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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 20 February 1880, Page 4

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Remember that horses and cattle, young and old, kept in stables and not allowed full liberty during the day, should be regularly cleaned. In this the brush must be the principal cleansing instrument. The curry comb is of no use except to loosen the

scurf and dust. In using it should be laid flat, and worked lightly in circles rather than forward and back. The scurf once loosened, brush with a

quick stroke, cleaning the bristles by passing them lightly over the teeth of the curry comb between strokes. To clean an animal quickly, perfectly, and without giving it pain is a fine art that should be studied more than it is.

It is not good luck that makes good crops, but it is good work. Some farmers' always have good crops, good stock, and get good prices. It is because whatever they put their hands to they do well. They have clean fields, good fences, and do good ploughing, cultivating, and seeding. They farm with brains as well as hands. If other farmers would imitate their examples, they would have better crops. Success does not depend so much upon good luck as it does upon good work. —Chautauqua Farmer.

The Editor of the “ Estate Boll,” in a vigorous letter, points out how much money is wasted on food yielding but little nutriment, and how large a proportion of foreigners’ profit raight.be reduced by an altered plan of home production. To briefly sum up the advice given in this letter we should say—Eat brown bread instead of white ; when the family is large grind your own wheat in a hand mill, eat more oatmeal; eat more beans, pease, artichoke, maize, and rice ; ear more fish and less meat ; and let farmers produce more butter and cheese, more honey, more poultry and more vegetables than they now do. From another source we learn that for foreign onions alone England pays yearly close on half a million sterling.