FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4449, 20 June 1893, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

Clipp'wq. m-JFhom the AoMcuiJunisr,] Now that winter is upon us, horse owners •sill be subjecting their ammalslo the operation ol "clipping." The town horso is usually the subject, but formers whobesiow proper attention on t'teir horses will find it advaotajjcoi'j. Somo stock-owners do not believe in either its utility or reasonableness. TYhat is the ntHorniieol clipping? Tho hair maint, 'ns the heat ot the body, preventing too rapid eiapoialioa, aud acting as a protector, flair is a bad conductor of heat, but when wet bcomes a conductor; horses coniiu;! in from work with a wet skid oit tiaies do not dry tor hours, in some cases ovcu teroainin'! wet all thus al'owing too free evaporation of aniiral heai ami exposinj them to the lisk ot co'd and chest diseases; clipping cortainly reduces these risks. Further, a laving in fodder is a result; clipped horses will do well on the same quaniiiy of food that those not clipped wiil lose condition on. Ii the sweat of the horso be analysed, it will be found to contain accrtaiu quantity ol protcid matter, kA as animals which sweat freely at work lose conditiou largely on this accooul, clippiu", to a fc.'eat extent will prevent this loss, l!ul il yon clip your horse every atintion must be \)tii\iojjjfaimlor; and health, sons io protecthirauomcold wi.irhand rains, which naturally win bcfeHnu'ch more keenly alter iho loss ol iis natural protector. The hair clipped from n draught horso will weigh asmucb as seven or eight pounds, whilo thrt irom a thoroughbred will bo 10 oz. or even less. To dry a hofco's coal place under the stircinjjlebelweeniheruj and skin onboth sides, a knot ol dry straw.

A Veterinary Feat. A notablo veterinary feat was recently performed with most successful results, by Principal Wi'iianin, of the New Vetciinary Collie, Edinburgh. The Ballinil&'lojh-' bred bull, Enthusiast, that carried premier honors at the Highland show at Inverness, where he was purchased by Mr Patrick Chalmers, Aldbar, Forfanhue.forthe ferent price of 250jns,, was discovered on the j very day alier he was delivered io Mr Chalmers to have a email tumor i 1 his throat, and this tumor coaiinued growing rapidly, A numbers of eminent veterinary experts who examined the animal for Mr Chalmers, were unanimous in affirming that the tumor was ol a tuberculous native, and » it seemed as it the lu'l would have to be lulled as a "piuer." On the other band Principal Williams, who wasactinjfor Sir George Macpherson Grant, of Ballindalloch, affirmed that the tumor was not tnberculons but was a case of anitimycosis, a nonhereditary disease ot very raro occurrence, in which the tumor is caused by the presence of a lungui called the "ray fuujus." Principal W'lliams. was confident that he could salely perform the difficult operation of cutting out the tumor, and the animal was bought to the New Veterinary College for that pfpose. The operation was successfully performed, aud this valuable bull is making a rapid recovery, - •mjfmiltural Progress, Twenty farmers out of five hundred do not justly agricultural reporters iu saving that colonial farming is advancing by leaps and bounds, The other 463 bdiovo that scientific farming is useless, so long as the soil is virgin, What an every day mistake I

The Cork Oak,

Tho cultivation of the cork oak in New Zealand is strongly recommended by a coriesp«ndent of the Olago Witness. The miter asseils that this member of the oak family ii the most valuable tree for plantations known, and he contiuues:—' That the cork oak would flourish in almost any part of New Zealand is ceitain, and there arc lew trees in the co'ony which have made suoh great progress as specimens of the cork oak which have been planted, It must be borne in mind thut it is an evergreen, and would make very supeiior ornamental shelter—better, in fact, than almost any tree that has teen imported. If forests were planted by societies and individua'.s they would become a source of wealth both to the country and to the individual who had planted them, After ic has been sown or planted there is no further trouble or exj jnse Attached to it till such time as its valuable hart is matured, It flourishes in the most sterile or stony ground, and would p'ove n remunerative investment for '.hose who possess ground that is absolutely unfit for other purposes. Presuming tho same quantity of cork tree acorns had been gum seed, sufffcicnk cork, or corkwood as it !s commercially called, woii'd have been stripped ere this irom tho trees to supply a number of cork-cuttiug factories In New Zealand, giving employment to hundreds of men, women, and boys making corks not only for our owu use, bui also for export. Proprietors of property who aro not over 40 years of age would in all probability live to reap the benefit of having planted a few acres, rnd for the timely expenditure of a lew pounds they would get a return of many hundred fold. Others over that ago might get some- return for their outlay in the shape of a few crops of corkwood, and leave a most valuable legacy to their descendants for five or six generations Rathe trees live2ooyears or more with- ' out any expenditure in the shape of cultivation or carctaking,'