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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 291, 30 September 1881, Page 4

The average yield of wheat in Victoria for the year 1 SSI was a little short ot ten bushels to the aero. In South Australia, the premier wheat producing district of the Southern Hemisphere, the average was as low as four and a half, while at Canterbury we arc told it was five times as great. The statistics show a production of tl, I 00,0.'10 in Victoria, 4,Ss.>,tbi in Gauterbuiy, and B,COG, 000 in South Australia. The Canterbury Times quotes from the Hamilton Spectator an interesting article on ostrich farming in Victoria. Five years ago the birds (onlysix in number) were removed to the station of Messrs Ofliccr, near Swan Hill, a small town on the Murray in a north-westerly direction from Melbourne at a distance of about 2.10 miles. The ostriches have increased tenfold ; their value is set down at LI2O for each full-grown bird, and the feathers produced each year at Lit). The owners have tested the efficiency of the incubator with very gratifying results. Hye is not much grown in this colony, its principal value being for thatching purposes, as the straw often attains a height of from four to six feet. It is soft ami flexible, and i: much sought after by horsecollar makers. It is useful as a soiling plant, and may be sown in autumn or in spring, together with tares, llie variety known as the “St, .loliu’s Day " rye is the most valuable. It may be sown after harvest, and if kept -fed oil by sheep till the following spring, and then allowed to run to seed, it frequently produces largo yields of twain and straw. It thrives on soils too thin and poor for wheat. Winter rye should be sown the same time as wheat the preparation of the soil and the quantity of seed being the same.— -Vein York Country Journal. An arsenical dip sullieicnt for fifty lambs may be made in this manner'lake three pounds of white arsenic, dissolve in six gallons of boiling water ; then add forty gallons of cold water, .this is a eel tain destroyer of ticks, but must, of course, be used with the greatest care. Another dip, less dangerous, for use in unskilled hands, is this;—l6lb refuse tobacco, boiled in a few gallons of water ; then take three pints oil of tar, 2011) soda ash. -lib soft soap, and dissolve them m boiling wafer; run these and the tobaccowater together, then add enough of water to make up to 50 gallons. It_ should be used at a t'. liiperaturo of about 72 lain