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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1922, Page 12

The best time to buy a sow is when she has had her first litter. A very good idea may then be formed of the kind of pigs she is going to throw and what sort of mother she is going to make. Warts on the teats of the milk cows are very troublesome. There are various methods of removing warts, and for those situated on the outside of the teat a few applications of calamine ointment usually effect a removal. Tn a lecture in Wellington upon “Milk and its Importance to the Community,” Dr. Hardwicke Smith said he wondered that our butter merchants in English markets did not make more of the XF.et that the butter was made from cows fed on green grass all the year round. ! This meant that the butter contained, more disease-resisting constituents than did butter from cows that were stall I fed. Their milk and butter were a