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FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Worth Breeding.—Tbo prize yearling Clydesdale colt Priuce Gallent has b?cn sold for £1,500, by Mr Park to Mr Simpson, of St. I'olmac, Bute. Limb.—Limo has a tendency to sink in tbo Boil, aud Durwiu has showu that the action of earth-worms buries it, so that it is best to apply small doses of lime at short intervals rather than large doses at long intervals. Prairie Grass.— Californiau Prairie Grass is proving to be one of the most valuable fodder plants for Southern Queensland, affording, as it does, abundant nutritious feed during* winter months. But, although it is a winter grass, it flourished abundantly during a moist summer. It ia an exceedingly hardy grass a good seeder, is perennial, and grows abundantly on a light soil totally unsuited to the deep-rooting lucerne plant. Plague of Field Mice at Dumfries shire.—Sheep farmers in the hill districtofDumfriesshira report a remarkable in»B vasion of field mice, the hills being swarming with tfeem. The ground in many parts was riddled with them, and the vermin have dono great injury to the grass, as they tear it up by the very roots, thus rendering further growth impossible at present. They are inucli larger in size than ordinary field mice, approaching in many instances almost to the size of a rat. Foot-and-Mouth Disease in* Prussia. —A report lately issued by the German Minister of Agriculture shows that foot • and-mouth-diseaseis spreading in Prussia. At the end of February there were 107 districts and 222 communities infected with the disease, and by the end of March these had increased to 142 districts and ! 362 communities. The districts of Koings-- j berg, Stralsund Schclwig, Onsbruck, : Aurich, and Munster were declared to be j free from disease at the end oi' March. \ Long Prices for Polled Cattlic ix America.—A draft sale of some forty head of animals of different sexes from the celebrated Turlington herd of Polled Angus cattle recently took place at Chicago. The herd included representatives of several of the best strains of the breed, including the Erica and Heather Bloom families; and the sale attracted a ! large crowd of admirers of the blacksking j from different parts of the States. There j was remarkably keen competition for aH j the animals offered, and the forty head j disposed of averaged over £53. One of thu j cows made £185, a yearling calf made j £165, and a two-year-old £100. Meat Packing Extraordinary— j During twelve months, as we read in the ; Meat Trades' Journal, the hoases of Chi- ; cago killed and packed 4,425,000 hogs and j 1,108.000 beeves, their product going to i all parts of the world. This represents a ! large proportion of the whole number of these animals in the States which arc fat> . ted to kill, for at the opening of this year ' it was estimated ihere wore in the country, \ of hogs of all kinds 44,000,000, and of catfle j exclusive of milch cows, 33.000,000. The i products reach enormous figures, being'no ! lees than 1,005,000,000 lb. of pork and lard j for the year, and 5-33,000,000 lb. of dressed i beef. A very largo proportion of the i pork and 810,000,000 lb.,was exported be* j yond the State-!, and of this 90 per ccnt. j came to the United Kingdom. | Frozen Poultry.—The Western Star j says:—A Mr Sproat has written the \ following letter to the London Star, i which our farmers might well make a j note of : "During the months of April and ! May English poultry is not ouly of in- j feriov quality but exorbitant in price. It ; is quite a difficulty to get a good-sized j tender fowl,andjwhen by good fortune sue falls in with such a luxury the purchase : money varies from 4s to ss. What is the j result ? Only those who care not what j

they pay and 'hose who pay not at all can ' go in ' for such a delicacy ; •whilst the middle class must be content with * old liens,' and the poor folk with ' tough Russian cocks.' . . . What an advantage it would bo to have poultry from New Zoalaud. I understand full-grown chickena arc retailed there at the modest sum of la to Is 3d, and more over they aro in their prime about January—The very time they could be despatched for delivery in April and May. " Verb. sap. What Mr Sproat puts forward is perfectly true : there is certainly an open market for poultry in London in the spring and early summer. Daikv Cows.—Dairy cows, if well managed, will now be coming into full profit; plenty of water, clean sweet grass, soiling, and quietude are three great elements of successful cow keeping, romem bering always that it takes as much to feed a bad cow as it does a good one ; better far to pay a few pounds extra and procure an animal from a known good strain, and use the best: bull within your roach. In making a selection, look out for a fine head and neck, soft skin and silky hair, broad quarters, and capering tail, udder well forward and spacious behind, soft to the touch, with plenty of milk veins, and see that the teats are all perfect; these are a few of the essential points. The dairy should now be coming into full and profitable operation. The greatest care and attention arc necessary in every thing connected with the dairy stock and utensils. Clean milking is among the chief things to attend to, as the last drop is by far the richest; and any portion left in the udder is quickly absorbed into the system, which goes to promote fat, the udder bccomes less capacious and the secretion of milk be comes imperceptibly less and less at every milking; it is also a certain preventive of sore udders. Teats are often lost in this way, and the most valuable cows become | useless for dairy purposes. Cows that have once aborted or slinked their calves | should be quickly got rid of, as they ara j always liable to the same thing occurring. When tho accident dous occur, be J specially careful to remove the aniuial 1 from contact with the other cows in calf,

| ! as either fr*-m sympathy or some other ; cause, they too will be apt to slip. Tin .nost scrupulous cleanliness should , j pervade everything connected with the \ dairy ; constant scouring and rinsing are • necessary ; but to keep the vessels properly clean and sweet there is nothing so j , effective as having a boiler largo enough , | to receive them, and to give them, being I ' well cleaned previously, a good boil, l : which completely extracts all tho oily [ particles from every crevice. Laval's and other cream separators are coming into ! ; general use. They arc not only great . ' savers of labour, but extract a larger ' j percentage of cream from the milk than . can be had by the ordinary method of , ' setting in pans. For small dairies hand- , | power machines can bo had at very little | cost.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3004, 15 October 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

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FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3004, 15 October 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3004, 15 October 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

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