Fanning Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 288, 14 April 1894, Page 4

Fanning Items.

" Gradually," aajs the Adelaide Ol ser ver, " the practice is fxtrnding all over the colonies, amonust provident farmers, of sowing 21b or 31b rape seed per acre on the stubble and hnrrowme it in Th« seeds come up with (he first run?, always protiat* foine f«vd, hikl oflrn an abundance, wlncli n'mc» m ju<« riizht for all stock nnd at i!ir tamo time cleans and enriches the field. Some farmer* put in 2 b or3lb r er acre of white mu«tard,and some sow from Vb to 31b . of turnip 8< cd. Perhaps il might be a good plan to try two or three acres with ench sort, and keep watch on the results. The green feed along wi h the old dry straw if much appreciated by tbe slock, and as all weeds come up at the same time they can be ploughed under before they pro* duce seed." Sheer?, a student of modern milling, concludes that wheat should sot be hand* led too tenderly in cleaning. "In twelvr years" experience," ho says," I have never seen wheat overcleaned. No smut ter using steel or chilled iron surface* has ever scoured wheat too much, if un* broken. The brush is a great help, but it is not intended to take the place of the smut ter " Milk all tbe wujfrom Scotland i« no* nold in London. It is said to be of richer quality than' tbe lacteal fluid generally supplied to customers. It is forwarded ty rail in specially constructed carriages. The evening's milk reochiug the metropolis the next morning. The cost of carriage is 2d per gallonIt is said that a new industry hn« sprung up at France, the selling of milk frozen solid in cans. It has been discovered that milk can be kept perfectly fresh in a frozen condition for over a month. It is frozen by means of an ordinary ice-making machine, and despatched by road, rail, or steamer to its 4effftM(ioa. Tho customer who pur i chases 'the frozen milk has simply to' thaw it when required for use.

The New Factory Inspectorlira Grace Neill, who has been op* pointed Inspector of Factories for the districts of the North Island from Wel> ' lington to Wanganui, (says the Welling- } ton correspondent of the Otago Daily ' Times) is a lady of attainments as well as of practical experience amongst the workers of England, Germany, aod Australia. 6 he has high recommendations from the Queensland Government.where she was a prominent member of the Royal Commission on factories in 1892, and later has been specially employed to as* certain the extent and nature of the distress among the w.ves and children of the necessitous unemployed of ttie city of Brisbane and suburbs After her arrival in New Zealand she wis employed as a typewriter in the Labor Bureau, and later took up the translation and conduct of the French and German correspondence of that Department. Mrs Neill has had large experience in hospital management, and was for some years superintendent of one of the principal hospitals in Manchester, while her London hospital experiences . brought her into close contact with the grimest aspects of the question— as developed by tbe squalour and poverty of the London poor. Her work in this direction is amply attested by men of the highest professional reputation in Landon, and it is not unlikely that her experience and ability u> a y be turned to good account in connection with the hospitals and asylums of the colony. A loug residence in Germany familiarised her with Socialism in its home, and iot tome time she successfully conducted and eaited an English journal in Dresden As a journalist, I can speak with knowledge of her work, and she can ; write a political article, review a new ! book, criticise an opera or an oratorio, j with facility, judgment and ability. ] B peak with knowledge of tbe lady's career, and am\familiar with her literary work, and as,/ m addition to her very high attainments and practical business qualifications, she has profound synippatbj for the cause of all honest workers — the result of a wide knowledge of the labour problem —the Government muy be congratulated opon an excellent appoiut* ment.