MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS.

The periodical occurrence of diseases iv c^tock has caused' many practical graziers to consider the question *kbefch6r ii&le 1 roi'atioti of crops, which is one of the conditions o( successful farming, may not be extended with equaiJfenef&to- stock-raising. Ex penance seems to < prove that, when sheep have been kept on some runs for a certain number of years, an unknown condition seems to operate in producing ufifaealthiriees, and' the same' has been remarked in the case of. cattle. Scab appears to be ever present with us, but of late the spread of fluke in sheep lias been something alarming. In [like manner, we had thepleuro and Cumberland disease in cattle some years ago, when it was found necessary to restock many runs with sheep. Of codree^the market prices have a good deal.tojlo with the operations of the graziers. So long as wool and mutton keep up to their present value, there will be' an unwillingness to replace sheep with other stock, but there has been a corresponding increase in the quotations for cattle, bullocks being now worth £13 per head and upwards. It is a subject for discussion, whether owners of country where unhealthiuess has become chronic, should not give up the fruitless struggle with disease, and 'substitute cattle for sheep, repeating the change say every seven years, or as often as circumstances might render it expedient. — "Hamilton Spectator."

The "Wellington Post" ha 8 the following: — "Military glory is of brief duration. The men who risk their lives in our defence, who carry, us safely per acuta belli are forgotten in -few . short montha-after their services have been dispensed, with. . Our contemporary, this V?i?" n g> informs us thai a petition was. presented to the House last night, < frPtn tf .one ; McDonnell," claiming consideration for services as a ; military settler. '/ One .McDonnell !" Can this.be the^man upon whose acj count Mr. Fox violently denounced Mr. ; Stafford in 1869, the man whom Mr. ,Fox exalted os the saviour of this country^ and- whom he hoped "yet to •see carrying his sword at the head of the colonial forces?" Pew persons outside of printing offices know the importance of " proof reading " — that is, the careful revision of the type after it is set up, for the purpose of removing wrong letters, etc. For example, a miserably scrawled marriage notice is handed in,- which ought to read as follows :—: — Married, on August, Ist, A. Conkey. Esq., Attorney -at - Law, to Miss Ephumia Wiggins. "Love is tbe union of two he*rta that beat in sof«Bfc melody. Time with its ravages imparts no bitter fusion - to its-ecstacy." The notice is handed to the compositor, or type setter, whose rapid fingers fly among the little type boxes for a brief space. A " proof," or first print, is 'then taken of the type, and the proof-reader has the following version before him :—: — Married, on August Ist, A. Donkey, Esq., Eternally at Law, to Miss Euphunia Priggins. "Jove is an onion with two heads that beat in sofest melody, Time with its cabbages imparts no better food to an extra dray."