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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 229, 20 June 1877, Page 2

GLEANINGS. (From the Canterbury Times.) Hilling potatoes will give more bushels per acre than any liat culture, however nice. To correct a sour swamp, lime is fcho best thing in use. Either rock or shell lime will do. Too many French farmers invested in the beet sugar interest in the North of France, and the result is a groat loss. A valuable mare in foal, belonging to Mrs Turnbull,, of Scalesceugh, Cumberland, was poisoned by eating some of the foliage of a yew tree. No less than 185 bags of grain were last week threshed, within five hours, at Mr Geo. Wilson’s Narrowdales farm, in the Tokmnaiiii’o district. The average yield per acre was 90 bushels,- which is the largest heard of as yet this season. Pigs can be cured of what is known as blind staggers by cutting a gash in the scalp, and rubbing the opening with pepper and salt, or powdered camphor. Cures have been thus wrought when the hog was nearly dead. Ploughing an orchard Is of as much importance as pruning; it amounts to root pruning. By manuring with a little salt and watering with lime water, a farmer in America raised good cabbages for fifteen years on the same lot. For ridding trees of insects rise potash dissolved in water. It may be used very strong on the trunks of trees, but for twigs, and tender blades, it should bo largely diluted. The best soil for most flowers, and especially for young plants, and one almost absolutely necessary tor seed beds, is a rich mellow loam, cantaining so much sand that it will not “ bake ’ after hard showers.— Vick. Brahmas should bo hatched early or not at all. Late ones never pay well. Never throw feed for chickens on the ground, as fowls get filth mixed with while eating. Give your poultry plenty of pure water, and sand or gravel, and they will be less liable to become diseased. Set your chicken lot full of damson and plum trees. Keeping poultry among plum trees is a sure remedy for curculios. To prevent liens from laying softshelied eggs, provide them with plenty of ground bones and oyster shells. To kill lice in poultry, mix equal parts of sulphur and lard and put on the head and under the wings. Used thus on a hen that is hovering chickens, it will keep the chicks clear of the pest. Cut grooves in the roost poles and fill with coal oil and sulphur and the chickens will not be troubled with lice.

The Poverty Bay Standard , referring to uneasiness shown by some settlers in the district on account of rumours that certain maoris had been in communication with Te Kooti, and that it was within the limit of probability that unpleasant results might follow, says “ The settlers think tnat they are in a defenceless state should there be any sudden hostile attack. We can assure them this is really not the case. In the first place there are several hundred stands of arms of the best kind, together with abundance of ammunition. Second, that the Militia Act is in force ; third, that there is telegraphic communication to all the principal centres or the colony ] fourth, that we are fix close communication with most of the well known friendly tribes ; fifth, should Te Kooti or any other chief attempt to make himself and his followers troublesome,- we could bring several thousand armed and disciplined men into the bay at a few hours notice, and make it hotter for them than they will care for.The Government is not unapprised of all that is going on in the native distxicts and* not unprepared for any emergency.”