FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 248, 11 December 1873, Page 2

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

A correspondent wmits infoi mat ion as to the advantages of cooling milk. Wo nn*wt>r that experiment has shown | that the cream wiU rue much nioie rapidly, and be better fit for churning into good butter if the milk is suddtnly and thoroughly cooled ad soon ns it is drunn from the cow. The idea is of special to large dealers in milk m well as to chee c eroakers. The use of cooleri would perhaps enable our c'leesemaker* to overcome a strong objpction to our colonial cheeie — the defect in flavour. A Mr Ferris gives Ins experience in deep ploughing as follows — 110 says, I have had §oni« experience in winter wheat and clo\er, and the mo^t successful fanners are those who plough deep in the heal of the summer for thoso crops. I bare dug up and manured red clo\er roota over four feet long that grew in made soil. Two years ago I set out a young orchard, and the same spring seeded it to timothy and clover. The ground had been ploughed five inches deep ; but around the trees I spaded the soil two feet to give the young trees a start. Last summer I mowed the grass, and around the trees where it had been worked to a depth of two ftet, the timothy heads were tw eh c inches long — straw and head five feet — while two feot distant the grass was not more than half as large. The subsoil was gravelly loam descending to the south. I find I can make an almost worn out soil produce a gmjd crop of potatoes by deep ploughing. Modern farming demands jenergetic work. He who expacts to succeed shoa'd not pled along in the old beaten track. Farmers must have their wits about them and thenfaculties should bo briL'ht and active. A farmer should work hard j but his work need net be for any great length of tune of the back-breaking, muscle-straining order. That kind of work should be left to those who can not do anything better. A farmer should study himself. He should knowbis own strength. He can not do but a certain amount of work. He should be very careful not to waste his power. Energy is what a farmer needs. He mu9t put more force, spirit, and pluck into his work. He must be wide awake, and wake up those who work for him. Let the work of to-dny be well and promptly done ; but, at the same time, iay plans for to-morrow. Harvest the ci ops you have on the ground, but make such preparations as will insure better crops next year. The following picture from an American paper will suit the case of many : — "We have- a hard-working neighbour who was compelled to serve on a jury for ten days. He came back to his farm and his work as fresh as a horse that has had a month's run at grass. Previously he was somewhat despondent. He visited his city friends, and found that, like himself, they were not free from care and anxiety. He took courage. Life assumed a more cheerful aspect. He felt healthier, stronger and richer. He was inoi c satisfied with his lot in life. While others had j a wilted look, and when addressed said it was dreadful hot, he shook bands heartily and said it was charming weather. That ten days rest made him ten years younger. He renewed his youth. He put new life and spirit into all the labours of the farm. He did double the work, and did it twice as well. The truth is he is now a man. He had worked and worried himself sick. He needed rest. Needed intercourse with his fellow men. Needed to get his thoughts out of the nits they had been so long running in. There was nothing the matter with his machinery. It wai a little rusty, It needed cleaning aad oiling and tigbtning the bolts. Little things fretted him. The failure of his wheat crop worried him until he could not sleep at nights. The thought of paying his interest on his mortgage thiew him into a cold sweat. But a little change lias cured him of these morbid fancies, and made quite a I new man of him.