NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1130, 20 July 1882, Page 3

NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

. (PromtheN.Z. Country Journal). It is estimated that the amount of injury done by insects in the United Stateß i« 200,000,000 dols. The good they do is another question, to which no answer i 6 given, and cannot be given in figures, A horse will eat 20 lbs. of hay, and .6 quarts'of grain a day, and a largo horso will consume one-fourth more than that. Much depends on the vigour of the hoise. Calves should have a good run of crass. The pushing of them without overdoing most be kept in mind. The first year's growth determines in a great measure what should he the futuro of Ihe animal. ■ At the forthcoming Show oHhe, Eoyaj Agricultural Society of England there |ill bfc an' organised |rfal of the various raetho'ds,'io ! wbich"at'iention has .lately been directed, of'drying hay and corn in Wet weather. A prize of 103 guineas has been offered for the best system. To make good butter in winter it is essential that the cream should not stand t«o long before, being churned. The temperature ot the cream when placed in the chtrn should not be lower than CO deg., nor higher than 62 deg. 60 deg. «hen the churn is warmed by the hot vfteer in winter or cooled'in summer/is the iPlir tempreture',' "' 1 High iarming-What is it?—To be brief, is it the growim. of the best crops oh 'the best soil unde'r the best conditions: and finally 'the crop giving the bept I'elurn 'There are coses where a kbmpafttively pddr crob'grown onVpoor pojl with little or no attention, may givo theb'eßf're)iurns-|is is the case ip tljo imperative extensive farming of a new flouutry. High farming is wheu muoh capital is expended on little land for the broduction of large crops of. great value. The production of beef on the plains may be as profitable as'the growing of onions, bilt itisndi high farming—it is the cbaracter of the culture'the soil receives and' not the profit,' that determines w'helher farming is high or low, High farming is the profitable farming of old thickly ip(,tled •countries, and the kind wears tehding to; but as yet it is by iio means (behest farming m all sections,' ; ' ;