GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1310, 20 November 1880, Page 3

GLEANINGS.

Agricultube cannot be carried on by any rigid rule. The aoil of no two fields is precisely alike, or would be alike by the same treatment. No two seasons are precisely alike. All is variety and change. Intelligent farming must adapt methods according to condition and circumstances. A Brunswick journal recommends the application of collodion as the best protection of threatening or actual sores on horses from the friction or pressure of the saddle or harness. The collodion dries instantaneously, forming a thin film over the tender place, which is thus protected from dirt and air, and placed in the most favourable conditions for rapidly healing, and the horse can be worked as usual i without hindering the cure. I I spread my barnyard manure on the surface of the land and ploughed it under on one-half of the field ; on the other half I spread the manure on the surface after the wheat was sown, then giving it a rake over with the harrow. The portion of the field on which the manure was ploughed under gave a much better growth to the wheat than the part where the manure was spread on the surface. — American Paper. Several years ago a neighbour who was called to kill a horse at another neighbour's because its leg was broken, asked if he might have the horse ; and on receiving an affirmative answer, he proceeded to splinter his leg — a hind one — and in a couple of months he had a good serviceable horse, greatly to the surprise of the original owner of the beast, Trio looked upon it with covetous eyes. — Chicfft/o Tribune. A neighbouring farmer, some six years since, planted two branches of an apple tree, one the size of an ordinary walkingstick, the other four times the size ; both were planted in a garden, about six inches deep, and both bure fruit the following year. They bear well now, look healthy and vigorous, and bid fair to do so for many years to come. These branches were cut with a cross piece at the bottom : they were not pruned, and were planted the middle of December. — Gardener's Chronicle. For a good whitewash, slake, say, one peck of limo, and while hot and of the thickness of cream add a quart of linseed oil and a quarter-pound of glue. Let it stand a day before using. Eains will not wash it olf, nor will it prove such a nuisance to the interior walls as common white-wash. It should, of course, be thinned with water while using, as ordinarily. A fine condition of the soil is indispensable for barley. Old barley growers know all about this, but many want to grow barley because it is a profitable crop when successful. It will succeed in any good, well prepared soil, but a mellow clay loam which can be brought to good tilth is to be preferred. But good crops of bright grain may be grown on lighter loams if in good heart. It may be made an excellent soil ; .q crop to follow clover, and as a chanp from oats. In 1840 thp ,c was nearly half a million sheep in Connecticut, a State admirably adapted 'a growing mutton-sheep, In 1870 th',re were leas than 84,000. At the preset time in many towns there is not a single one. The extermination of sheep by dogs, not lack of profit in the business, is the reason why sheep are no longer raised. Rats and Mice. — We cleared our premises of these detestable vermin by making a whitewash yellow with copperas as, and covering the stones and rafters of the cellar with a thick coating of it. In every crevice where a rat might tread we put crystals of the copperas, and scattered the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice.