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FARM AND DAIRY.

.'! THE FIELD CARROT. !An English farmer says: —The -." is sadly neglected as a field crop i many parts of these counties, and, ha' j ing grown it largely for many year I says that it deserves more attentio , ! from the British stock farmer. It is certainly more expensive to grow than j turnips or mangolds, but when obtained is far more valuable. The best kind is | the While Belgian, which is a heavy ■ cropper, and will produce M tons per acre; it is a splendid root, for dairy cows in winter, especially where butter is made, to which it imparts both color and fine flavor. The ground intended for them should he well manured with farmyard dung in the autumn, and plouclied to a fair depth: tin- drills should he about 14in apart, and the plants thinned to Bin between them in the rows. jan operation which costs about £1 per acre, as hand work is necessary. A little superphosphate should be drilled with the seed, and it is a good plan to add a little barley, which quickly indicates tlie rows and enables hoeing to be done much sooner. I used to rub the j seed well before sowing to make it run j more freely and evenly from the drill; and also soaked half the seed and then mixed it with the dry portion, the ob- ■ ject being to have two chances instead 1 of one with the weather as regards ger- | mination, and in this way always secured a good plant. In securing the crop it is best to use a fork, so as to raise the roots without breaking. We always allowed the farm horses a share of the carrots, grating them and mixing with their chop, which made a splendid feed for them. COW FODDERS. A successful dairy farmer, who has! had a wide experience in the use of the various feeds, has compiled a list in ; connection with which he adds the fol-j lowing notes:— I "Grasses, whether natural or cultivat-1 ed, we put up high on the list, both as j regards yield of milk and butter. Lucerne hay is an ideal food for cows.! Clover and sanfoin are good. Vetches ''• as green fodder or hay, unless fed with i a large proportion of other stuffs, in-1 | fluences the milk yield unfavorably. Pea' fodder gives the butter an agreeable | flavor. Mangels have deservedly a good i reputation. .Supplemented by concentrated feeding stuffs, they can be fed in large quantities without affecting the flavor of milk or butter. fTurnips are not such a safe food as mangels, and if fed in quantity produce a disagreeable flavor in milk and butter. This disad- i vantage is partly avoided if the roots' are given to the cows just after they have been milked. If the roots are stemmed it somewhat obviates the bad flavor. Carrots should not be given in large quantities, as they affect the taste and smell of the milk. Rye is good for the quality of the butter, mixed with other suitable feeding stuffs, and given at the rate of 21b to 31b per head as meal. Larger quantities make the butter hard and dry. Barley is one of the best feeding stuffs, both' as regards quantity and quality of the milk. The same may be said of crushed oats, but when given too largely the butter is apt to be soft. Maize meal is a useful , food, but to be given sparingly, as it j produces a soft butter, just as with pigs ; it produces soft fat. Bran is always' j good, but can be overdone in quantij ties. Linseed cake and meal arc useful; j foods. A quantity of 21b per head per ', day is suitable for milking cows. If j more is given, the butter may be hard. Palm nut cake is a concentrated food i with a pleasant flavor. Tt is excellent j food for cows fed at the rate of llli j to 21b a day in conjunction with maize i or rape cake. Cottonseed cake, decorticated, produces a butter of firm consistency and good taste. Quantity should be limited to about 21b per day. It is best crushed fine or supplied as meal."

Writing to a Now Plymouth friend a settler in the Northern Territory says:—"We are trying to establish the dairying industry here, and started oft' with bringing 500 cows from Queensland. The. war delayed shipment, and tho cows had five week's' pretty hard doing before they were shipped, which landed them hero worse than even some of your | Taranaki sale yards used in hold.'ami that is saying a good deal. However,! they are recovering now, but as this !■ 500 represents the only herd in the | Territory at present. I do not think Taranaki need get into a panic about I its new rival. You seem to have been I having an amazingly good season, and oven in spite of the war, are. going to I have a good year's exports." b

The record price of 20.} per To was obtained for a bale of scoured combings at tile Napier wool sales last week. During the past tliree and Company, through their branches at Masterton, Carterton and Martinborough, liave sent 10,000 lambs to buyers in tin* Mnnawatu district, mainly in Fcilding and Palmerskm North. In one fr.it in the Wairoa. district, there are nearly .10.000 acres of as for-' tile land as one can find in the Dominion, (says the. Auckland Herald). Considering its condition, it is turning off as much butter-fat and beef per acre as tin- finest parts of Taranaki, but it is not up to its full productive stage yet. That will lie reached when all the old stumps and swamp rubbish are cleared away and every farm carries its quota of maize and similar fodders for summer feed. The Tiaupo Plats are only a small portion of the alluvial lands built up by the action of the tides and the debris brought down by the. Northern Wairoa liiver. Then' are estimated to be 130,000 acres of low-ly-ing alluvial country, all of which is suitabb' for dairying, stock-fattening, and other branches of farming, and. besides the flat country, there is a very large area of easy hill country which is proving itself very productive. At the time of my first visit to tile district it would have been very hard to convince anyone in Auckland and more than half-a-dozen people in the "Wairoa itself that there was any prospect of profitably fanning any of the lands in this district. The Northern Wairoa Dairy Company was considered foredoomed to failure, and it would never have been started if it had not been for the enthusiasm of a very few men. vvlio could see further than their neighbors. Nothing will give a better idea 'of the progress of dairying in this particular district than the history of this company. For the season ending May 31. ltHi:!, if. manufactured 07"', ions of butter and paid to its -npplh-rs Sd per lb for butter-fat. During the following three years the eoinpanv :>aid below Sd per Mi' for butter-fat. and it was not until the sixth year that the price rose to !).]. During the 1014 season it manufactured tons of butter and paid ]-2']i\ per 10 for butter-fat. showing an increase in quantity of over SOO per cent, and in value of over .10 ]tvr cent. The ' total amount paid f,-, suppliers in 1003 was £580(1: in l!Ht it was .C01.n.10. and it can be truly said that dairying in the Northern Wairoa lias only just commenced.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 3

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FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 3

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