NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1335, 24 March 1883, Page 2

NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

.. To commence jinused oats' and bran, but'ias'afoaTgrows more accus- • tpmed to dry;, food cease the braHjand 1 ";'; ■" give-oats, maize, beans;:and chafe as ■■■■- may bethought advisable.. ;'■■■'[ The Polled Angus, or hornless are preferred by: many;' beteftitlieifflj^! is; less danger of •'injury during 5 traiiw^' portation and. while running at pastured If it is an advantage to 'breed "the horns away fromi the* cattle; the; sained should be done with rams, as manyobjections' can 1 be;urged .against'-the •• (-S usefulness of horns in sheep. *'* '.. Some of.thefinest'beef we, eyer^,.';, tasted was from .old cows.'. These.-- ; 1 animals, when they had ceased toifl-V profitable in the dairy, were left to go V '"' dry and run down were taken in'-hand, and, by judicious r> aud liberal feeding, .fattened quickly, the result being tenderVjiiicy, and fine.'.; : -,, beef, desirable alike when, fresh:oe« when cured, andirithe form of dried 1 ■■<■'' beef or just from the pickle.' •■""' . ■■]' Nearly all of tho breachy cattle have ~'.', been' made so, at some time.of their'.. 1 lives, by lmvingjpoor. /fences' on tlw ' : •' .farm. ; The. animals sooti learn to ;v break, they work at it till it gives way, 1',," Those who raiseitheir own cattle need " ; C never fear of having breachy cattle, if ■ <■'■ they, always see to having good, strong ';.i fences wherever the cattle are confined.' To the question which is the better':,; ; way to feed mea), wet or dryHhe .;• answer is, there is no difference. The " simple fact of wetting meal with cold water is no advantage. If soaked till l ; near the point of souring, or wet with ■ boiling water and fed , when. cooled, digestion would doubtless be facilitated. The best way to feed meal to .cattle I have ever tried is to take hay orcoarse/i; fodder, either cut-cir long; and. 'wet' a | it enough to make the meal ; wlnch is to be fed to stick to it. In eating the coarse fodder the meal goes with it into the paunch, where it remains to soak and prepare for digestion, till it is re-masiicatedj when it. goes into the third and fourth stomachs; to have digestion completed. If eaten alone, it, as a rule, goes at once into- the third and fourth stomachs, and misses entirely the preparation it might have ' '"\ had if it had first gone into the paunch with the coarse fodder. There is an estimated difference of 25 per cent in favour of feeding meal with wet fodder over feeding it alone to grown cattle.

. Mi' L. L Smith has received letters by the English mail informing him that the provincial Council of Rome have decided to vote 500,000 francs towards an international exhibition to !be held at Home next year, The Italian Parliament will, during the present session, pass the necessary Act to control the enterprise. ■ Jn Germany, when a big " battue" is given the game is driven into boarded circus from which them is no escape and then shot down without mercy, and we may say" without, sport,; ;\Ve would sooner bag one poor brace of partridges during a whole; day's stump over the stubble than slaughter 428 head of deer as was done the other, day by indiscriminate " firing into the brown." It is stated that the Government contemplate the expenditure of upwards of .£50,000 on the erection of barracks for the accommodation of convicts to be engaged'in the construction of the harbor of refuge at Dover. ■;