FARM AND DAIRY.
STRATFORD MODEL DAIRY FARM. Tho liuuiiißOr's report, for the iiorlotl from September 14th to October 12, 192(1, is as follows: Crips —All root crops practically (hushed. Pasture.-Is Inukiiig well and coming away very rapidly. Stoek. —Mfly-sovcu cows are In milk and one more to come in. Quantity of milk for September, 30 453 lbs., teat average 4.1, 4.1, 4.0. Dry Stock.—Remaining on tho place 30 head, including 18 yearlings, three empty cows, one springing,, eleven calves and two bulls. Pigs.—Young pigs on sown ready to wean. Cultivation;. —Itojugl'i paddock jttas been ploughed and Tolled, bottom swede paddock has been ploughed, and the Test of stamps taken out, and the mangolds and second swede paddock Is getting ploughed now. Drinking Trough.—Has teen purchased fot tho eowyard. Cropping ft* Forthcoming season.—Soft Turnips: Three and a half acres of Lincolnshire, Eed and Hardy Green Globe. Swedes: About six acres. Mangolds: Two acres. Carrots: Ono acre. Oats and Vetches, and Oa-.s and Field Peas: About ten acres. Beans and Peas: Tor pigs, about one acre. Cabbages : Half an acre. Ten acres are to be sown down to pasture with 40 lb. seeds per acre. One acre of lucern with a cteck plot of clover and rye grass.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1920, Page 2
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206FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1920, Page 2
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