THE FARM.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1101, 18 July 1882, Page 4

THE FARM.

)ld and new grass when eaten toether is better for cattle - than all ew. A grape-vine, once established and iken care of, will continue to prouce fruit for twenty years. Shape up your work so that you fill have all your time and energy jr the planting and tillage of your rope. Examine the farm implements now. (There grease has become hardened rith dust, .it may be removed with erosene. Hedges are ornamental and useful, ut if they are left to take care of hemselves, they serve as harbours or weed, obnoxious greases and insets. Horseradish is a profitable crop to row, as it finds sale from five to six ents per pound unprepared. It is ought readily by manufacturers of ie prepared article. Blue grass is somewhat delicate ■hen very young, but after it gets a ood hold it usurps the soil, cleaning at all other grasses. It should not e pastured the first season. Grapes rank among the most healthy nd nutritious of fruit. They ornatent the table and furnish most exsilent food. They are the cheapest ixuries that can be enjoyed on prtna. It has been ascertained that where ggs are sold by the pound they vary t weight’ frojn ono to four ounces, 'he average weight of a dozen eggs i twenty-three and a half ounces. All premises that have been occu. ied by poultry during the winter, jould be thoroughly cleaned. All eats, feed-boxes and fixtures must be rerhauled to remove dirt and lurking teease. Sheep do excellently well on straw, hey seek out the best part of it, and is recommended that straw which is > bo used for litter be first placed beiro sheep so they may get from it the srtion that is valuable ns fodder. Unless .land is very wet, Professor , Earsky finds that potassium salts tercise a very beneficial action, but ey are best as mtnures wheninecmnation with phosphoric and nitrogents substances. Chloride of potisium turned out to be of greater Ivantage than the sulphate.

A reader requests a remedy for excessive sweating in horses. This is usually caused by feeding them with to much corn, and hence the best remedy is to diminish the quantity of com and vary the feeding as much as possible. Some horses, however, are constituionally subject to sweets. If you begin pruning fruit and ornamental trees and shrubbery while young, and follow it up, each year, you can form just such a top as yell want. If your tree needs spreading out cut the young shoots off just above a bud on the outside of a shoot: and if you want to train upward, leave a bud on the upper side of the limb where you cut it off. The best treatment for a mare in foal is to give her moderate exercise daily, care being taken against overexertion. The food should be good clover and timothy hay, well cut and salted, ground oats and a bran mash mixed with potatoes or other roots. Eeed some com or meal, but not too much, in order to guard against milk fever. See that the colt promptly relieves the udder as soon as possible after birth.