NOTES AND CLEANING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 117, 25 March 1879, Page 2

NOTES AND CLEANING.

the N.Z. Country Journal.

Reapers and Binders.—There have recently been discharged in Lyttelton 10G0 reapers and binders. The Willard Mudget brought over 2521 packages, comprising 040 machines, and 23'2G boxes of wire. The Alexander McNeil brought 520 machines, and 4650 boxes of wive. These machsnes have been .landed and put together in L'/ttclton, and 'thence despatched to their various destinations. The aim in feeding, now should be to get the stuck into good condition before cold weather, remembering that an animal beginning the winter well is as good as half through it already, Sheep, if fed liberally, and managed carefully, are most profitable, stock, • The hotter we do for them, the better tliey will do for us; badly managed, they are likely to prove a failure. Price of Cattle.—So great i 3 the scarcity of money in Finland, that recently cows were sold at prices equivalent to (is each, and horses at 4s. Price of Farms.—Farms in some parts of Arkansas sell at from three to live cents an acre. An Arkansas paper says that dirt is such a drug in that State, that if a purchaser does not look out they'll smuggle forty or fifty extra acres oil him in making out the deeds. The change of.feed from green to dry should be gradual with all stock ; otherwise, the appetite may fail,, and the ani-' mals lose thereby. Water,—lt is a great mistake to stint animals in water; 70 per cent, of their weight is water. Digestion cannot go on without it. Water is, therefore, food in one sense, and an ample supply should be provided for every animal to drink when inclined.

Naturalised grosses.—A very interesting and valuable collection of naturalised grasses, that is to say, English grasses now becoming wild throughout New Zealand, has been made by Mr M. Murphy, Secretary to the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. They number in all about 40, and arc arranged according to their values from an agricultural point of view. It is intended to add to this collection the indigenous grasses and naturalised wild plants of New Zealand, to bo duly namod; with their peculiarities and characteristics, as indicative of the nature of the soils upon which they grow, fully noted, Cows Eating Wood, Bones; &c.—When cattle eat boiios, leather, wood, Ac., it indicates a lack of phosphate of lime in their food, which they require to supply bone material and wastes of the system, and the lOOlbs or more which every cow requires in a year for her milk. Lack of this in the food creates a morbid appetite, which is enly partially s itistied by kuawing at such objects. Bone Hour may be fed in its grain to each animal at the rato of ; te:ispoonful per day. A good diessing of superphosphate or bone-meal on the upland pastures, will stimulate the growth of such plants as furnish the missim: ingredients. Manure.-—During the month of April last, the Brisbane J,o. al Board of Health received £3O for manure made from nightsoil at the depot. Co-operative Farming.—The National Agricultural Laborer's Union of England has resolved to take a firm of 140 acres in Lincolnshire for co-operative farming, tin capital of £1,500<0 betaken up in £1 shares by the members.

l lie Australian Colonics.—The Scotsman, of September 7,1875, contains an excellent article on flic Australian colonics in which New Zealand is mentioned as being the most sound anil flourishing one of the lot.