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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 16, 22 October 1874, Page 3

ItcHinbss in Horses. — The following recipe will remove the cause of the above seriobs coniplaint :— Powdered nitre, 2oz ; powdered resin (amber), 4oij; emetic tartar, loz'; powdered gerietian, 2oz; aethiops mineral, l^ofc — for one horse. Mi* intimately for eight powders. Give one every night in a bran mash. The following will restore the hair ; — Ckmphor, loz.; oil rosemary, $oz; lard,"3£oz— tobe rubbed in night and morning, fIArRBX'L^ in Cattle. — When oxen and dther cattle, thac chew the cud, begin to shed their coats, these hairballs are likely to be formed in their stomacbs, as the only means they have of scratching themselves in places is to apply their tongues ; and when the hair xomes off, as itj frequently dpes, by the handful, more or less of it will adhere to the tongrie, and often finds' its way into the stomach, and the reciprocating motion, of the stomach soon forms a bunch of 'hair into a pellet; and, as wore hair is taken into it froih day to -dav, it [would be. very sure all to-collect in "one" mass.. Now, when an animal begins to shed its coat there always appears to be ihtire or less irritation ofthe skin, and if the card or curry-comb is 'not used pretty freely, the tongue must be applied ; but if the animal is well . curried every day, when it is shedding 'its coat, it will be far less liable to collect hair in its stomach. A ball of hair being indigestible.-, will be sure to injure Ihe animal's energies, so as to produce .disease, and eventually premature death. liiese hairballs are by no means uncnmmpn, and are as round and as hard as a cricket ball.

How to Test the Quality of Wool — Take a lock of wool from a "sheep's! back, and place it upon an inch rule. If you can count from 30 to 33 ofthe spirals or folds in the space of an .inch, it equals in. quality the finest wool •grown in Upper Saxony. Of course 'where the number of spirals to the inch diminishes, the quality bf the wool becomes relatively inferior. Many tests Save been tried, but this is considered A&e simpWt and best. :, r; Gotis wold wool J iand some othei; inferior, sorts do - not ttteasUre nine spirals tp the inch. With 'Ihis test every farmer haSs in his posses■fcibh a ; knowledge which" will enablb him *ip form a correct judgment of the all kinds of wool. There are , coarse, wools, which experienced wool-growers do not rank as wool, biit as hair, onacceunt of the hardness and straigbt-dess of tbe fibre. •;; Oat Straw as Fpod for Sick : &NiMAL3:-— Sick torses will eat bat straw in preference to any other kind 6f j fodder j as a, matter .of course, however, j -soirie willirefuse* to ' eat it. Oat. straw j ; contains. a lageprbportipn'pf nutrimen- j l tal mWttef-and some-'phesphates, and 1 "vihm donVet'ted into* a sort of bran by ;pieah*3 Sfmiil-stone-g, is at Very nourishing diet. :'Jhi-3 s'Oftfpf aliment is useful, "wSeft(K?febined wiih ground oats, for animalsiwhosp ey^teins , lack the requisite amouirfc- df'phpspbates. A milch fcow,» for Sample,' the subject pf prosfr&tipg disease^is v^ry much benefited ••'-"■""[ I .'.; /TEe : rbp6rfs the case, Aofi v'-hm]^which, not centent to broodj over 36 l froiibleßJ appropriated the brbpds; <itf two'bthdrrhoijs, numbering 37 in all,: