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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 930, 30 January 1871, Page 2

•' Peace hatli its victories no less than war," and Germany is as ready to win laurels in the corn field as in fighting against the Gaul. A certain Dr Carl Mucke claims in the columns of a contemporary, for himself and two other distinguished Germans, to have discovered, not. only the secret of what causes the rust in wheat, but a remedy for the disease. There are not a few intelligent farmers in this colony to whom his remarks must have been very familiar, seeing that nearly all he has to say on the matter is told with many valuable additions, in a, volume of the Rural Cyclopaedia, under the term " Mildew," published many years ago in England, and in which singularly enough, the name of Mucke is not even mentioned. The doctor's advice for checking the rust is rather unique. He suggests that plants affected by the disease should immediately be plucked out, a rather interesting game it may be imagined in a field of 60 or 70 acres of wheat. To eradicate the pest, however, Dr Car.l Mucke suggests a most effective plan, and that is not to sow anything* lest the rust, which he says is in the soil, should destroy the labor of the farmer's hands!

Elder Sister; " Oh, you wicked, bad boy! Put down that pipe directly, or I'll box your ears for you." Juoior brother (who has been smoking): " Box; my ears ! Box ray ears if you dare. I'll go and tell pa you let cousin Jack kiss, you twice behind the door yesterday,"' J^.B. —A truce was agreed upon*