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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 3

The decay of timber -i-rises from internal and .not from, external : mois-v ture • and so long as free evaporation is allowed, will not very readily : set in. It .would be very .absurd to say that no paint ought to be- used,, but it is . certain that a pipce-of wood • painted on both .sides jfeill hot last, nearly so long as one not painted : at all.; The reason is evident. The paint prevents the damp ffrom^vaporating. For this wood .should never Ye painted until it ,is : qujse ; dry throughout. „ , An Auckland paper states that at Hokiana (in the north of that, province) ! cattle have become so numerous;- that their owne^, shp.pt, thei^:fpr : lihe.^ike of i the^hides. | It is an admitted fact iii Japan and' •China, that ,the older, the tree, .the better the tea. The shrubs' whieh sup-, ply.; the nobles of Japan with tjieir favorite beverage,' are said to be, ip. many instances, five hundred years , old.—--',l.and and /Water. 1 "; ' . | /The (experience of almost, every fruit ! grower ijs in favour of .planting young j trees. jEight years' ago, says the owner , of an orchard, I set onP^twb, three, and j four yeir old apple treps, oh -the. dame jday^and ;in the^.samejsoii/ /the first, ;apples'c)ame * from ;the .oldest jxees," but at the pfcesent the o,ne and two. year old; trees are the most vigorous, ..and .have borne, in the aggregate, the uwsfc fruit.