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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 237, 18 July 1877, Page 2

GLEANINGS. [From the Canterbury Times.'] When a cow leaks her milk bathe the teats with spirits of camphor once a week tor four applications. Waste may be prevented until the cure is effected by milking three times a day during good grass season. A Prolific Cow. —Mr Charles Riddle, farmer, Skolmuir, has in his possession a cow, aged fourteen years, which has produced twenty-one calves, having had twins nine times and single calves three times. To prevent sows killing their pigs give the sow three or four slices of fat pork for two or three days before her time for farrowing comes. This is a sure prevention. Do not let the sow get too fat, and keep her bowels loose with potatoes and other light food, Some farmers object to turnips as a food for cows, on account of their giving the milk an unpleasant flavour. This is obviated by feeding them either when milking in the morning, or immediately after milking, and no bad flavour is imparted to the milk .—Otago Witness. Three pens, three hogs each, nearly full grown and about equal iu weight and thriftiness, were fed four months as follows ; —One pen, soaked corn ; one pen, cooked corn meal ; ofte pen, dry corn. At tiie close of the experiment, (hose fed on dry corn had made .the most weight.— The Producer. Lumps are very common on aged rams, both. Lincolns and Lcicesters, and they are easily removed. ’Fake a sharp knife and cut the lump open, squeeze the matter out (it is generally a hard yellowish lookingmatter), and. if done in spring, the cut will heal up without any dressing. The farmer should pride himself upon his well-kept and productive garden. Do not cling to the idea that yon must retain the same old spot used by your father and grandfather, but strike out for some new location, away from the buildings, and where the vegetables can be sowed in long rows, and then a horse and cultivator can' be used to keep down the weeds—thus enabling you to save a deal of labour, while you can raise much better crops.— N.E. Farmer.

NOT TO BE MARRIED AVA. To what dregs must not tin: man have drunk of the clip of the ■■•d- cted by women, before ho could in btse revenge sit clown in cold blood ami pen the following libelling stanzas ? “ Alas ! for (ho rarity of CarLtian charily under the sun !” Oil dear, I am now thirty-six, Tho 1 some rather mair wad mo ca’, And anc just sao run 1 {<> get married, lias little or nac chanco ava. And when I think upon this, Lang sighs from my bos,mi I draw ; Oh ! is it not awin’ to flunk, I’m no to be married ava. No to be marri-'i! ava ? No to be married ava ; Oh ! is it not awfn’ to think, I’m no to be married ava? For ilka young lass that can boast That she has a lover or twa, Will hand out her finger and say, That bodie has got nane ava. And then when they a’ got married, Their husband will lot them gang braw, While limy laugh at aulds maid like misel’, For no getting married ava. No to bo married ava, &c. Some wives that are maisters o’ men, Wear dime naething Jess than their twa ; But this I wad hand as a crime, That aught to be punished by law. For are (hey no muckle to blame, When they to themselves they take a’ ; Ne’er thinking o’ many an aukl maid, That’s no to be married ava ? No to be married ava, &c. But as for the men that get married, Although it were some ayonttwa, I thins: they should aye be respekit, For helping sao mony awa. But a-, for the auld bachelor bodies, Their necks every ane I could thraw, For nocht is the use of: their lives, No to be married ava. No to be married ava, &c. Oh ! gin I could get but a husband. Although ho were ever sae ana' ; Or, be what he like, I wad tak’ him Though scarce like a mannie ava, Come souter, come tailor, come tinkler, Oh come but and tak’ me awa ; Oh ! gie me a bodie ne’er sae little, I’ll tak’ it, and never say na. No to be married ava, &c. Como docf, or come dumb, or come cripple, Wi ae log, or nae leg ava ; Or, come wi ae ee, or nae ec, I’ll tak’ ye as ready’s wi twa. Come young, or come auld, or come doited; Or come ony ane o’ ye a’, Far better be married to something, Than no to be married ava No to be married ava, &c. Now lads, au thur’s ony aiming ye, Wad like just upon me to ca’, You’il find mo no ill to bo coorted, For shyne’s I hae put awa. And if you should want a bit wifee, Ye’ll ken to what quarter to draw ; And, e’en should we no mak’ a bargain, We’ll aye got a kissio or twa. No to be married ava. &c.

THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. He stood on a chair in the dusk of the evening, and as a crowd gathered be began :— u Wine is a mocker—strung drink is raging. The Lord made cold water — Satan made whiskey I” (Pause.) “ Let me tel! you what I saw. Last niirht I saw a white-headed old man at the bar. I pleaded with him to come away, hut he was deaf to my words He filled a glass with deadly liquor, and as it went gurgling down his throat I said to him, ‘ Old man, thou art doomed ?’ He laughed a cynical laugh, and he cursed me—ay ! cursed the man who sought to save him !” (Commotion in the crowd.) “ This morning,” continued the man, “ I was at the morgue, where the unknown dead rest on the cold slab's. I did not think that my words of the night before would come back to me with sucli awful significance.” (Crowd grew closer.) “ I looked through the glass door, and, my hearers, what do you think I saw on the cold slabs before me?” “The old man !” shouted twenty voices in chorus. No, my friends,” continued the man, as he stepped down, “ I didn’t see a thing!” Several men chased him, hut he made good his escape.

Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the district. R. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. ■' He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial houses ; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality at pi ices that cannot be improved on by any other bouse in New .Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address — R. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hail, Carlyle.— advt.

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