FARMING NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 June 1913, Page 7

FARMING NOTES

The care of the legs of horses is of great importance. They are subjected to strains, caked with mud, soaked with water, or covered with dust all day.

For whatever purpose the farmer produces milk, care should be taken to keep it s bacterial'content as low as possible. Thus may be effected by observing strict cleanliness in connection with the cows, byres, milking, and utensils employed.

After dairy utensils have been thoroughly washed they should be steamed or* swilled out with boiling water. The natural enemies of bacteria are intense heat or cold and sunshine. Cbemcals destroy bacteria or render them inactive, but at the same time unfit the milk for human consumption.

To what extent is fresh air an antidote to tuberculosis? Some Canadian experiments indicate that calves reared on tuberculous coivs to the extent of 4.0 per cent, contract the disease under these conditions. ft is left to conjecture what would be the percentage under house-rearing.

In order to make prime butter of uniform quality the cream should bo properly ripened. If there is any difficulty experienced in ripening tho cream naturally some pure culture starter had better be procured and added to the cream. Every care and attention should he given to the ripening of cream for butter-making.

Potito-growing by the aid of electricity is scientifically interesting. Tho trie of electricity in the growth of crops has not yet attained to the position of a practical prohlo-n. Konuexperiments carried out in Dumfriesshire show that in addition to being ready for lifting earlier than Usual, the increased weight per acre varied from 13e\vt to two tons lewt.

Tho employment ol' women on the land is not so common in Knglard a* ill other countries. Market gardeners prnh;rb!y find more employment for female labour than any other class of cultivator. Abroad, the heavy and mostly cheap work i jS done by women. It is through their agency that German fanners are able to grow sugar beet more cheaply than we could.

Running the flock on the wheat in ■spring is not so common a practice as it used to lie. .. It i s ;in advantage when the voting plant has run forward too far, and may suffer a check unless eaten down and the earth consolidated. Not a little of the advan-t-.w is derived from the packing which the land receives from the •sheep's hoofs.

A'ictorians are fueling that subterranean clover is one of the best introduced fodder grasses. Its selfseeding and spreading habits are remark .ible. It makes a great quantity of i'oliago, extends its runners from three to four feet in all directions, and on the underside of every spray one seed burrows into the ground. Though some authorities say that clover ha s p'oor feeding qualities, this is not the experience of many Victorians.

In Westland. Holland, the day labourer gets '2s (id per day. and in harvest season (5s 8d per day. Vegetables 'sold i» Holland'in the afternoon are placed on the London luncheon tables by noon the next day. .Special cabbage trains are run in Germany during the season, whilst passenger trains are often shunted to allow egg trains, with their perishable produce, to pass.