FARMING NOTES
(By "Man on the Land.") Ploughing will not bo completed in the Masterton district for at least a month. The frosts experienced last week will have a good effect, and if si. little fine weather is now experienced, with an occasional shower, tho cereals will come on well.
Several farmers in the neighbourhood of Masterton are preparing plots for agricultural experiments. A lot of useful work has been done by those who have undertaken these experiments; but there is still much that might be done
The opening of another cheese factory in the Masterton district is sin indication that the value of dairying is coining to be realised, even in this conservative part of the Dominion. When a few mora of our large estates sire thrown open, the population of district, as well as its prosperity, will be greatly increased. Dairy farmers should not fail to plant a few acres in maize. This is :si splendid food for cows in the, dry summer months, and considerably increases the supply of milk.
lloports which are coming to hand indicate "that thero will be a splendid lambing this year. Percentages of over a hundred are being freely spoken of. It is computed by a gentleman in a position to glean the necessary information that 1050 more cows will be milked in the Eketaliuna district this season than last year. According to the Eketaliuna paper, a 'number of settlers in that district, wlrff have hitherto been content with sheep fanning alone, are'this season launching out'into-dairying. Included in the number is Mr H. E. Mowbray, of. Hukanui, who has installed a .machine and will milk between 80 and 100 cows. Bis supply will go to Nireaha. Messrs Priest Bros., on the Parkville-Niroaha road, who will supply to Rongokokako anticipate milking up to 100 cows. They also have installed a machine. To take £574 15s fkj off £IOO acres of bush land for butter fat alone is not a- bad record. This, however was neeomolishcd bv Mr G. P. Hansen, of Nireaha, and was the product of 32 cows.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 4 September 1912, Page 6
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346FARMING NOTES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 4 September 1912, Page 6
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