FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 322, 8 June 1911, Page 5

FARM AND DAIRY

USEFUL ITEMS. tin hundreds ef cases we have seen one farmer making double and sometimes three or four times the net profit over his neighbor, and both patrons of the same creamery. Sometimes we would find one man getting as much money from a herd half the size of his neighbor. We never knew such an instance where the most successful man was the ignorant, the most careless, and the most indifferent. A great many dairymen have tremendous faith in knowing u little as possible about their business, in reading and studying scarcely any. But, strange to say, our census takers don't ' find the best producing cows among that ■ class of farming, and yet they are rock rooted in the faith that that is the w» to make monev with cows. Queer, isn t ' it?— Hoard's Dairyman. The Dorset Horn Shecpbreeders' Auo> ' ciation of America numbers 241 members ' representing "20 States, besides Canada. A recent issue of the association bulletin ' fives this good advvice: "Don't go into - the breeding of Dorsets in a sort of halfhearted way. If you do, you will haw , experience dearly bought. You eamo% raise hot-house lambs in a cold-storage barn. You must be willing to work at * night if occasion demands."

To reap the most profitable resuK ' from the use of fertilisers the farmer must consider the nature of the soil *fl well as the requirements of the crops he intends to cultivate after application. At the annual meeting of the Ashburton branch of the New Zealaid Farmers' ■ Union four members declined to accept- * the office of chairman, every one of them ,y expressing the opinion that it was no -; good trying to combat against the far- i mers' lack of interest. ■'

If your neighbor seems to succeed bet- .. ter than yon, do not envy him. Emulate him j co-operate with him. "' Canadian wheat lands are being boon- ;- ed, but the long Canadian winters and '<j the destructive frosts are not mentioned. 3 In order to build up a dairy herd it is '■■. important that the dairy farmer should .. know a dairy cow when he sees one. t$ Many a poor horse suffers because .) it cannot chew its food well. Look at * their teeth before you dose them with tf medicine. >\

Some interest was created recently regarding the reported operation of the I American meat trusts in the Argentine, but according to Mr. F. K. Cassells, of -i Buenos Aires, the trust has not gained' \ control of the meat trade, nor is it libel/' ' to do so. One of the large meat-chilling < businesses known as "La Blancha," whicX | was founded by Argentine capital, hai \ been purchased by\ an American firm. ; - "The meat trusts Are\ not feared in the > Argentine,* said Mr. Cassells. "The W- , public is not so socialistic as New %**•;. land, but the people do not like mono-1 polios, and the Americans would havt> 'j to be exceedingly astute to secure control ; of the meat exportation of the Argen- ,.; tine. If there was anything like an American trust established in the cOtUKjj try, the people of the Argentine wottMs immediately subscribe sufficient capital,! to break it down." m Mashes and green food are liable to bfej come stale and sour in a very short tim6jj and in one or other of these condition*!:! if eaten, they arc injurious to the health!! of poultry. jl A fair amount of linseed has beeftl grown in Southland during the s»»£§ summer (says the Southland Times), ar*| several good yields have been reportWfl but easily the best yield of the season itia reported from Mr. John F-wan's MiWffljl farm, near Drummond. From a paddowl of 38 acres he has just throshod 10 sacks of 2001b each to the sample is a nice clean one.