FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4733, 30 May 1894, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

Points of a Good Cow. A lino door-like head, bright- eyes, tliin long neck, small borics, straight broad back, soft- skin and fine hair, deep flank and belly; thin long tail, thin thighs, a largo square-formed . udder, teats wide apart and of good size, and a largo milk vein running from tho udder up on the belly. The . fore-quarters of a good cow look thin and small in comparison with the hind-quarters and belly. Feed the Soil. The dairyman, no less than the ;■ fanner, requires to think bow to maintain the fertility of his soil, lie cam no moro from the farm, milk, bu'.frjtylff cheese without loss of fertilising elements than the farmer can by selling his wheat or hay, The Cud. Cows sometimes cease to bring up their food to be re-chewed. This results from some disordered condition of the stomach, and is sometimes relieved by giving the animal a piece of salt beef to chew. The act of chewing, and probably tho swallowing of the saliva generated, seems to awaken the stomach to its work of passing bits of food to the mouth —every "cud" which is chewed by the animal is swallowed, and goes back into a different stomach from that from which it first came, A new cud, or lump of food, is formed by tho stomach and sent- up to the mouth to replace the one swallowed, and this takes place many times a day, In other words tho cud is constantly being reproduced when the animal is ruminating. . , , Many a larmer 1" proud of how much land lie lias; not of how well he tills it. If he is owning or occupying land which he is turning to poor account, he should rather be ashamed than prond; and many a farmer who has moro land than lie can really use to advantage would do better, as his boys grow up to subdivide with them and keep thein near him than allow them to drift away in search of other homes. It will often be found that as good a yield, and bigger profits can be got from : ' half the land really farmed than there was from tho whole. What about the comers also, the unused patches which need a little clearing or levelling, or draining? They can 1 bo made to 'pay.—Agriadfarht