FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 352, 1 April 1910, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

Sir Rupert Clark'!, of Bolinda Vale, Victoria (flock 40 000'. ha*, Recording to recent advices, obtair«d vm i.orrful prjees for his wool clip this 'oaiti-r on the London market, one shipment of greasy wool fetching up to 3S)d p#' lb and the other up to I 9y g d. Reports are still coming to hand of the failure of the turnip crops in various parts of the Waikato district, owing to the ravages of "Wairarapa disease."] It is feared that the greater proportion of the crops will be destroyed. Xo one can feel sure that the crops now looking j the pink of perfection will not be completely rotten in the course of a few day«. Probably the largest number of black •heep in one mob ever seen in New-Zea-land was yarded at the Morven Hills sale, when 1230 described as mixed ages and sexes were bought in a line by a local settler at 6s each. A milking machine which has been a great success with small farmers in Sweden has ibeen referred to lately in the English press.. It is made there, and can 'be worked by hand, which, of course, is a great advantage in a small farm. Is is suspended by means of two broad straps, one just behind the shoulder and tihe other over the loin of the cow. There is the usual vacuum vessel for holding the milk. Detach-ment-auction, or rather in this case the result, is obtained by compression, the teat being inserted in a cup-like receptacle, one side of which, actuated bv a piston, allows the teat to fill and then presses it, much after the method of the human fingers. All four teats are milked simultaneously, or the valves can be .shut off to allow of milking cows that have lost one or more quarters. The machine strips clean, and can be worked easily by one man.