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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 547, 30 January 1868, Page 2

Fowls Utilised A method of tnrtkinjj use of fowls, recently devhed in Franco, h said to be of great aoricnU ural value. An old omnibus is fitted up with nest-boxes and perches, and it is proposed that such a machine should be kept on every farm well filled with fowls, and should be transferred every day to the spot where the most active fanning operations are bein ,T carried on. The fowls would then follow the plough and harrow, clear the laud thoroughly of fly and worm, pick up ail the stray grain after harvest, keep themselves high in health, and feed themselves without cost A Needle Stout. —A curious case came under the no‘icc of a medical gentleman at !tho Durham Lead a few days ago. A ladv | called on Mr Brown, surgeon, to consult [him about an infant, nine months old. She stated that when washing the child that j morning she had felt something hard, and [about two inches in length, over the'rcgion of the left kidney. Mr Brown examined the child, and found no external inflammation or redness, but could distmctly trace a hard, thin, and long substance, imbedded in the muscles. He cut down to it, and to his surprise found that it was a glover’s needle, very black, and much corroded. It was so rotten that he is ad to extract it piecemeal. Neither the mother nor the nurse had noticed any unusual symptoms before that morning, and no explanation can be given as to how the needle got into the body of so young a child.—Ballarat