FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 379, 3 May 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

The man who -wants mod potatoes from the ground must put good seed in. It is impossible to feed all cows out of the same spoon; see that tile ration fits the cow. Official figures .live the value of all the crops of the United States for 1009 at £1.700,800,00(1, an iiu-rev.se of £201,000,000 on the preceding .Tear. In 100!) the value represented liv all the products of Canada was £109,306.000. an increase of £20.000,000 on the figures for 1008. The cow which is often in want of medicining is not likely to be of much comfort to the dairyman looking for results in the milk-can. • In Germany the cow population works out at the rate of one to every five humans; in England the rate is half a cow to every five human beings. Great Britain is awakening to the folly of sending £20,000,000 a year out of the country to buy iiacon, which can be so easily grown at home. Figures show the inability of the British farmer of the present day to feed his own people, and the foreigner is getting a big grip on the Home market. If you have to set your milk do so immediately after it is Idrawn and strained. There should be a skimming, •with results, about three times in the 24 hours.

The progeny of noted cows does not, as a rule come into tlie market. To g6t one of these you will have to see the breeder, and this is the best way to get the best of the stock. Waiting- fo* opportunities has never taken any man much farther than the I door of the benevolent asylum. Get in early where there seems to be room for tou, and make your oportunity. The result of scientific cow yield testin.<r in Denmark has been tire doubling of the milk yield in less 'than 30 years. The Dutch c-ow averages 1790 gallons of milk in the year. It will pay every man who sells any product of the farm to grade his goods; it is no use putting the big apples and potatoes on top these days; the buyer is down to that old-time trick. Do not be afraid to work the brood mare; she will be all the better lor it, and so will the foal. But do not overwork her, and do not give her any heavy back burden or girth pressure in the last couple of months.

F.verv time a man holds his crop beyond the price at which he can make a decent profit he is taking a risk which belongs to the speculator and is ouite outside the business of the agriculturalist. Ko farmer has made a big success of himself as a speculator.

Poultry farming is one of the developments of which the Russian is making the most liberal showing of late years. In the first half of 1000 there -were exported over 100.000,000 dozen egcrs. Do not be disappointed if, after all the trouble you have taken to mate your best cow well and suitably, the calf doe? not turn out a prize-winner. It is r.r't fair to expect a winner every time. A good record is that recently -mil; up in the United States by the two,-year-old fiuernsev heifer,. Queen Resent IV.. of 553.fi?11) butter-fat in the year. These figures have not been readied In* anv heifer of her age of any breed in America.