FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4675, 21 March 1894, Page 2

FARM AND GARDEN.

, Commenting on a Manitoba report that Lord Polwarth hud sold a ram for £2,000 the Ncrlh British Agrwub turist says that the highest price ever paid for a Polwarth ram at'a. publio sale was £195, in 1873.

The., latest disinfectant is common soot, It is said to be a great genii killer, to absorb fonl gases, and to ba a preventative of Cholei&T.; It is superior to charcoal, end it contains some of the unoxidised hydro-carbpn? formed in the smoke from burning coal, among thein creosote, whieh is a great germ destroyer.

An English dairy company in Bombay is offering to place Indian butter on the London imrket at' Od per lb, free of all charges, A trial shipment has been ordered.

Have the thermometers in your dairy aoourate. . A large quantity of those eold contain more or less air in the mercury tube. To test a thermometer turn it upside down, and if the merenry will glide quickly the entire length of the tubeit ia all right,

It is very instructing to look at tba interior of)a cream separator after it has been at work for a coupkof hours, The/walls of the bowl otb.. covered witU a mass ol slirao and diift,' sometimes | quarter of an inch thick, A great deajbf it isalbuminousmatter, blood, eto, If the milk had been set" in a nan, the dirt would not have been founu, but tbe separator takes out all of Ibis, and the cream and skimmed mgk are both absolutely . clean. . I [ Cattle and horses of all bges, whild at pasture in summer, need some sorb ' of shade to which they can retreat for refuge against the eoorohihg rays of ! the midday sun;it is better to leave treeß where they are standing, even at the cost of a little less luxuriant growth of graßa, than to cut them down. Experiments have lately been made in New Zealand to see if the food ' value of compressed fodder Is equal tothat of the fresh food. The results go to show that the fodder does not suffer any deterioration from being ao treated, aad is much more convientldl handled, this being not,the least in i* favour with those ooncerned,

Apples from a tree grafted upon the pear were contributed to the reoent exhibition of the Hawarden Horticultural Society by Wm., Saanders. Esq., M.P. The pear tree had.; never born pears, although twenty years - old. Apple grafts were made about : three years ago. These grafts at onoe isho'weda strong deposition to fruit, and the apples are growing well.

The ■question of fha effectiveness . , of tomato plante asa dura' for. bb'ghfe on peaoh.and other froit Jreea, ha 3 ' . been again wised ;in?yietotia^gotoa /<; S glowers claim to have had the blight ; removed by»their;.bfeatis:;jirid 'frriili growers in tteilcb ?h*avefi lop|; gg'o •?' aasarted that the ; tomato leayee, hpg : y amongsf^^ fessional ..botamsta-dehy .that there

■ • ' Oaroful weighing shows that an . ordinal bee, not loaded, weighs | the one five-thousandth part y of a pound, so that it takes five thousand bees, not loaded, to make a j pound. But the loaded bee when he li p' comes in fresh from the fields and k flowers loaded with honey or bee bread, weighs nearly three times i - more; that is to say, he carries nearly I twice his. own weight, Of loaded I bees, there ato ooly about 1,800 in the I pound. An ordinary hiveofbees'oontains I from four to five pounds of bees, or k between twenty thousand and twenty- ■ five thonsand individuals; but Borne I swarms have double this weight and I . number of bees .—Agriculturist.