FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3020, 21 November 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Polt.ed A.nt.u.s Bui.ls.—The North Otauo Times says: — " Tlicro were shipped bytheOhau on Wednesday, for Napier, threo head of Polled Angus cattlo from the herd of tlio New Zealand and Australian Laud Company, Totara, Two of the animal* (bulls) go to Mr Johnson, and 0110 to Messrs Murray, Robert*, and Co. The demand for this breed of cuttle has been unprecedented during the past yoar, so much so that at Totara there are now only six young bulls, besides the stud animals. The demand ia principally frotr the North Islands and Australia. To show the demand that exists on tho other side, orders for 10 head came over recently, and tho company could only partly supply the order." Irrigation' is Canterbury.—lt is interesting to kno v (says tho Christehnrch Press) that last summer irrigation was tried as an experiment 011 the Mount Grey station, in North Canterbury, with very favourable results. Thrco hundred acres of virgin land were ploughed and put down in turnips. Water was applied, with the eonsequenco that the 300 acres yielded the best crop in tho district. The full advantages of irrigation were not obtained, owing to the land not beiuir levelled and prepared in tho necessary manner, In tin hollows and on tho ridges the turnips were not large, but in places where they had received a cortain amount of wafer the turnip-; were large and well grown.

A IT KillCAN' FaT'.M Kits' At, MANf'F..—OrCflt interest has been taken by farmeithroughoiit the world in the progr'-s an t development of the American Farni.-r" A'li nife or Granges as they aio called there. The whole of l;hes,. associationare now amalgamated for political purposes, and the Alliance, as the whole or-ganis-tion is called is recoatii-ed as a huge power in the land. " Tho Man of Mars Lane" states that I lie American Farmer.-' Alliance is contemplating ti-itig it power for the good of its members, and proposes holding all the new wheat crop for -Us perquarter in London, ,- The Man of Mark Lane "'-ays the proposal is net like l v to Lrreatly ali'.ct tho markets but i; may be taken as indicating a growin : resistance to a 30s level iu tho producinj districts both of the centre and of th. hoi th-west.

Piii.i.kd ('attlk.—Tho evolution of a now breed of cattle is occupying the attention of stockowners in the United

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VS' N' I T A L I'l! .FITS l-ROM IVMRV o*>\VS. — \1 ' I). iis.,ll, 'i.. ( tl ' riiiii ")' i■ \tipi'l, "i <1 lirviiiif, - a f'(l ill a r, j e- ,t het.ne th il. 10-lvtiirn-fi'i.n eows vuini fr.,m i*;l CIO |)er h ',i l. Xow, this (says tlio Au»ti'Lilasinii) is « startling sfiil.eiiieiit, an.l yet it ii true, while it has to bo admitted that the majority of fir mors do not obtain the average return represented by these two extreme-. Tho variation i.s'eausel by methods of feeding, mutinfaeturin?, and marketing', an wellas by the ehuractpr of the oows, tint owinif t.o the I'aet that eattle of the wrong sort do not turn the extra food which they eonsiirne into milk, there is no doubt the greatest, dili'orence is paused by keppin<r of info:ior .stock. When tho lior.l has been badly chosen, the results are un-atisfactory in ' ordinary oirßurastanccu, but tho disappointmpnt increases in proportion to tho efforts of the farmer to improve bis results by extra feoding-. Tlie annual ti dairy farmers throiiffh the kcfjjlti}» of unsuitable cattle is .so i_ r reat "that tlio improvement of the breed is a matter of special importance. Hippiiy there are in Victoria many .-Mid herd- of Ayrshire and .Jersey catlle available tor improving our dairy stock, while the use of suortli-.rn bull*! ttaii aNo be rp-orted to with good prospects of .sucerss. It is worthy of notice that some of the branches of tho South Australian Bureau i.f Agriculture are taking-practical steps to improve tlie dairy cattle of their districts. The plan adopted i.s for the bureau to purchase a good bull by a levy upon the members. Such a course is well worthy of attention of tboso agricultural societies in this colony whos" system of offering prizes year after year has not had the desired effect.

Mr Chaplin- on Dkai> Meat.— For some months past tlicro Ins been a good deal of outcry about alleged ill-treatment; of cattle while crossing t.h» Atlantic to England, and her Majesty the Queen has even deigned to manifest sympathy iviili the sufferings tho American eiit'le are said to undergo on board ship Mr Chaplin, the Minister for Agriculture, proposed to bring- in a bill er.titled '• The Atlantic Cattle Trade Bill," which would, [ believe, have pretty well abolished the trade in live cattle. The bill, however, for s >mo reason did not bonom • law, and instead there is to he a compulsory- enforcement of m ire humine rules iu the shipping or live cattle. A great outcry has been raised bv shipowners and others interested in the trade, and they say that Mr Chaplin is going ia for protection for the British producer ut tho expense of the consumer, who will, they aver, have to pay a higher price for th'eir b.vf if the importation of American and Canadian cattle is interfered with. A deputation from the .shipping trade waited upon Mr Chaplin and pointed out to liim the effect likely to result from a total or partial suppression of the trade. Mr Chaplin, however, very coolly informed the deputation (I;a, they need not be alarmed on account of tho British consumer, for after 11 the for 'ijn meat supply, both de-id and alive, was onlv 23 per cent, of the whole annual meat consumption of Britain, the Home-grown meat supplying the other G7 per' cent. Moreover, he informed them that should the importation of livo cattle be slopped altogether, it n-auld affect the British consumer very little, for dead meat can be imported in any qua!i>- from .S--n'.a America and Austral ;sj i. Ilea!-., ,j r . attention io the tact tiia! wie ti dead nuai. is imported Ihe fait thai it is foreign meat cannot be roiieealcl, and that, h" said, was a great advantage to the consumor. On fhe other hand, he said, when it, is brought over alive and hilled iu Kutrlaud. a great part of it is sold an best Knghsh and Seo.'-h h-of, whieli cannot b; done with impoitel ch ad meat. Iu this I'm afraid Mr Chaplin is not so well post,.,), up as lie might b\ and probably he h isofiontimes eat n imputed frozen meat while thinking it. piiain English or Se-.teh, bee ,use his hutch, r charged him somewhere about. 1., pur lb for it. If i,o su-.x-eeds in slopping* 11 o shipment of live eit tle aeioss the At ian ti •, th" Australasian produe, is must. ,vap the advantage in an iucrea i ei demand for frozen meat, unless, indeed, the cattle from Canada and tho Status are

irn/en for r-x|v-rt in plnro of b<-itiur ship-I<-d alive. When Mi' Chaplin has :nrrird his Atlantic Cattle Trade Hill lm hud ! i-tt.-r ;ui-ii hi- .attention to risi-htin.tr tho -.wf'UK-; "f 1 lie British consumers with :e:,'ard to thi' manner in which they and wi'urn swindled hy the retail butchers who sell illf- tior English meat us in,ported and prime imported 11s iu'st 111 mi •• frrowti. We only want ,mr produce to bu sold on its merit*, and n.ceivu )':iiv play at the hnndß of those unscrupulous middle 111011 who, while 1.1 (it. . Mil.:, to iuiiere the frozen ni":it, are ill 1 l,e while milking immense profits by ... il 11' !- I l'm-e preli liei'S, Ilu V.-l'V r.ill' '■ the prndurer and dreeiving the -.! MI."UIIItT.