RURALISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 March 1907, Page 4

RURALISM.

Every man should consider himself a sort of pioneer in doing work which will be of benefit to otheTs. It is recommended by a correspondent to a .Scottish paper that sheep and cattle should carry lights when on public roads at night. A motorist suggests that this reform should be extended to pedestrians who annoy the drivers by getting in the way at night. The farm water supply should be cliaroc. terited by time essentials, purity, abundance, and convenience. Every man who trius to be extra smart comes to the time when he smarts for it. It is only by labor that thought can he made healthy, and it is only by thought that labor can be made happy. The best and highest thing a man can do in a day is to sow seed, whether it be a word, an a(t. or on atom. A selection cf the best American horses, including some champion trotters, will be exhibited at the international horse .'how to be held in London next June.

A society of Gorman farmers, in order to stimulate the consumption of milk, have established stimptuousiy-titteel-tip milk-drinking halls in many of the hire, ■ towns of that country. They are proviii" a gTcut success.

ihc art of hedg-cutting U much thought of in the north of England. The- present holder of the champion prize has won 112 prizes and four specials since lie entered thr' lists 26 years ago. The Kansas Experiment Statical lias found that the waste by exposure in six months omoiuils to fully one-lialf of the gross manure from a cow-yard or stable. Said tbo president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association:—"West of us 171 million iutcs of arable hind await the plough. If we cultivate only one quarter of it, our granaries will contain four times the requirements of Great Britain." A fanner and naturalist says of tin mule:—"They are more intelligent than horses, they are hardier, and will live well and have a sleek coat where horses will starve."

The first prize at the Smillineld Show for three Suffolk wethers was won by n pen bred and exhibited by Mr H." E. Smith, The Grange, Ipswich. They were 23 months old, and their live weight wars 2791b each. The Leicester takes part of the credit for the great, success of the Lincoln longwool (writes Aim Mark-lane Express). It did not give the size, for which the Lincoln has always been celebrated,, but it toned down the coarseness which was once a distinguished feature of the breed. You draw your dividend on your cow night and moaning. Your wheat crop may rot, your hag die from cholera, the beef trust may squeeze the profit out of your steers, but the oid cow quietly plods along always doing heir share to make the farm profitable.

The strongest hutchra's shop in the world is found at Fairbanks, Alaska, with-1 in the Arctic circle. The shop is kept open only in winter. Every animal brought in for Bale is, owing to the climate, frozen hard, and stands upon its logs as in life; one might almost fancy it a menagerie. The supply is mainly game, bear and moose being more common than beef beasts. A new milking-machine has just been invented, and is said to be in successful operation at Dayton, Ohio. It is an electric motor, which fastens to the rump of the cow, the electricity being generated by a 6inall dynamo attached to her tail. Shs- switches her tail, the dynamo starts, and by means of a bevel gear and block and tackle, the milk is extracted, strained, and the pail strainer hung'up to dry. A small phonograph accompanies the outfit, and yells "so" owy time the cow moves. If she lifts he foot to kick, a little dingus slides over a whatnot and the phonograph yells ! It she continues to kick, a hinged arm grabs up the milkstool and "lams" her on the back until it. loosrns a patch of skin the size of a dustpan.—Exchange.