AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [From the "Lyttelton Times"]

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 16, 22 September 1883, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [From the " Lyttelton Times" ]

jlt is sa : d that half an ounce of either nitr\te of soda or gluuU'v saludis^ohed in ,\ < ju u't of w.it.'r ,m ' -pni.kle.l ouv 1 cal»^:iir<»s will kill tUv cai'iu^o hoidi. Sulphur is a t*ood con Hineir for piy-*, | an<l they iv"'l it so ureatly that if they ; cannot %el it any oilier wty tii»*y vvil] eat com?, which contains sulphur in largo quantity. There are 10,500 grains of wheat in l! ! > wi-itrht. .in : 630,000 in a bushel of GOlb ', th 'reforo, n i«u*hel of w ♦»«(■ — after di»ductinir 30,0 JU for fwlure* — woni'i fmnisii ft scvil to a'.M/ut etc.» H»fi squire inches, n little over two-thirds- of a square foot, a spice of litilo !<>ss than 12 inches by 9 ino'n"* A run will usually got from 800 to lOOt) iambs during his biiof lifetime. A #00l animal will e«t no mor<> than a poor one, but every one of his progeny as s?oe l- u;vttov< an ? prodtia-rs of mutton will he ttorU) a _ r rvai. 'hvi 1 .hdh 1 th.vi, t-io proi^-ifiy <i< a poor om'. A cow tint is always "u\ 'i«i f from nvntp' oinnMi tor irntation o t o ovaries. The ticaf'uent i tn <^i»vi c<it>'mg ino Uein***, as Epsotn s.xits ono pouu.t, aivl afterwards half-fh'Am 'lost'^ of «{iy:italis twice a day until t .c cxi-itctti Mtfc i> suhjueil. A <^ood c>w li,»s a full eye. asm-ill aicl «hort heail, *lis io\ in { k <» f «cc tn I <iu«U"t» between tho eyes, a soft an 1 lo'.^e - .in 'loop from tho loin ft> t,n. % u-i. {••»•, m ' a Bqu ire i).itr with t^sit^ a i^ooi) dis? m< • from each other an-l on" uhic', ,v i-a miiiccJ. s'lrm'c"* *o a snnli size. 'Co prevent calves uoiu sn : wuh other it is nor.»ss,irv to k<vp them s^p-u'ate, or if sepaiMfe j>>mis are ni>j convenient, to put- a str.ip 4 on-> i t'-r' neck and keep t join tiiM at ,i s.if 5 .li«> ! tance from each other at fee !iii£ an 1 I for a sufHcicnt tim<j, afterwar*. T ■is i> ■ i n iroo'l plan, as it trains them to the i haUer without trouhlc. | If fowls are fe ! more than they w-ill j oat up quickly they will become too fa? j and will couko la)ini?. Gn'e tht^n >\< much aa t)»«y will eat eagerly nu-J no more. Scahled me.il, brau anil m.ishe.l potatoes form an excellent meal for the morninsr feed. Com or solid feei should be given at nitfht. An excellent out door was!) foi buildings is made as follows »• Five pounds of whiting an I two quarts of skimmed milk are stirred into a thin pa<;te ; two and one-hail? ounces of fresh lime, finely powdered, is then sprinkled upon the mixture and well stirred. It u then ready for use. If too thick, add more milk. For fin? inside work the b?st Paris white is used. Salt is almost a necessity to the } eakh of shc<?p m<\ cattle qrijere they do not feed upon salt bearing plants, and tho most convenient way of supplying it is in tho form of rock salt, which is often laid out in tho open in boxes, but by more careful persons iff plnce-J i»n>ler cover where the animals can gat to it. Very careful experiments made in New York |a«t season show that t\\s flat culture of pptofcoes prod«cos fcf»e tho finest tubers and the largest yields. Thi* best results followed tne Dutch j method x>f plauting, which consists of keeping the surface of tno ground lev«l, planting a single eye in a place, covering it six inches deep, and allowing but a single sta}k to grow ia a &H, which »re 8 -foot apart each way. When rem lambs we a month t>ld they be cut. is only one

proper 5 method of doing this. Thi* p'irde should He cut through between {she teMes,, vthwh are then pinched off, and the pur^r*. soon heal:? Up. Som> people, cut off the top of the pnrse, but this method leaves nn «.^J wound, which takes a lone: time to he i \l. It is A common opinion that exposure to ihe sun is injurious to manure, and t'jo opinion is prohably well founded. The <ut\ dries the manure — that #c now — and remove 1 * the »noistur< Vmm i<. This moisture in the manure absorbs whatever ammonia may have been forme! by the decomposition 1 I of the organic matter, and, of course, the vuponr s*o foiMntd carries off wttn it the volatile v uasyous am.uonia. S<» tbftt the expo-nre of ticuiniv to ri»o sun wifch repeated moistening and drying of tlie manurw will in time completely remove ftll the vnln^ble nitrojren in it, from ; whic'i the amni«>ni;i is derived, nnd which i is the most useful part of the m snnre, ! Tnmonr? on the jaws of cattle are usu:dly Crtused by disease of the bone, and are rarely curable. The swelling is hard, m\\\ generally pninful, and when tho pain affects the healfh of the animal l or prevents it from eating it loses flesh, and rapidly hils in condition. Sonh«- j times the swelling ends in a permanent | bony tumour, which is not painful, un<l merely exists ns a blemish. At the ln\i{i lining it is advisable to poultice the swcHing with br.m or (l.ix-soed and with lard a lded until it becomes soft, tlien open if l eenly sin i inj«'rt ft *mrtll quantity of l{> per cent solution of c*ir~ bolic acid. This treatment should be continued as long a^ the tumour suppurates, when it should be dressed with co'.uponn I tincture of benzoin, and healed from t\w bottom before it is allowed t'» close at the opening.

At Montreal recently a student nnuird Vnilluiucourt w is arrested fur orcitin^ u disturbance, in a thoilre in that t-Hv. lie whs defended, ami his enuiw) while mliniUin'jr tin* disturbance, i*hum~'d hi* cli'fit xr.js perfectly ju^tiiied. »s *' drmen " wiuunnunwd and "Li Penchole, 11 which h>»> nnbinilted for >t, w.»s nn ndtnittedly iur *or<il cojnpcv-sitiori. The Court took the sam? view, und said tUnt it %v-is t*k*ur)y proved Umt nn immonl play li til beensubmitt^d i\>r « pore one, iind tint therefore ti»ote }»iv **iU had apcri'ect right to express Htoii djB.i|>(»r<>v«l, lie wanton t<> Kay time if i»e chanced to he present whers such u fl);t'>gti in the {'lays hn.< be^'< Jn.'id« he would think hiin"f}f pe«Pt'ft\ justihed in rU'tna, .\n<\ hiding in any m inner h<* th«»iii;i'if tit to cxpjv-ss- \\\* <{'H-i{>piulmiion. The Vc.uJcmv (it Mu^ie Ootnpunv, he said, f 'il'/ii ti ,tlt t\irht to pi itcotion from th • !.uv u ; 'cti they allowed mien p«ay-« ty ».» prod'Jc'd in tht'ii thedtic. He Aucotdin^ly di>M»t i ««t»d tho vAxn,