nobler achievements than mere getting of wealth. There is no better place for a social gathering of any kind than in the country, for whatever the occasion which brings together the members of a rural community. Hiere is an absence of formality and an air of goodfellowship which always ensures a good time.