FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1918, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

NOTES. Real farming is not hiding awav from the country's services. It is doing it. Select a few typical roots from which to grow your own root seed for next season. Many a pig fails through lack 01" lioneforming food. Give them ashes and charcoal. Give the pig a good start before he is farrowed, and keep liim going after lie comes. Do your part and he will do his. Bacon worth 9d per pound in normal times recently sold for "2s Cd per pound in Great Britain. The feeder, milker, retailer, in fact all who are called upon to handle nature's 'greatest human food—milk—should practice cleanliness at all times. If the clippers are run over the cow's thighs and flanks, less dirt will adhere to its body, thus reducing the chance for contamination of the milk. The four predominating pure breeds in Argentina are Shorthorns among cattle, Percliierons among horses, tancolns among sheep, and Berkshires among pigs. A potato grower, who used kelp tor manure this year has just dug his crop, and he estimates it to be at least a ton to the acre better than he has ever grown when using fertiliser or stable manures. There is an impression that different members of the melon and cucumber family cross, and should therefore not be planted clo?e to each other. It is now definitely known that such crossing does not occur.

LABOR AND WHEAT. . fl n English oxnert dealing with the difl'everce between English mul American me'hods of wheat, growing says: This <ii Terence can host be illustrated if I s've some examples within ray own knrwledgo. For instance, our standard rie'd of wheat is 32 bushels per aerie; It is usual for harvesting to be carried tit the rate of one man to every 25 ww; ibis means that every man pro-. 'I. 1 ees 100 ounrlors of wheat. Now, I know of a farm in California where 2000 acres of wheat are grown, and the whole is handled by four men witli the help i f a SO h.n. engine and the necessary tackle. This is 500 acres-to each man, and assuming that !lie crop is 20 busliels of-i acre —a common yield "out west''— then each man ia handling over 1200 quarters of wheat, or 12 times as much as lie does in England. Even assuming that the yield out there is only 12 buslels per acVe, and that a man is only bitif his time during the year at wheat work in England, it means that he only produces a fourth of what he would be expected to do out there. The same