Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4463, 16 September 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

Iff The Mataura dairy factory experi- | raced a record season.last year. The Ijmitput of oheese amounted to 308 lions and the cash paid for milk £l4, ||344. The price paid for butter-fat [ was Is 2d up till the end of April, land Is for the balance of the season. iThe cheese sold represented receipts amounting to £15,279, and the pay* ment of a 6 per cent, dividend is recommended.

/ There are now a quarter of a million dairy cattle in the North Coast / districts of New South ‘Wales, and v more than half a million in the whole area, of which 120,000 are on the South Coast, 150,000 in the district of the Hunter and the Manning. I The total number of dairy cattle is ■: .775,491. The butter production in New South Wales in ten years increased from 31£ to 61£ million lb, and bacon and hams from 7 to 9 million lb.

i- Economical Housekeepers are now preparing to put down their supplies of preserved eggs. There is no preservalive like Sharland’s Moa Brandy Egg | Preservative/ None has its long history || of unqualified success —it never fails to / keep fresh eggs sweet and good. At all stores. See that the fall name is on the

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It is well known to farmers, an exchange remarks, that cows sometimes take a great fancy to chewing [vat bones, and occasionally get choked rin their efforts at swallowing them. A farmer near Stratford recently lost a cow that fell a victim to its nn- | natural appetite. He held a post / mortem examination, and discovered that the cow had ohoked herself in an v endeavour to swallow the skull of a lamb, which she had picked up in the paddook. This fancy for bones on the part of the cow is rather peculiar, but not at all uncommon. A cow will sometimes spend hours in sucking and chewing a bone, quite heedless of the / succulent pasture by which she may be surrounded. The United States Department of Agriculture some time ago described some tests upon a quantity of live hots taken from a horse which had been killed by them. Put into sage tea they died in 15 hours. This being too slow they were tried with nitric Acid, but that seemed to trouble them no more than water Then they were put into an infusion of tansy, that Stilled them in one minute. A horse

suspected of being tronbled with bots was given some tansy tea in the morning* and a dose of salts in the evening. Hie next morning the horse’s excrement contained 1£ pints of the bots, and the core, after repeated trials, is Y2iow said to be recognised as thor- • Oughly effective. BRONCHITIS. Otahuhu, August 20th, 1909.—1, John Arthurs, declare 1 have suffered from Bronchitis, for two years and four months, and have been under four doctors during that time. Their fuedidine has done me no good at all I got a bottle of Nazol, and after the ; first dose I got relief} and, after continuing its use for a few days, I was quite cured of Bronchitis} and can now go to bed at night and sleep comfortably, whioh I could not do before for the last two years and four months, as I ■ have had to sleep in my armchair at the flresid*. It gives me pleasure instating the great benefit I nave derived from using Nazal.— Yours, etc., John Abthubs.