FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 108, 25 April 1908, Page 6

FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.

It is estimated that at the present time -250,00(1 tons of grain arc stored in South Australia.

As a result of extensive ploughing in North Utago at the present time, thorn is a greater demand for horses than ha« lieeu the ease for the past two years. Alt owner of a steam ploughing plants on the Canterbury Plains states that he lias been ottered I lie contracts tor ploughing 31)0(1 acres of land in various parts of the country. The total quantity of butler exported from Australia in fimii was 7.3.Tii1i.5.321 : >. against, fio.f7/,~>:jljlb in P.ilia; wheat. 18.138,273 (rntals, as agaiiwt 14.788,27 J centals; greasy wool 41.">.:S.')ii..')Slilb, a-, against 380,420,4241b; ami scoured ami washed wool, 04,883,43111,, against oli.77.'),4231b.

Notification is made in lhe New Zealand Gazette that the importation ol swine into Queensland is prohibited for twelve months from October 15 la.sl. The im|urtation of swine into Victoria or West Australia is postponed indefinitely, and only stud swim- are allowed to ('liter Tasmania. The importation of swine is allowed in South Australia. Twenty different methods of preserving eggs have been tested in Germany. Moist of the methods failed: but all eggs preserved with lime, water-glass, or vaseline Were good. Preserving wi' h vaseline is a method not. very Weil known: and it may interest readers In know that eggs thoroughly coated with this ingredient, and stored in a cool place, last well. Rain-washed grass thai lias scarcely any sunshine is not very nutritious, neither is it the best food for a suckling mare.

Stock returns for 1!107 show thaithere is a total of 0,!))2,i1'.l cattle, 21i,llli..)0;i sheep, and 2,lijii,Sl)B pigs in Great Britain.

Although cattle as a whole have in creased ill Ireland, and although dairying is generally regarded as having much improved, the 1,400.231 milch cow,, there last vcar were 2J.358 fewer than in ISSI and P. 14,105 le.-rf than in 185'.). when the record number of 1 .(i!)0,38:) milch cows were returned.

It has been suggested iu Auckland, and the movement ha- been taken up. that a dairy factory secretaries' institute, should be established on lines similar to the institute in the .southern portion of the North Island and in -MeliKiiiruc.

T.vvry fimiiri' lias two furni--Hi'- iv-il iiml tli«' ideal. Tlii- iiU-.il is alwav.- a liltli- belter limn tin- i-i-iil. because wlii'ii llii. real catches up wit.li tin- past ideal llieic i- rivaled a new mill better idittl. Ah soon as u man lias iillniiii'il in l'cality tin- l«—t ideal In- ciiii create, ho ni „to a sltuidslill, iiml when a man ■ri't.s tii that point In: lK"_'iu- tn jro backward. Keep piisliin-j up v»ui- ideal and -llii,- fur il. Heaven i.- mil half as fur from earth as some people would have us believe. 111.- nr <if I.iillmt l!inbalik l,:is lon- l-eni known an lln I .if I In- wizard

~f h.lanv. At a rm'iil It-=-tiir.- at Stanlord rnivor-ity. United SUH-o. 7. - ! dillcr(•m species oir apple- were shown, nil gathered from a single live in .Mr. Ibnhank's garden. While fond of the botanical pranks which appeal ti> the punlie mind. Mr. Burhiink fortunately docs noi neglect tlu' more serious part of the profession, and devoid niiicli time and thought to Uie cultivation of improved plants liki'lv to be of economic value. Itabl.its are very plentiful along tic-Wyndham-Matatira road at present. In those places whew gol'sc hedges have ln'i'ii jilanu-il on, top of the old nod walls 1 tne latter are honeycombed |,y die pest. What must be. considered a good r turn for a llock-master is that of .Mr. .lo.s. Taylor, the noted breeder of English. IA-iei'sU-rs, who this ,-eason has disjK»eJ ol 4liU ranis at an average of u:l :is. and who during the last It months ha- placed '.mil at the same average. Mr. -I. C. -V Urigg. of Ixiugbcadi, scut to the fail-hold freezing Works on .March lith :iSlii> lambs, which is a record for a fiirmcrti' lot at these works.

Already 07,4311 sucks of oat* liave passed over the, Southland railways, or IIIIHI 11101'e than ,for the eonvspondin_' season of last war.

The rabbit season has again arrived, and some big tallies are being secured by trappers. The other day -Mr. l/ui Jbtuek, who is working 115 traps, caught, the line total of 155 rabbits. The. prices given by buyers are satisfactory, and the rabbits are very numerous, -o that trappem should have a successful season.—Orepuki Guardian. Says the Wiuton Record (Utago):A very fine crop of barley growing close to King's Siding has given rise to van'on. estimates as to yield, all recognising it as an exceptionally Heavy crop. We ascertained from .Mr'. Mi-liae. who thrcWied it last. week, thai the exact, vield was 25'/. sacks, or aliout 102 bushids to the acre. This is the heaviest \icld we have heard 0,. and think tint it not. a record for the Dominion it must be very nearly so.- The Western District contains 'farmers up-U'.-datc. [and one of tin,, class showed some id' his slower-going neighbors a good point at the Wallace ram and ewe fair on Wcducsdav. lie had -ome Kngli.lt I tester rams forward, but they were a. drug ill the market, .selling only after ■hard work on the part of the auctioneer at half a guinea. llonnuvs were what were required, and a little while afterwards these rams were labelled as Horn ncyis and sold readily at priics unite in keeping wall the vendor'* ideas. The A-hhtiiton County Coined is pr •- paving mm bushels of poi-i.nrd whc ; ii with a view to oomnal ill" the small bird-' pc-t. It was -(aled that neigh boring council- were not cxerei-ing „•• much care as I h.- A-.iburlnli Council in ,|.-alillg with the (rouble, and it »-J- dieided thai represent at i v.- "I the (ier.iblille ami Scluui CuUlltv Councils should l-e a-ked I" |oin 111 col,ierc„,-o will. I lie A-hhurl.iii rouneil. with a vew to hnvin.; a uniform charge levied for the purpose of dealing with the small birds'