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Temuka Leader, Issue 300, 5 October 1880, Page 2

Small farms and thorough cultivation will in the long run pay better than hugeareas hastily treated. A spirit distilled from potatoes is now taking the place of brandy in tbft, market, Dairy and hen fruit is the heading

used by an American paper in a report of a * meeting- of the United States Butter,.Cheese, and E„'g Association. Anything for a change. " C<iws Juke and Hen's Nuts" would be still more striking. Every dweller in this land of prolific soil and delightful climate who, owning a bit of ground, has not taken some steps to beautify it by culture of trees '-and flowers, is doirauding himself and the country. Ring-bone is en old-fashioned disease of the horse. The modern practice is to paint with tincture of iodine* Some use a solution of corrosive sublimate —40 grains to one pint of water. Always start a horse with the voice, never with the cut of a whip. In start ing, turn a little sn one side in stopping, when going up a hill do the same. Let us all have a voice in the matter. Noble breeder of Shorthorns : " Well, you are a splendid fellow, and no mistake 1" P«ze bull : "So would you be, my lord, if you could only have chosen your pa and ma as carefully and judiciously as you chose mine." The oleomargarine men are just now speuding.a mint of money in advertising their concoction. Well, they ought to be "able to afford a good round sum, as they sell stuff for butter at prices which costs them about 10 cents a pound, according to some estimates. .