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The ploughing match season is once more approaching", and as usual the Long Bush Association leads the way, their annual gathering takingplace early next month. The Agent-General has engaged Mr J. A. Gilruth, of Arbroath, Scotland, and Mr J. R. Chalton, Inspector to the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council of Ireland, as official veterinary surgeons for New_ Zealand. A sausage-skin factory is to be started at Masterton by a Mr Turner, a gentleman who has arrived from Germany. The factory will also manufacture fiddle strings, tennis-racquets, and other articles. Owing to the drought in France there is a great want of forage, and French farmers are killing their cattle iu consequence. The Ministry favour a special credit, enabling the Minister of War to encourage the making of potted meats largely from Fx-ench oxen. The import duties on forage have been suspended for three months. The young calves will be very thankful for a small allowance of mixed meal and bran, given once a day. If this is given by hand, in a dish, it will tame the young things and make them so docile that there will be no trouble when the calves grow up to cow’s estate, and must be milked and handled. A heifer comingin should never need to be broken. This training, not breaking, should be done early and when the opportunities are plenty, and if well done there will be no bad habits to- be broken. The care should be to lead the young animals by degrees. from one stage to another to perfect familiarity with its keeper. There will be no vicious or refractory cows in a dairy managed in this way.