STACKING STRAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2725, 14 October 1887, Page 2

STACKING STRAW.

; While .oats,\or,.wheat straw, is - .defiftient in the albuminoids; hence not a good feed'. for .growing :animals,. and always a wasteful feed if fed algae; if fed, with oilnioal and ration give good results, and the of the straw are put to good use in keeping(up the animal heat iivcold weather. Properly fed, • straw. ha.s. sufficient feeding. vuluo to pay thric.e for the cost of saving it'; yet it is jiafe,-to say that one-half,the straw produced in this country is wasted'outright..:,Even tho manure formed from" it is lost, Straw rnay.be so. stacked that it will keep in good condition until it.is fed out during the winter.' It is-.the common opinion that tho straw, stack furnishes tlib hardest positions aboiit the and'henco the mon usuaUy take the 9ther.po3itions,leaying.th wish the' straw properly stacked, you must see ..that' capable,-men are put upon the stack,, and you . .must insist. upon their doing their work well. A vory common faultis to start the stack ' too wide.. It will always, spread of itself, and becomes so , that it must be'drawn the wator sinks into it'. ~ Auptherault isnot to keep the centre "highest and trampled solid. Let one njan bo delegated to lay the outside, .and-each of.the other men to stack and trample down a certain section of , the-interior, and not to stand in a hole, and throw the straw idly about hini.. J requires' * elpse'supervision and. good- work, to make a.; straw stack.' And,.'wbeh .it is made, do not aHow, tbo.top jtd'be blown off fprlaok of a fow V'jieepors," or the cattle to waste'.half o| it-~ being allowed to run' Vibe Stack, Put a fence , olpsearound .jthe jßtaok, and build racks'. or','maiigiers' ] close to the fence! Then, during .the winter, outdOTO the stack with-a-,inife, aild - fill the maiigers, Put the. a pen • and. roof it,' or else have, it evenly .distributed through' the, stack.- Do not allow it to., accumulate an a mass around and under .the straw- carriers, to spoil. ,The above ie written for the benefit of those who. liave -hot- mowrooin or. barraok. for. .the straw.— Agriculturist, . :'' FREE DINNiBEtSrW ': Th<* wealthy Australian: squatter, Mr Thomas Holt, who is- (rediarks'tbe Itonie News) well.kuowii ia the Colpnies ior bis benevolence and phiianthrophy, i's uow providing free dinuers to the indigent poor of. Sobo; and .. neighborhood. These dinners will be continued throughout,, the winter,and the first of tho series,-, which was given last- Monday, was. it remarkable and suggestive-incident. Two hundred and fifty mon and women sat down, all • very poor, and all suffering froni sonje kind of bodily, infirmity. ltroMjis desire to extend his benefactions .pyet an wide an area as possible, Mr Holt,. has arranged that the;next. diaaet*3hajEi' ; be given to the«saudwi'c)i of the' - district, thoso worthy toileity who"per-ambulate-our streets in all weathers and other classes of ueody worhrs will : . also be invited iu due kind-hearted gentloman, togetlier'with his two daughters, have since their arrival in this country manifested sjreat interest in the poor who crowd the courts and alleys near the great Westend thoroughfares, In selecting dinners as the . channel for. the disbursement of their charity, the donors had chosen a most suitable meaas for providing temporary alleviation of the sufferiugs for the half-famished hundreds' in this city, Mr Holt is, unfortunately an invalid, ind unable to take an active part in bis charitable work, but the Misses Hoit, in a.true Christian spirit' attend manally in the dispensation of the gced things provided at these philanthropic entertainments.