GENERAL ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1592, 16 September 1882, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

There ate upwards of 1,000,000 agricultural landowners in Germany possessing less than three and a quarter acres each. Lv Cheshire, England, extraordinary results have been attained in the application ' of hnlf-itich bones to poor upland pastures. It is not generally known that a few sprigs of cedar bush mixed with hay or any kiwi of litter from hens' nests will keep them entirely free from hen licj. Ik you have hens of the right breed age, war.n and sunny qnartew for them to stay in, and keep them supplied with everything th a y need, yon will have eggs, simply because hens can no more help laying than they can help breathing. USKJ) recklessly for lice on cattle, kerosene is dangerous ; properly applied it is a good remedy. Mix it with four times the quantity of lard and rub it in well on the places where the lice gather, chiefly along the spine. No fowl will be successful in hatching chicks unless so situated that it can have ample facilities for dusting, as this is the method by which fowls keep off or drive away lice and parasites. Youxo pigs are easily killed by overfeeding and indigestion. Moderate feeding produces a far better growth and keeps the pigs healthy. Too high feeding of the sow will also injure the pigs, as it makes the milk too rich and the pigs do not digest it. A. traveller with one trunk paid $23000 for his passage across the Atlantic. — Jumbo. The following ominous 'Notis' is posted in a Texas saw mill ;— 'Doant lnunky with the buz saw when in nioshnn.' Adaptability : A man never looks so like a red-handed villain as when he is told by the photographer to 'look pleasant.'— Hartford Times. 'Bless my stars !' said Mrs Pennypacker, 'Don't you know what the Vacuum is ? The Vacuum is where the Pope keeps his bulls.' — Quiz. A Western paper announces that upon the occasion of a recent boiler explosion in the neighbourhood, 'between three or four men were killed.' The pugilist dots his ' eves,' The proccr crosses his ' teas,' The billmrdist minds his' cue;,' And the farmer minds his ' peas.' 'How came such a greasy mess in the oven ?' said a fidgety old spinster to her maid-of-all work. 'Why,' replied the girl, the candles fell into the water and I put them iv the oven to dry.' At a new York dinner one man gave his fork to another, with, 'Just stick that fork into that potato for me, will you ?" His unneighbourly neighbour did as he requested, and left it sticking there. At the recent sale of the Shorthorn herd of Colonel Cannon of Vermont, which was purchased by Messrs X,. Huston and Son of Illinois, the Duchesses of Hillhurst 6th and 7th were £2UOO each, and the Duchess of Hillhurst Bth and Duchess of Overtake at £1400, By growing deeply rooted crops as part of a rotation the subsoil is made to contribute to the general fertility. Shallowrooted crops, on the otlier hand, have generally a special facility for appropriating food accumulated at the surface. Salt has been found almost universally to be useful when applied to grass lands. The, common cheap salt is used, and five to ten bushels applied per acre. It is best applied early in the spring. It is also beneficial to pastures. The select and valuable herd of Aberdeen polled cattle belonging to Mr D.A. Pearson, Johnson, Kincardineshire, which has taken fourteen years to build up, has been destroyed on account of the outbreak of plenro-pneumonia. The animals have all been slaughtered. Dr Voklckkk recently stated before a meeting of the British Dairy Faimers' Association that he found that food given to a cow while in milk would bp converted into milk within six hours from the time it is eaten, and that a rapid improvement in the quality of the milk follows change from poorer to richer food. He also spoke very decidedly in favor of soiling as against pasturing, the latter being a most wasteful method of feeding. Charcoal is not a fertiliser. It is almost indestructible, and wholly insoluble in water. It is of great value as a disiniectant and deodoriser, absorbing many times its own bulk of ammoniacal gas, and acts at a storehouse of ammonia ami moistuic, giving them out as needed by ])lants. It-* mechanical action is to lighten the soil, and it tends to pin ify it ami keep it sweet Hants Ukc their caibou fioni the air by their leaves and not fiom the eaifch. In my experience in raiding j,'cese I find that it is bust to let the goose take care of tier egg^ -not remove them from the neat ; nearly every eg<j is sure to hatch in spite ot the old theoiy tli.it thunder and lightning will kill the goslings in the shells. I manage by pindent feeding to keep the geese from laj - ing until all danger of the csegs chilling by leaving them on the nest is passed J consider <reuse the most profitable in the poultry line, and the most easily luisud. llimil Xtw li» fiir. Tin: value of the fleece is increased by care in bhcaiing. All filthy tag lock* should be taken oIT before the slicop is shorn and thrown into a basket by them selves. Nevor roll theae up in the fleece. If any cuts are made upon theskin of the sheep, rub a little tar upon them. After shearing guard against cold rainstorms. Much trouble in tagging the sheep w ill j be 'saved if they arc kept from the fresh] grass or clover after they are washed, and fed on hay until sheared. A Stout lookingj-oung feilow, recently was put up to the highest bidder, in fiont of the court house at Richmond, Ky., aiul sold under a charge of vagiauoy into shivery foi one year. He brought only four shillings. Mr Williams J.Collins w.is the purchaser, and said he would set the poor fellow to work on the railroad. A Smr-.TOTNRR at Portsmouth dockyard, England, was sentenced last month to imprisonment for one week for assulting his wife. During their twenty-one years of married life the husbaud had given her black eyes no less than two hundred times. This avouUl make an average of nearly nineteen cases of punishment in two yeais. The Liverpool Mercury says : — Another attempt seems likely to be made to secure justice for the Maoris of New Zealand, who have been dcpiived of their landd by the Colonial Government, and can get no redress. If they resist," says the Colonial Ministers, "we will exterminate them." The Colonial Office, however, will not move. It has adopt pd the doctrine of colonial responsibility, and therefoie leaves the New Zealandeis to bear the burden of their own crimes. It is useless to appeal to public opinion in the matter. The public will have enough to do to think about Cetewayo and his woes, and will hardly receive with sympathy the story of the evil done to the prophet Te Whiti, who has preached peace to his own race, yet has had the audacity to claim justice, only to be arrested as a seditions person. It is, after all, only a chapter in the story known as "The Extermination of a Grand Race." The Maoris were once 150,000 strong ; they are now more fewer than' 40,000. They will soon be elbowed out and reduced by rum until they are not 4,000 and the 4,000 will be hewers of wood and drawers of water. Why, after all, should we seek to arrest the inevitable? It will corae and perhaps it is as well 'twere, done (juwkty,