FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.
« Ammonia in Manure.—Manure contains the elements of which ammonia is formed during decomposition, viz., nitrogen and hydrogen, but as decomposition is a. very alow process, the ammonia is only very slowly evolved. As it is produced it is in tho form of gas, which is dissolved in the water existing in the manure, or it combines with the abundant carbonic acid evolved during , the decomposition, and forms carbonate of ammonia. It is very rare that any ammonia can bo detected escaping from a manure heap. The fetid odourof a manure hill is not canned by ammonia, but by compounds of sulphur mid enrbon, tho Eiime ns those evolved by decaying etrjr.i and rotten cabbages. The nmmonia nf manure is very slowly disengaged, requiring , a year or nioro before it is nil produced and evolved, and as the soil absords it freely, there is scarcely any danger of any loss of this valuable part of tho manure, as it is commonly used. The pungent odour of a horso stable is caused by the escaping of ammonia, and farmers lose more of this element of manure in this way in one warm night from an unclean horse stable than from their manure heaps in a year. A Special Purpose Cow.—There are those who believe in a special purpose cow one that will attend to milk and butter business, and another that will act according to the desires of the butcher. There are others who wi.*h to combine the two (he milk and the meat —and they find it can be done with a good-selected and jndiciously-bred line of shorthoruß. A farmer, who likes to keep the two lines of business apart, has a dairy which had for its foundation an Ayrshire cow, a breed well-known for milking properties. He considers ho has the most profitable bntter cow ho has ever seen, Jerseys or Guernseys not excluded. He describee her as of medium nizo with a long face broad muzzle, and strong juws; a slim ewe neck, thiu, (-loping; shoulders, large prirth and immense abdomen, She has a sharp high backbone, thin hams, (jiving room for her largo udder, which runs well forward, as well as back. She is a voracious eater and gives a quantity of rich milk, which never makes less than seven pounds of butter per hundred, and sometimes more. Sho has a generally loose, relaxed, and bony appearance. She never had, and I do not believe ever will have, an onnce of superfluous flesh. She is very sensitive to cold, and onnnot bear rough treatment or oxposure to storms. Sho is so far from hardy enough to withstand the fare that some far-mere give cows that she would probably die on it, where scrubs would Keem to do fairly well. But she has got the kind of hardinefis that will enable her, with right feeding and care, to produce three pounds of butter per day. That is tho kind of hardiness that pays.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2986, 3 September 1891, Page 4
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499FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2986, 3 September 1891, Page 4
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