MORE FEED WANTED FOR COWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1328, 15 March 1883, Page 2

MORE FEED WANTED FOR COWS.

" It is reported of that extraordinary milker, "The Queen of Barnet," that she made 746 pounds of butter in a year,;and'that her daily rations were four ■[ quarts of bran, four quarts of ground oats;- three quarts of corn meal eight quirts! of carrots, and all the good hay she'could eat. The yield of butter is at least four times the average of good dairy herds, :who jhayemerejy good hay in -winter-Wdifgodd; grassJin summer. What is extra in the feed 6f this cow is the bran, oatmeal corn meal, and carrots, worth on itbe.farm where th'ey are' raited •about' 20 : cents daily. Th¥exWfeed for a year is not far from $73. The extra amount of butter would be 5601b„ worth at one-third of a-- dollara-poM :sjß6. r .Deducting cost of jt l#e sll3 as the profit of, high feeding. Very few cows on our farms are full fedj ;.especiaj}yj .in| winter, -and tho impression is so general that it Will not pay.to do s ,thatjt,is diffiqultio get farmers to make V fixperimentß v m. this dkeptipn/'"j3teelyards \aref oheap, : and the rations above reaoh Qf most daity farn[erß, Try tjja esperiipf oiextra feed on jjue of your best : and?ee# ' ;

.The nugget fouud at the Pieman's dig; (tings', Tasmania, was a much larger one than a late wiegrain mude jt, lis weight was 2430z ldwt, instead 'of 43<>z. We ' learn from the Launcestnn Examiner that it was found on the 23rd of January by three miners, J. M'Ginty, D. Neil, and T. who came over from the Oilier colonies. They were working in one of the creeks falling 1 into the While river forsome eighteen months with varynig BUcceßs. _ On Boxing Day they found a nugget weighing somo 20oz in the hed 1 ' .of the river/ aiid einee then they bnve. ;been very lucky, having quite li number, •of various weights. The larger ones : were .'found baok from the creekisbme sft below the gurface. They never mentioned ''their discoveries to i any! of the other miners, but buried them in the flour of their tent . until their claim was worked out, when th'eyJ' pulled up stakes" and came on to' Launceaton. The' news of tho, discovery ciusedigreat excitement in that city,:and wb'en the nugsels were placed on oxhibition.at the. Town Hall, crowds flocked to see-them...;:-.. , ..• ~;■;.■•_ ■,-, Oivis, in the Otogo Witness, writes :- H A colonial Governor does not govern—- ' biii Ministers end Parlianiont do that—arid he is not required to know anything .'in-particular about colonial politica! r, In- • "•' deeu I ,' the less he knows about them the better. A faculty for making neat after..dinner- speeches will be of more use lo . liim than any knowledge of politica. His ~ funotion.aa the representaliveof tho Crown ■.■ sis.to keep himself religiously olesr of : parties, look dignified, condescend grace- : = fully, and generally keep things pleasant. -■ Hayih'g regard to simplicity of the . /duties and the average' rate of remuneration, I have always regretted that' I was not brought up to the' business myself. However, that is spilt milk. Mr Stout, it is true, promises to procure for us the doubtful privilege of electing our own . Governor, but I find little consolation in ''(that.--'Supposing the privilege obtained, 'Ate .should be called upon to show our gratitude by electing Mr Stout himself, to be succeeded in due course by Sir George ■•v Grey and Mr Macandrew. Aftor them Sk would, follow Mr H. S- Fish and M. W. f Green, andby the lime it had come to V ,s my' turn the offioe would have sunk 100 low for any respectable man to take it." In Sydney recently a man named Simeon lull was charged " that or the 22nd January, in George-street, he did sellito certain persons enclosed packets . which contained goods, and others of which contained money, and the said packets being sold by chance, and such sale being for the benefit of the defendant and not for the purpose of raising funds in aid of any elecmosynery or charitable institution of public oharaoter." The Sydney Morning Herald thus writes on ,the matter :--." It is certainly rather a ; '•' ; atrangely-expressecicbarge, and one which if it means anything, implies that an unlawful act in a private individual becomes a legal and proper act when used for a public charitable purpose, That is to say, the sin of the street vagabond is the law- ; fdl and praiseworthy act of the daintilydressed maiden at tho bazaar. The offender pleaded ignorance, and was fined £U the magistrate at the same time solemnly' informing him that he had rendered. himself liabb to a penalty of flOO," ' Jt has often been noticed by Hospital surgeona/says the Lancet, 'that severe, curjoiis or, out-of-the-way' accidents, seem to occur in groups, but of this no adequate explanation has ever been given, ■WW———»—»—