The Farm.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1246, 24 June 1880, Page 3

The Farm.

Live Fences. — The sites intended for live fences should now be prepared. Plough a atrip three feet wide, and if subsoiied at the same time all the better; let the ground lie rough till required, either for planting quicks or sowing with gorse. Quicks may be planted at any time from the beginning of May till the end of August or middle of September, they should be cut well back when planted ; early spring will be soon enough for the corse seed.

Tusnips will now bo in full use. Those who havo large quantities of oats will do well to convert some of them into mutton, even half a pound per head per day will produce good results. The sheep will fatten in less time, and the turnipg will support a proportionately larger flock, the manure deposited will be richer, and the land will produce a better crop afterwards. Where the paddocks are not too large, it will pay to hurdje the sheep and feed the turnips off regularly, the manure will be more evenly distributed.

Wheat Sowing.' — No time should be lost in getting in thia crop, always remembering that the early sown wheat in favourable soils has often two chances to one over the late sown.

Ploughing. — Keep the plough con* sfcantly going, nothing like having the farm work well in hand — " Clear the brown path to meet the coulter's gleam ! Lo ! on ho comes behind his smoking team, With toil's bright dew-drops on his sun-burnt brow, The lord of carth — the Hero of the Plough."