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Further, it means a big gain in your stock ; less of the starvation and poverty that 
°0 often makes the life of our average dairy-farm cow one prolonged misery, 
and which frequently shortens it by years, and which is a standing disgrace to 
halt, of our so-called farmers. Why should stock in any ordinary season take 
re the summer to recover from the effects of the previous winter? We see 
MS Only too often ; in fact, in many parts it is the usual thing. Is it not 
Ccause, first, there is little or no provision made for housing and feeding in the 
Winter ? and, secondly, because there is no proper management of the pastures 
ued to make sure of the grass, as I have suggested? It is not my purpose in 
Ns article to deal with the question of handfeeding, but I want to say this— 
at if the systematic working of grazing paddocks is backed up by sensible 
°using and feeding in the winter season, those who follow it up will be surprised 
0 find what good results they will obtain. 
THE BUTTER BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS, VAR. AUREA). 
By WILLIAM FRENCH, 
(ueensland Agricultural College. 
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ae Variety | consider one of the very best dwarf beans for summer sowing, 
Stands the heat and drought better than any of the other varieties. 
hase ground should be ploughed to a depth of, say, 8 or 9 inches, and be well 
Hes néown with the roller and harrow, and if notin good tilth it is well to 
mene Second ploughing, harrowing, and again roll, as it will well repay the 
. cite on getting it into good order. To bear this out one need only take 
me around the district and compare the well tilled with the badly tilled land, 
hote the difference in the crops—luxuriant growth on one side of the fence 
diff © reverse on the other, although the soil is practically the same, the 
‘rent result being simply owing to good and bad cultivation. 
a “ake Sowing Butter Beans, measure off the ground in rows 8 feet apart, so as 
fitainee the scuffle room to work. Drop the seeds at distances of from 4 to 6 
ar In the rows, as they do better without crowding. If the seeds be fresh and 
and the weather favourable, they will be up in less than a week. 
is nS the Planet: Junior is available, sow with it, as it will save a great deal of 
a Dut failing it, stretch a line to keep everything straight, as nothing looks 
chip Heal pra Lie than a field of plants out of line. Draw a drill with the 
ir ae 10¢ along the line about 3 inches deen and let one boy follow to drop 
ean eo it and another to cover them in, With the ground in good order you 
which ong at a fair walking pace, and can quickly sow half-an-acre of land, 
about a ra Will require about three quarts of beans, the Butter Bean being only 
naa the size of some of the ordinary varieties such as Canadian Wonder. 
ti ‘fhe 1 anything like fair weather you should have some beans fit for picking 
Speak; Sixty days,* and you haye a splendid bean for the table, with, practically 
ms, 0 fibre whatever, so that they can be cooked whole or sliced up 
Wit Sanh oes 
hout the labour of stringing. 
Mas te ; BACKWARD IN MAIZE-HARVESDING. 
Dae Vater, Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, in a 
m the NS.W. Agricultural Gazette, Says :— 
hes i 'S to be hoped that the farmers, in the maize-growing districts, will 
be eve attention this season to improved maize-harvesting machinery. 1 
larventi at in this colony we are more backward in our system of maize- 
——""ng than in any other maize-growing country. Queensland farmers are 
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wish — ~ = 
Utter Baer: appears to be rather a long time before the plants begin to bear. We sowed 
»OVember tringless Beans on the 11th November; they appeared above ground on the 19th 
being pick, and on the 19th December a peck was gathered, and they are now bearing heavily and 
*xed every day.—Kd. Q.A.J. 
