FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1920, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

STRATFORD MODEL DAIRY FARM. FARMING REPORT, 2nd March, 1920. Pastures.—Feed is still very plentiful, there being good growth throughout the month. Soft Turnips.*—Very little progress has been made with the feeding out of these owing to the abundance of grass. Hay.—There is still a small quantity on the ground in field 10 and unless the weather takes up at once it will be lost. Already it is considerably damaged. Field 10.—This will require ploughing at once and sowing down in oats. Herd.—The returns for February period are approximately the same as for January, viz., 26.80 against 26.53. SPECIAL ENSILAGE CROP RBPORT, Ist MARCH, 1820. The cutting of these crops was started on February 10. The first day the stack was put up to 6 feet. On the 11th it was raised to 12ft Gin- No work was done on the 13th the stack had receded to 9ft, temperature 120. On this date more material was added to the stack and it was raised to 16feet. No work was done on the 14th and loth, and on the morning of the 16th the stack had receded to 10ft, temperature 140. Material was added and the stack raised to 17ft 6in. Bad weather setting in no work was done until the 20th, when the stack had receded to lift with a temperature of 130. More material was added until the stack was again 17ft 6in high. On the 21st it was weighted with earth from 12 to 15 inches deep. Altogether Si acres was put in which weighed approximately 96 tons. The remainder of the oats and tares (1%. acres) was cut for hay. The following are the green weights of the different mixtures, crops sown October 21, 1919. Rye corn, 2 bushels per acre, 8 tons: per acre; Robs wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel per acre, 13£ tons; Algerian oats, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, 11J tons; Algerian oats', 2 bushels, partridge peas 1 bushel, 11% tons; Algerian oats, 2 bushels, tares % bushel, 9 tonsCrops sown November 11, 1919:—Bobs wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel per acre, 11J tons per acre; John Brown wheat, 2 bushels, tare* t bushel, 13J tons: Purple Straw TuSan wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, IS" tons; Currawa wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, 113 tons; Marquis wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, 11'/, tons; Major wheat, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, Hi tons; Capo barley, 3 bushels, tares l"bushel, 10J tons; Algerian oats, 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel, 125 tons; Algerian oats, 2 bushels, Okoia peas 1 bushel, 12% tons; Algerian oats 2 bushels, early Minto peas 1 bushel, 12% tons; Ruakura oats 2 bushels, tares 1 bushel per acre; Hi tons.