FARM GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1555, 22 June 1882, Page 2

FARM GOSSIP.

Knrmers advocate—A correspondent of a eoutempoiary sends the following: — Can anyone suggest a better plan ? '' Which is the best way to exterminate wild oats? I have been trying to kill them, but they beat me so far. The nearest I have coinc is to plough the ground in the fall; harrow good in the spring, and give them a chance to grow a few inches, and then plough them under. Harrow again, and let them come up a few inches ; plough them, under again, and let them lie till they rot. That will be two batches killed. Then about the 20th of June sow about one-half bushel of buckwheat to the acre. If that comes np well there will not be many wild oats to be seen." With reference to a remark made the other day on a statement in Mr Sexton's speech to the effect that there were 100,000 tenants in arrears in' Ireland, a correspondent who' signs himself "A. E. F." writes:—"An equally startling statement might be made with reference to the English tenantry. _At the recent rent audit of Guy's Hospital estate in Lincolnshire, only two out of the whole number of tenants paid up. Yet the trustees of the great medical charity of Southwark are among the best of landlords, and their Lincolnshire estate is perhaps the fine&t producing area in the country. People unfamiliar 1 with the agricultural districts of this country have not the remotest idea of the terrible straits the farmers are in. One ot the largest cultivation in Lincolnshire recently assured me that he did not believe there were half a dozen tenants in the Fen district who could pay 20s in the pound were they pulled up to-morrow. — Pall Mall Gazette. The milk record of a crossbred Jersey and shorthorn cow is given by Hark Comstock in the Cultivator and Country Gentleman (Albany, N.Y.) as follows s — "In my letters on butter cows, in the winter of 1879-80, it will ,be remembered that I mentioned a crossbred Jersey shorthorn cow owned by General R. L. Howard, of Buffalo, N.Y., which gave 15261b of milk in thirty days, and 18$lb of butter in seven days, both on grass Y alone. She did-this in the spring of 1879, * when six years old. Generaf Howard, hud her tested again last spring, being two years older than when.the/previous test was made. The month* gave 17871b of milk, the greatest' yield in one day being " 62£lb. She als'e gave as High as 21 Jib of butter in seven consecutive days. Her ;feed wris grass and 1 four quarts ttf ground corn and oats each day. - - Her /height ■is 'estimated 1 to be. about 8501b, carrying; no ffleshy'aSjShe-retains none when] in njilk. She is a roan, but has tlie Jerseyumarking about the head. Her sire .was a pure Jersey bull, and. her, dam a. - pure shortw:sf- ~

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