. Farmer and stockbreeder . means of suppressing the disease. ARMY STRAW LEFT ON FARM The Staffordshire War Agricultural Committeehave received complaints that large quantities of6traw sold to the Army authorities last autumnhad not yet been removed from the farms of thecounty. This straw is stored in barns, and as theseare needed for this years harvest great incon-venience is resulting. The Committee have decidedto bring the complaints under the notice of theForage Committee of the Board of Agriculture. At Messrs. Read, Stanford and Owless sale atBeccles on Friday week were included a quantit
. Farmer and stockbreeder . means of suppressing the disease. ARMY STRAW LEFT ON FARM The Staffordshire War Agricultural Committeehave received complaints that large quantities of6traw sold to the Army authorities last autumnhad not yet been removed from the farms of thecounty. This straw is stored in barns, and as theseare needed for this years harvest great incon-venience is resulting. The Committee have decidedto bring the complaints under the notice of theForage Committee of the Board of Agriculture. At Messrs. Read, Stanford and Owless sale atBeccles on Friday week were included a quantity ofagricultural machinery by order of the East SuffolkWar Agricultural Committee. Titan tractors made£170, £155, £215, and £110; Fordson tractors £180,£175, £160, £175, £155, £160, £170, and £175; Clay-ton tractors £140, £185, and £155; Mogul tractors£60 to £85; Oliver ploughs £15 to £26; Ransomeploughs £11 to £21; Martins cultivators £14 to £25;Disc harrows £18 to £20; Moline binders £45 and£ Photo by] Shires—Property of Mr. R. Crow, Bracknell, Berkshire [Parson*. Bracknell Lojty, by King of Tandridge, with colt-foal byChildwick Champion. Blagdon Mulbury, by Lockinge Blagdon, dam of Bracknell Lofty.—A winner of prizes. 906 THE FARMER AND STOCKBREEDER May 1ft, 1019. Replies to Miscellaneous Queries FARM CAPITAL, (J. W.).—If you get in on £9,000 you will not be extravagant. From youraccount, the land requires much work before it willcrop fully. This suggests you will run rather lightlyon live 6tock for a time; but you will drop capitalto counterbalance this in cleaning and getting intoorder. This sum is for the farming, and not in-clusive of estate repairs. In the long run, you wouldprobably find that a bold endeavour to clean asmuch land a6 possible this summer would be themost profitable, though there would be less imme-diate return. One can run along on rather poorbuilding for a time, but it is the land with drain-age ditches that need t
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