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Imperial E. A. B. McDonald's. Drawing one six-furrow McKay's disc 

 plough and one four furrow Mitchell disc plough. 



Fordson Oil Tractor. Tarrant's. Motor Proprietary. Drawing four- 

 furrow disc Robinson plough. 



Bates' Steel Mule. Clutterbuck Bros. Drawing five-furrow set mould- 

 board Mitchell plough. 



Samson Tractor. Ferrier. Drawing four-furrow disc Sunshine plough. 



Every tractor when at work was controlled by a steward, with powers 

 to insure a workmanlike job of the ploughing, with an average depth of 4 

 inches. On both days of the trials 3 acres of land were allotted to the separate 

 entrants, with the exception of Jelbart's Crude Oil Tractor, which took two 

 lands each day. 



The visitors showed very keen interest in these demonstrations, and no 

 doubt a step forward in construction has resulted since last year's display. 



LiVK-STOCK. 



Horses. — During the past month the Farm draught horses have been heavily 

 worked on the seasonable cultural operations, and the twenty three-year-old 

 fillies and geldings by the Clydesdale stallion ^lajor Oates, recently broken 

 in, have settled down to work and are developing into big strong animals. 



Oaten and wheaten hay form the bulk of their ration, while concentrates, 

 in the form of boiled barley and beet sugar molasses, are given to those which 

 are doing the heaviest of the fallowing work. 



Eight foals have already been dropped, by the Clydesdale stallion Baron 

 Wigton, and fifteen more are expected during this month. 



Cattle. — Both the Red Polled and Holstein Friesian herds have improved 

 in milk yields, particularly towards the end of the present month, as we have 

 been able to pasture them on the spring crop of lucerne on' some of the smaller 

 fields of the farm. 



Twenty-one prizes were secured at the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Show, including Champion and Reserve Champion Red Polled cows, Champion 

 Red Polled bull and Reserve Champion Friesian bull. 



Eight calves were dropped during the month. 



Silage and chaff reserves are ample for the needs of the dairy herds till 

 the new crops are harvested. 



Sheep.— The shearing of the flock ewes, 1,0()() liead, and 100 stud hoggets 

 was completed on 17th September. The average cli|i from the whole of these 

 crossbred ewes was 10 lbs. 



Twenty-six entries were made in the Border Leicester and Suffolk classes 

 at the Royal Show, 23 prizes being secured, including First and Champion 

 ^^y\1l Border Leicester Ewe ; First for Border Leicester two-tooth Ram ; First 

 m^jp^hampion for Suffolk Ewe ; and Fiist and Reserve Champion for Suft'olk 



Spec 

 the tractol^olk cross lambs have been marketed during the past month at an 

 a large nunr^^ of £1 l^^- P^r head ; 80 aged cross-bred ew-es brought 28s. 6d. 

 of tractors anU^tion, and 300 lambs are still on the farm awaiting trucking 

 The Trial Tractor To date 160 per cent, of lambs have been marked from 

 the form of a demonl30 j)er cent, from our Border Leicester stud, 

 were not officiallv recc^Togess has been made in the direction of the new 

 themselves. The follow/ni, to accommodate the fowls recently transferred 

 stration purposes only, i^nn- 



Sunshine S.F. No. 1 2''e being gathered from 530 pullets and hens, while 

 Sunshine disc plough. e brooders and chicken limises. 



