FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 33, 29 January 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

VACIS X\l> *lL.liltS lull lr'AlUiCl>->. Tiiii coal ul producing good and bad ClOJto IS BUOUt HjU.li.

OuiACan l« IUIU.IUg lies 11l Wolklllg your uud lu the greatest [ir..ni. mere is an oid saying luai tuc :.u----luei •» tut must muepcuuem ■•[ in, u.

mull U huice becomes lllglltilied ii 1* a mistake lu Use tne uian uu limi m viuuioy luian language.

lu, 1 latuier way taiy the [iuiji--'-Jor MUh.li be u«3 bo uud, and ?uii ue IJUUU it> autecaaiul tta nu UeigllltuUls. It la th« nunlegc ul the lainie. ,u luiun that bia luture in inuie w ,u~ uvtu iuudl than 15 the lot ul moH oih,i men.

llicre u no belter way lo =ave of liic original value ul lanuy.ud 1,1.111 lire inan lo haul 11 uut irom the yard to the lield every day. ball tb*t doea uut dfcoulve readiiv. or thai contains too uiueh lime 01 otli.'i ulijeetiuiuble matter, ahuuld not be ui outlet-nuking. lue endiesa muoibialiuu.-, ol the de tail* ui Kucwasiul Jarui i>iaeliee ollei aiiijik acoue lor everyone to dev.-loi. aiuug tneir own apecial Hue. v.i.en people are better educated ou dairy inaileru they «iu not need u uiauy law j lor tneir direction, ili.-y wm be able to direct ibeuiaelves.

lue mure varietieu o» grain are improved Ihe mure plant mod ihey will draw uut ol lue sou, and Ihe greater iUie nee-esaity lor let-ding ihe laud. What i» reported as a record cargo of iroziu meat recently arrived in tugunu from Argentina. 11 consisted oi WW tons ot oeei and inuuou aud IZU tons 01 frozen butter.

The horee la an herbivorous animal, therefore, when stabled, he is gem-rally kept on dry gram, hay, ami other liii. primiukr, and is subject lu many di= earn* unless guardeu uy prudent'management. fue best iheuee made in Switzerland i< usually exported, and is seldom lu be bad even in the laiuous hotels oi that country-.

What is probably a shearing record for iionaro (New South Waive) w.iput up at Delegate Station one day lluseaauu, when eight shearers, including two learner*, abort Ills merino sheep. 'ihe principal tallies were: S. 0. Uiugley, IST; It. Holiiugworth, lii; J. White, 1(3; E. Abererowuic, 107. The time worked wan ihrs. oiuiu.

Some farmers in the (jeraldine district disposed of their acai-on's oats some tuue ago wneu the crops were still green, aud it wuuld appear that in selling them a 2a W a bushel fur delivery when ripe.. they did a good stroke ut business, as this price is nut now übtuinable tor new oats.

A correspondent asked the Press the date of the arrival of the lirsl reaper and binder in Canterbury, and that journal replies:—" We believe that the Ural trial ut an American reaper and binder, which probably approximated pretty closely lo the first uiacainr, took pla.c at Ki<xartou on January S, 1577, the _maclime_ being a Walter A. tVood.' : Tu only one department (says Country life) las the tugli.-h farmer got m from, of ail rivals, and that is the one. as ft * happlus, that is leant protila'iie W tint ntW? tie could, at his best, grow autre wheat tu the acre than any other cultivator in the world, but this haceased to ue his main crop, and ther are not many other departments m which he stands first.

- IB several European cities milk is lit Ural through sand. By this process an dirt is removed, the number of bacteria is reduced one-third, and the quality of mucous and slimy matter is greatly lessened, while the loss of fat in new milk is only alight. The filter consists if large cylindrical vessels, divided by horizontal perforated diaphragms into tivo superposed compartment, of which the middle three are filled with fine, clean sand, sifted into three sizes, the coarsest being placed in the lowest and the finest in the topmost of the three compartments. The milk enters the lowest coinparhkent through a pipe under gravitation pressure, and, after having traversed the layers of sand from below Seward, is carried by an overflow to a cooler fed with ice-water, whence it passes into a cistern, from which it is drawn direct into locked caw for distribution.

One of the greatest sources of contamination in factory nutter conies from impure wash water. A start was made last week in South Canterbury with harvesting operation.-, one or two good-looKing crops having been cut in the Waitolu district.

Killing operations for the season started at the Timaru lreeling works on Friday of last week.

A singular fact is mentioned by -.he "Kotorua Times.'' A resident of Kot«nu, who is this season alleged lo have used blignt-prooi seed, finds that lis crop oi potatoes is diseased, whereas ;h c Kcv. C. A. Xisdall, who planted in tinground which was badly blighted last year, and used as manure a compost -f rotten blighted potatoes, is digging up a splendid lot of tubers, free from disease.

Mr. Sieve Borehaui writes concerning Otago last week: "Men at present cagaged un the sheep /station* shearing, etc., may look forward to a good bartest, as the crops thruugliout the North and South Otago and Southland districts are looking splendid at, the present time, anil with a few moderate showers of ram Will fill out and give a good yield. Thewage, for harvesting, unless the scarcitv of meu interferes will be the sanie s* hut year—thai is, from lOd per houi in the Soulh to Is per hour iu the North Otago district for stookers and men leading iuj stackers from is to Is 2d; men driving binders from £1 10s to £3 per week, with tucker in all cases. Harvesting will start about the first of February, and be general about the 10th. in ue Ipper Clutha district harvesting has already commenced, Mr. Kane, of the Luggate, having cut a large field of oats. I noticed some magnificent crops of wheat on the llawea Flat. One crop near the lake will certainly thresh ■ot less than 60 bushel, per acre. Altogether harvesters may safely calculation the certainty of baring a good, long. and profitable harvest.' There is a good deal of trouble in the Loudon meat market, and changes are evidently close at hand, »ays - Drov «" in the "Otago Witness." 1 havelong looked upon our method* of distribution as obsolete, and detrimental to the future of the trade, though all .lie great authorities of the meat trade in New Zealand and the freezing companies have said again anil again that thy were aliout perfect. 1 will have something to say on the matter shortly. It is what a fanner doe* not kn ,w about his cows that causes loss and trouble.

There will always he a great distantbetween the beet and the worst cow iu the herd.

We CClntha Free I'ress.") arc informed that some Hilleud grower- have been offered 2s 9d a bushel for oats for March delivery. It is probable, however, that this price is for small lines >f seed oats-. The price s»-<ed i, abmt equivalent to that now ruling in Dunediu, which can hardly be expected :o hold good after harvest.