NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 18 February 1927, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

HERE AND THERE. Belt-slip in the separating plant is a costly slip. In commencing to feed roots to ewes, the greatest care must be ex. crcised for fear of bringing on alimentary troubles which, in, turn may bring on, or cause, abortion, which is considered by experienced farmers as one of the principal causes of our turnip-fed ewes failing to give a high percentage of lambs. In - the case of dairy cows, a considerable amount of the natural chlorine goes in the milking, and it is usually necessary to add salt to their rations. Rock salt left in the paddocks is apt to be wasted, and it is a better plan to have it placed in a box, in some accessible spot in the shed. Heredity and environment were the two important points in connection with dairy cows. Good cows made good farmers; good farming enabled better homes to be built; good homes produced better citizens, and good citizens made for national stability. Milk is a true secretion. It is not merely strained from material in the blood, because it contains ingredients w r hich arc not fuond in the blood. Foi’ example, the chief protein of milk casein, as well as lacloso or milk sugar, is not found in blood. ' Fertilisers ,ffoi- swedes should consist of a quick-acting phosphate, ’ in order to promote rapid growth during the early stages when plants are subject to insect attack, and. a slowacting phosphate to carry on the-grow-th well into • the winter. Mixtures of super and bone give good i results. The seed and fertiliser should be mixed immediately before sowing and not left to- stand.