GLEANINGS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume I, Issue 85, 13 January 1880, Page 4

GLEANINGS.

A good method of keeping rabbits from trees is to take a bar of ordinary washing soap and a little water and rub the soap on the tree until you have a good dry soapy covering, which will last, in anything like fine weather, for at least a year, to keep the tree so that no rabbit will touch it. Crossing common poultry with pure bred cocks, is generally found beneficial, if the breed is well chosen. To cross Leghorns or Games, in the hope of getting large fowls, for instance, would lead to failure; and the egg producing fowls, such as Leghorns, Hamburgs, and Black Spanish, crossed on native hens, do not improve the kind at all. The best breed for improving common fowls, is the Light Brahma ; this cross produces a large early maturing fowl, and good layers of eggs. An authority on horses writes to the London Agricultural Gazette “ I can almost challenge the seller on: the point whether the horse has carried a lady by observing the unequal wear of the forelegs—-the near leg in cantering bearing all the concussion is often very looped, if not archy, in comparison.” No medicine is such a complete specific for insects and other parasites on animals and fowls as the dust, and finest dust that can be procured, coal ashes being excellent for the purpose. Nothing is more preservative of the health of animals than dust, and in summer, when it can be procured by them without the aid of man, they always do best. It should be well sprinkled and freely scattered from the head to the tail, along the backbone, using in abundance of this most excellent and cheapest of all cattle medicines.

An old New-England practice was to apply a good coat of whitewash to orchard and shade trees every spring. This, together -with the fashion of white painted houses with green blinds, has been recklessly abused by modem reformers, who have objected to paint on wood on the inside of houses, and have advocated the bare surfaces oiled and varnished as being more consistent with truth and honesty of appearance. But lime wash has other uses than for appearance’s sake, and it might have been spared foy itsutility. It removes moss from trees, kills bark lice and eggs of insects, destroys fungi, and renovatesthe appearance and health of the bark, and its use is therefore to be advised rather than objected to. The cleanly appearance and smoothness of the bark after the lime has been washed off by a few rains is noteworthy, and the lime washed down to the soil is doubtless of much use as a fertilizer for the trees. The practice should not therefore fall into disuse because some persons who own no trees fancy they dislike it.

The size of the milk house must of course be regulated according to circumstances. bout 20 feet by 16 feet is the usual size recommended for a dairy of 40 cows, but under any condition it is not well to be sparing of space in this respect.

Holloway's Pills.— For Indigestion Stomach and Liver Complaints.—Persona suffering from any derangement of the liver, stomach or the organa of digestion, should have recourse to Holloway’s Pills, as there is no medicine known thatacts on these particular complaints with such certain success. They strengthen the tone of the stomach, increase the appetite, purify the blood, and conrect depraved secretions. In bowel complaints, they remove all morbid humours, and soon restore the patient to sound health; nervous or sick headaches, and depression of spirits may be speedily removed by these. Pills. They are composed of rare balsams without the admixture of a grain of mercury or any noxious substance, and are as safe as they are efficacious.