FARM AND DAIRY.
kaupokonui herd testing ASSOCIAT-lOS. n Th® following i s a summary for tl'.o 30-day period ended December 28, 1918;
The average Association cow gave 95511)3 milk, 4.3 test, 41.331bs fat. The highest individual cow gave 15301bs milk, 4.9 test, 74.981bs fat The lowest individual cow gave 3751bs milk, 3.5 test, 13.121ib 3 fat.
One useful effect of the war has been to stimulate agricultural production in the Hotter Country. The shortage of food that became critical when importation became difficult has, no doubt, provided a salutary and permanent lesson, and it may be expected that with the return of the troops a gTeat many more men than formerly will secure employed on the land. Last season, despite the shortage of labor, the acreage in wheat was about twenty-five per cent above the pre-war average, and luckily the season was favorable. A preliminary return issued by the Board of Agriculture last November showed that the acreage under wheat in 1918 in England and Wales was 2,550,706 acres, as compared with 1,918,485 acres in 1317. The yield per acre of all the corn crops was aibove the average, and, with the single exception of a small area of beans, tho total production was also greater; while all were better, whether judged by the yield from an acre or by total production, than in 1317. The yield of wheat was estimated at thirty-throe bushels per acre (two bushels above the average), and the total production 10,534,000 quaiters, which exceeds tho previous year's total by three and onethird million quarters. A certain proportion of the wheat had, however, been damaged. Barley yielded 32 and two-fifth bushels per acre, or half a 'bushel more than the average; the total production of over sis million quarters being the largest since 1914. The production of oats was almost two million quarters mor3 than the previous highest on record (1917), and amounted to 14,336,000 quarters. Mixed, or dredge corn, distinguished for the first time, produced an additional 6-20,000 quarters from 130,000 acres. The damage to barley ar.d oats had been considerably more serious and widespread than m the case of wheat. Beans gave twenty-nine and two-fifth bushels to the acre, while peas with twenty-seven and a half bushels, showed the best return of the last ten years. Taking all the five corn crops together, the gross production in England and Wales was no less than eight and a half million quarters, or quite thirty-five per cent more than in 1917 and a great deal more above pre-war yields.
In the absence of business in the Oainaru market (writes a correspondent to the Otago Daily Tiiuil) .the talk is now of the coming harvest and its prospects. The consensus of opinion i 3 that, barring accidents, the harvest will bo the host garnered in North Otago for several years, and a holiday run through the country confirms that impression. The change that has taken place m the appearance of cereal crops in all directions a", a result of the rains that have been experienced since the middle- of November i 3 really remarkable. A couple of months ago the outlook was far from promising, boih wheat and oak being threatened with failure, partial, if not tptal. But there has been a great recovery, and even en the lighter lands and the ponrev soils good yieids aro now confidently anticipated. The area under wheat is somewhat less than that of last year, but the deficiency in area will be fully compensated by a better average of yields, which arc likely to show an improvement of five or six bushels per ocre. Oafo, which hava been fully aj widely sown, will, o:i present appearances, do even better than this, for last year's average wf.o poor, and the incoming yields will, with fe .f exceptions, be good. Potatoes are also looking well, but the area under crop is much below the averj agj oi former years.
ten: best herds. Co\7S. Lbs. milk. Teat Fat. 31 1099 4.8 5307 <J 111!) 4.8 48.52 59 1140 4.1 47.28 27 94-3 , 4.9 40.77 14 1078 4-2 46.33 23 920 4.S 44.74 31 i 1023 4.3 44.51 37 M01 4.3 43.24 90 •m 4.4 43.17 25 947 4.3 42.07 TEN WORST HEEDS 45 851 3.5 80.00 28 77-2 4.2 38.0!) 35 903 4.1 33.55 94 812 4.1 33.75 48 920 3.7 34.80 6 615 5.6 34.94 48 9-20 3.7 3400 55 S8S 4.0 35.57 38 797 4.8 38.64 49 1038 3.8 39.49
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1919, Page 7
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