FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4479, 25 July 1893, Page 2

FARM AND GARDEN.

Agricultural Jottings. ' Linseed meal fed to horses will make their coats sleek. Good training will develop many good qualities in a horse. Stock of all kinds piefer salting of hay which is not salted. Suiting prevents waste. It has beon calculated that last year the farmers of Victoria secured a net profit of £250,000 from the butter exportations, and that the amount this year would be doubled. „ It is said 'hat the lay their honey in bladders of wax, about as large as a pigeon's egg, and. not in combs. The bees are stingless, small, and of a black colour, Tho honey is of an oily subslanco and .never hardens. Never sprinkle tomato or any

other vines with any poison liquor when the sun shines, Select acloudy day,or use poison or any insecticide when thosun is in the west, as sprinkling at mid'day when tho sun is hot, will retard the growth of plants, and, in somo instances, kill tliem. The plants become scalded, andiftbey live, only become of but poor growth Oatmeal is and as a food for the convalescent horse is most valuable j the bruising process tho gruin has undergone breaks the husk, and renders it more easily acted upon by the digestive organs. 16 is usually given in the form of a gruel, and in that'form it iaono of the most essential articles of diet for tho infirmary. It is also a ready tnodo of supplying the tired, thirsty horse with nourishment after exertion when he returns to the stable. Pigs mi over one year are best for butcher's pork; older hogs furnish more lard and firmer hams and shoulders. W..D, Hopkins saya trgoofl for curing 100 lbs of meat salt, 3lbs of sugar, or on equal tity of molasses; 2 ozs saltpetre, 1' oz soda and water to make a pickle. Leave the meat in (he brine three weeks and then smoke. If one likes them not very salt; they can simply b& rubbed with the preparation, omitting most of the water, andit/svfealm ' excellent flavour. Tea-treeis beet to smoke with, and care should be taken not to smoke too much, or to heat the tbeat while smoking;.—Ej. , Now that.winter is on us it is better to let bwa alone aa mucin as possible. . See that they havo plenty of stores and then encourage them to be quiet »b possible and breed Very little, They ■ wilLbuild up the quicker in the sprin'e io* it. ~