FACT IN SHEEP RAISING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 205, 16 September 1874, Page 2

FACT IN SHEEP RAISING.

It is a constant physiological result that with a given race, the less the skeleton is developed the longer becomes the staple of the fleece. Such, then, are the new characters deduced physiologically, one from the other; a more cylindrical structure ; a diminution in the volume of the bone ; the disappearance of the folds of the skin ; a suppression of the horn; a very notable contraction of the head and of the deformities which dishonored it -. a descent of the wool upon the parts of the body where it had neither quality nor value ; the choice pieces, the sides (coteletes) and legs, become more marked and acquire more weight; the wool of medium quality becomes more abundant, and is at the same time soft and long ; the growth of the animal is more rapid ; the fattening more easy ; the return of flesh greater, and the quality more appreciable.

The Tuapeka Tinies gives the following eantion to persons using mottled soup :— Two cases of blood-poisoning, attributed to the nee of bine mottled soap have taken place in the neighborhood of Havelock within the last fortnight. We should therefore caution the public from using that article until the ingredients of its composition are more to be depended upon.” The recent death of an English Government clerk, who, according to medical evidence, must have died from syncope, induced by heavy smoking while the stomach was empty, causes the Lancet to say : —“ We have never underrated the danger to which immoderate smokers are liable- Fortunately, the poisons contained in tobacco smoke find a realty exit from the system, but when inhaled during a period of fasting, their injurious effect on the heart is especially to be apprehended.”