FARM NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 75, 18 March 1908, Page 4

FARM NOTES.

•'What i- good tillage' that!'' "To plough.'' 'What is the second!" •■ Xo plough.'' "The third.'' 'To manure." Sonie (in-ek inscriptions have been found which, ii is ■-aid. will throw light on the subject of laud tenure in the year 1333 B.C.

In Europe the importance of exercising the bull i- iccogni-cd. and in several countries they are li-cd as beasts jf burden, frequently doing the work of a hor-e.

To allow a leant to -laud alone in the field attached to a plough or harrow is a -lire way to court trouble. Loosen the chain- if \mi leave the team. There i- a brj' ib'iiiaiul in the Ka-t for tiun . . -icli a- pea-, car-

rots, ami c.i .;_.-. which are exported by Holland, (ieituany. and Creat liritaii. The boy who is never given an interest in any way is apt to grow tired of farm life and long for a work where be can see thai he is earning something for himself. A sire is a nio-t valuable asset, and a

>ull, according to the old saying, is half the herd.

No man ulto keeps cow- for the money there i- in it i- -o rich that lie •an afford lo keep poor one-.

Any fool can de-troy a tree, but it takes Mother Nature a century'or more to make one. Land in Holland suitable for bulb culture i, worth from C4OO to £00(1 per acre. The weight of new hay depends " good deal on whether it- has lieen put in stack or loo=ely into a shed. For average purpose one ton of hay will occtioy 11 cubic yards in the shed and 10 in the stack.

One reason for the great amount of poor dairy butter on the market is the fact that the churning is not done when it should Ik'.

Experience is the bc-t teacher in any occupation, and decidedly so as regards dairying. Hay nude from oats when in the milk stage makes an excellent feed for dairy cattle. 1 Despite the dry season, the bee industry in ALuieitoii is in a thriving condition. It is anticipated that the quantity of honey exported this season •Will be iu excess of that of previous years* The Belfast (Canterbury) freezing

works have just completed their quarter of a century's work. Up to January there had been put through these works U,049,732 sheep and lambs, 16? M cattle and 52,248 pigs. The horse that is educated to go without winkers is much the .safer horse. It is not what the horse sees usually that he stares at, but that which he imagines he hears or sees. Bad eyesight is the cause of shying very often, or merely getting a glimpse of things which* startle him, when if he could se e them he would not think of getting scared.

It has been found that Still), of sheep manure is equal as a fertiliser to 1001b. u£ ordinary lariuyard inauure, being richer in nitrogenous substances than tliat of tlie cow or horse, ranking next in ammonia and richer iu the phosphates than guano or the dumping- of fowls. A crop of Dun uts at the Lincoln Agricultural College which was threshed lately, gave a return of 7- bushels per acre. A paddock of Bordier wheat gave a return of 51 bushels per acre, the grain being of exceptionally good quality. The Canterbury Sab-yards Company I (Addington market) report the number I of stock put through the yards for the year as follows:—Sheep I including | lamb-) U'73,221, pig* 25,110. cattle 27,078.

Farmers in the Shannon district appreciate the cash that can lie made in the pig industry, aud have commenced to breed and rear pigs on a much larger scale than hitherto.

As demonstrating the systematic manner in which the Ashburton County Council is combating the small bird nuisance, it may be mentioned that since November, 1007, it has purchased no fewer than 304.093 eggs aud heads, at a cost of 2s per 100. A half-bred Jersey con, the properly of Mr. C. Rumbel, of Sali-bury, N.-> South Wales, is stated to have given the remarkable te-t of 5.4 per cent, of butter-fat.

One of the best thre-hiug results heard of for some time (says the Timaru Herald i was recently accomplished on M-. George Talbot's farm. King-down, when Mr. .lames l.ieigs threshing mill in eleven consecutive day- put through 12J0O bushel, of wheal and just over W.HJO bushel- of oats. Ihe grain was threshed from the stuok- a feature which adds additional credit to M,\ Greig's employee-. Mr. Talljot has always good fortune with hi- crops, and this year's yields are very good, a paddock of 120 acres of Tuscan wheit threshing .3) biishe!- to the acre. He also had a 40-acrc paddock of Danish oats which yielded 110 bu-hel-.

The Clntba leader reports that the Greenfield settler- have had another good year, and one hears ou all bands of the tine crops all over the settlement. One of the largest lines of lambs from one farmer sent into the Fairlield Freezing Works since their establishment was slaughtered at the works the other day for Mr. J. C. X. Grigg, of Longbeacii. The line comprised 3802 lambs, which were in exceptionally good condition. showing that the swampy land on which they were fattened lias been well suited by the season. Last year a line of 3400 lambs wa- killed for Mr. I. 11. Mnirhead, and that was the previous record line at Fairfield.

Cocksfoot is advancing in price by leaps' and bound-, writes the Akaroa correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. Formerly the rise was marked .11' eighths or sixteenths of a penny, and the question of the buyer paying freight or not. Now the advance is quoted in straight-out pennies. Last week two good pane), were -old for 7d. and holders are asking Sd and in some cases 9d.