MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 5 July 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

"A slump in prices of fat stock is re- : ported from Wairarapa, partly on acutint of glutted meat stores, but chiefly owing to great scarcity of feed. store cattle are a drag on the market. •J; sales during the.past few days :.\ -year-old steers, which a few week:. :;j would lave brought from £lO to 12, were difficult of sale at - V M. while ■ line of forward store cattle which earlier in the season would easily ha t .ealised £lB to £2O, did not find a purlaser. Hundreds -of head of cattle ave been passed in at sales during the rnst week, as the bidding was nut arly up to what was considered the ■arket value. Sheep are faring but tie better.. Some of the best Runv . y ewes submitted this season only rought -">s to oos —animals which » ow weeks ago would have commanded ithout difficulty 40s to 60s. The cold winter of 1340 gave the oruforting blanket to England, and : .ftcrwards to the rest of the world. ts inventor, Thomas Biaaquet. was a , Tcmish merchant, settled in Bristol. vho had fallen from ufflcuee into want. | ;ie and his wife were suffering from ; ntense cold by reason of scanty bedling and lack of fuel. He searched for something, to put on the bed to increase the warmth, and hit upon a oicce of cough, unfinished cloth that had been thrown aside. Its success as i warmth-giver suggested the 'niauu- i ,-acture of special bed covers of the ! anio materia], and these articles, to ! vhicli he gave his own name, won him .voalth and immortality. If you have the worry habit, you owe j .our mind and body apology and re- , jiayation. Can you recall or conceive •if any situation being improved by * .vorrying over it.' True enough, it is Jsj nuch easier to counsel against worry ' ?' :l.aii it is to refrain from it. Bui lie y. who wills it down and reasons the | natter will find that, far from accom- | plishing any benefit, fuming and fret- <?. tin™ aggravates the conditions from ■!: ivliich they spring and give birth to a S multiple <>f new concerns. Keep this g fact in mind always when you are at- |j tacked by inclination to fretfulness 1 ' | and worry, and you will avoid many S unhappy hours—also you will conserve : * your bodily energies for much more ' }l useful and enjoyable purpose-. No h achievement in the fields of art, litcra- , ij tare, commerce, or uplifting humanity ig was ever accomplished through worry ,| or fret. AVorry is a disintegrating f force. i g Shea butter is made from Iht fat IS of a nut of Western tropical Africa. I g The shea tree, -which may reacL a | height of 40 feet when net stunted b\ 3 bush tires begins bearing when twelve 3 or fifteen years old, and its very vari- | * able yield is said to reach sometimes ; .-• as many as -0,000 nuts. A thick cover- I £ ing of pulp encases the nuts, which are ( •;; smooth-shelled and of walnut-like size 7and shape. The kernels when, dried S contain 40 to 60 per cent of the oil, but . ( for extracting a pound of-batter the j I natives inquire six pounds<of deeorti- ' | rated kernels, which rcquiremeni is re- ! | duced bv Eropeau machine) v to three ; 5 pounds, equivalent to fourteen pounds | of fresh fruit in the pulp. Sheat butter i i |! is used by the natives as an unguent \ ! !j in rheumatic pains. When purified it Ij I is edible, and is suitable for artificial f butter, chocolate manufactures, etc., and is also somewhat adapted for use j in candles and soaps. According to the London "Times."! such an apparently trifling thing as an j anthill two feet high wrought final j disaster to the attempted aeroplane flight from Cairo to the Cape organI ised by that journal. When taking off from Tabora, a railway junction in j "German" Last Africa, one of the en- . gines -topped running, the machine !ran downhill at sixty miles an hour, .-truck the anthill, ''hard a- concrete," and that was the end of the Vickers- > Vimy-Kolls machine -o far as its i African flight wa« concerned. "We have never bandied so much money for years," said the manager of a large business house at Christchurch. "Our turnover this year will be a record. People are getting'better prices for their goods and labour, and the result is improved trade all round. Perhaps the land transactions of the last twelve months Lav. soiuething to. L do with it. I expect a few speculators will burn their fingers sooner or later, but that won't mean any tightening ■' up. The world is hungry, and New Zealanu has the goods. There is nothing to frighten me irr our book debts. " Our clients, big and small, pay ur> promptly when the bills go out; there is less grumbling, and less delay than ' before the war. Bad marks aie fairly scarce too." 1 A King Country man who recently visited Taranaki ias informed the '' Taumarumli Press'' that cows, J cheese..ami butter have caused land to . go up to an extraordinary value. Some 2 farm land in the vicinity of Hawera. has sold at £220 per acre, and is likely to reach £230. At those prices, how--1 ever, the land is required in small areas mainly by farmers who have sold ou: or. retired, but who cannot forsake j old habits. Still £ISO per sere has 1 been given for land actually required ' for farming for profit, bat this is the 1 limit for the present. Big.mortgages : ■are often associated with, these deals. ! ' and many think a tTne of reckoning must come sooner or later. At the pre- ; ! sent time, it must be confused. Tara- - ' naki has ail the indications of being * very prosperous. " |<