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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 303, 28 October 1881, Page 4

Wash for Outbuildings. Professor Kedx.ie, of the Agricultural College of Michigan, an expert chemist, recently said that a paint or wash made of skim milk, thorougnly skimmed and water brine will render wood uninllamable, and he proved it by experiment. Flc said this paint or whitewash is durable, very cheap, impervious to water, of agreeable color, and, as it will prevent wood from taking lire, urged its use, particularly on roofs, outbuildings, barns, &c.— Jfiirul Maw Yorker. Mr It. W. Itundle, of Pladstow, Cornwall, has a ewe which dropped two lambs January 2nd, IST'-k two on November Ist, 1.570, three on May Ist, ISSO, and three January ,30th, ISSI, together, ten lambs in two years and one month. All the lambs are doing well, seven of them having been reared by the ewe. —Murk Luna Exjirc«A. Opinions differ as to the best time of sowing turnips. Some think that they should be sown as early ns possible after the white crops are in, while others think that the month of December is quite soon enough. In either case much depends on the amount of rainfall, hence the uncertainty in turnip growing. Many farmers will now he breaking up liew land to lie fallow through the summer, to he cross ploughed for,autumn wheat. If possible a crop of turnips or rape should be got from this land, for it is generally considered that a grern crop will leave the land in better order for wheat than a naked or hare summer fallow. A Canadian correspondent of the Srirn/!/}r Amariom gives the following simple remedy for scratches in horses : —“ Having tried many lotions, Ac., only to obtain temporary relief for my horse, I concluded to try a mixture of flour of sulphur and glycerine, which I mixed into a paste, using sufficient glycerine to give it a glossy appearance, and the results 1 obtained in a j short time were truly wonderful. I apply this paste at night, and in the morning before going out 1 apply plain glycerine.” To Caleb Rats.—Cover a common barrel T, stout paper, tying the edge round 1 ; place a board so that the rats j may have easy accesses to the top ; sprinkle I cheese parings or other feed for the rats on j the paper for several days until they begin j to think that they have a right to their j daily rations from this source : then place j in the bottom of the. barrel a piece of rock | about (iin. or Tin. high, tilling with water ! until only enough of it projects above the j water for one rat to lodge upon. Now replace the paper, first cutting a cross in the middle, and the first rat that comes on the barrel top goes through into the water, and climbs on the rack. The paper comes back t'> ns original position, and the second rat follows the firs*. Then begins a light for the dry place oil the stone, the noise of which attracts the others, who share the same late,