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TOPPING UP FAT CATTLE.

Most animals eat iv proportion to tlicir weight, underaverage condition of age, temperature, and fatness. } Give fattening cattle as much as tlioy will eat, and often, five times a day. j Never give rapid changes 'of food but ch.mge often. j A good guide for a safe quantity; of grain per day to manure cattle is lib' to (Jaoh 100 of their weight,; thus, an animal weighing lOOOlbs, may receive lOlbs of. grain. Early stall feeding in the autumn will make the winter's progress more certain by 30 per cent. j Give as much salt and water at all times as they will take. i In using roots, it is one guide to give jnst as much, in association with other things, so that the animal may not take any w.iter. ' ' In buildings having warmth with complete ventilation, without currents, but nc\ cr under 40dc«;. nor over 79deg Fahrenheit. A cold, clamp, airy temperature will cause animals to consume more food without corresponding results in bone, muscle, flesh, or fat, much being used to keep up warmth. St,ill feeding is bettor for fat making than box or yard management, irrespective of health. Th,e growing animal, intended for beef, requires a little exercise daily, to promote muscle and strength of constitution, when ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to maiket. Currying daily is equalto 7 per cent of the increase. Keep the temperature of the body about lOOdeg. not under Qodeg, nor over lO.idcg Fahrenheit. Get rid of every fattening beast before' it is three years old. It takes throe days of good food to make up for one day of bad feed. Kvery day an animal is kept after being prime there is loss, exclusive of manure. The extei nal evidences of primeness are full rumps, flanks, twist, shoulder, purse, vein and eye. A good cattle man means a difference of one fourth. He should know the likes and dislikes of every animal. It pays to keep one man in constant attendance on 30 head of fattening cattle. Immediately when an animal begins to fict for food, immediately it begins to lose flesh, never check the fattening process. Never begin fattening without a definite plan. — Report of the Ontario Agricultural College.

A nooD story of Carlyle is told in tho Rev A. G. L'KstftuiKe's recently published woi't, " The Friendships of Mary ; Russell' Mitford." Miss Mitford is giving an account of a conversation that Mr Fields had had with Carlylc. " '.So, sir, yc'ie an American ?' quoth the self-suffi-cient Scotchman. Mr Fields assented. ' Ah, that's a wi etched nation of your am It's .ill wiong. It always has been wiong from the vera beginning. That gicte inon ot youis, Geoigu— did anyone under the sun e\er dieam of calling Washington George before ? — your giete mon, Geoigc, was a monstrous bore, and w.ints taking down a few hundied pegs.' ' Really, Mr Cavlylc,' lephed my friend, 1 you are the last man in the world from whom I should have expected such an observation ! Look at your own book on Cromwell ! What was Washington but Ci oin well without his personal ambition and fanaticism ?' ' Oh, sir, responded Carlyle, ' Geoige had neither ambition nor religion, nor any good quality under the sun ! George was juafc Oliver with all the juice squeezed out.' "

Dkatii of Joiix Brow.v — This favounte servant of the Queen died at Windsor Castle on March 27. A London despatch says :— "He was sent from Windsor to Lady Florence Dixie's to enquiie into all the circumstances of the outiage said to have been committed upon her, and what with the inclemency of the weather and the mystification into which hci ladyship plunged him, he took to his bed and died." The Queen is deeply afllictod over the loss of hot 1 servant, and the whole Press speaks of him with great lespect, and almost at great length, as if lie had been a Cabinet Minister. The public cxpiession which her Majesty made of her grief was somewhat extraordinary. He had served 34 years in the Rojal Household. The French Press insist that Brown was the Queen's adviser in domestic and State affairs, and indulge in some very equivocal and unfounded toinancmg, reciting numerous anecdotes, presumably imaginary, illustrating his behaviour to British notables. Brown is said to have died worth £1,000,000.

Extr vordin'AKY Suicide.—' We remember publishing some years ago the story of a peculiarly gi imand horrible suicide ; that of a man fastening himself down on the bare battens of a bedstead above the flame of a lamp, so placed that it slowly burned thiough his backbone, writing down the sensations he experienced minute by minute, till the pencil fell from his neiveless grasp. A schoolmaster at Manyalore (Victoua) has just terminated his earthly career m a manner not so dramatic, but to the full as ghastly and deti'i mined. He bought a gimlet at a loenl store, being unusually careful in his selection, and with this bored a hole thiough his left breast, till he pierced his heart. "What a pity that the amount of courage and resolution involved in such an act could not have been turned into some honourable and useful channel ?

Uxivkusity Boat Race.— The annual race between crews of Cam bridge and Oxford Universities took place on the Thames on the afternoon of March 15. The course was from Putney to MortLike, a distance of four miles and two furlongs. The boats started at 3.15. C.imbiiflge had the Middlesex side of the liver, the Oxford, Surrey side. Oxford led by a length at Duke's Head, a short distance fiom the starting point, and won by three lengths. Oxford had the best of an uneven start. They pulled a regular etioke— nearly, 40 to the minute— and were almost clear of the Cambridge boat at Ci iiven Stops, about six furlongs from the stai t. Cambridge here deflected towauls the Middlesex shore. Oxford at the end of the fust mile weietwo lengths ahead, and rowing veil together. Here the darkness thickened, and snow began to fall. The Cambridge crew was splashing considerably by the time the Soapwoiks w ere reached. At Hammersmith Cambridge was nine seconds behind Oxfoid, andat Chiswick Eyot three-quar-teis of a mile further on they were four lengths astern, but going better. A violent hailstorm here broko Upon the crews, when Cambridge quickened speed, but in Coney Reach it was evident all was over with them, and Oxford came in an easy winner. The result caused greater excitement than any previous race, in consequence of the heavy betting on Cambi idge, who, at the start, were favourites at 7 to 2. The defeat of the crew on whom such odds were laid is unprecedented. Science won against strength. When the mail left, preparations of all kinds for the ceremony at Moscow were proing on in the Russian capital. The Mint is striking a commemorative medal, which is to be in gold for the highest perscnages prebent.in silver f6r ih*e dthers. The Crown jewels are being put in 'order. The Crown whioh , was ) made for thf> Empre«h Catherine 11,, is Naid to be worth £300,000, and is studded with fine diamonds, piarls and rubies, while the Bcoptre is adorned with the celebrated Orloff diamond, said to b« worth £800,000. The total value of the jewels is estimated at £3,200,000. It is also 'stated than n million handkerchiefs are to be distributed with a representation of the. Goddess of Abundance' printed thovcou. As during the uei oniony sixteen {omituiiw arq to irush fofth beer t-> tlwtextoiit 0f .40, 000 botttee em'ijij a pluytul oonteinpontry to niiuka that iho « is' iiKoljr' t,u ho 'p'tmfit'uyed its u h' ( &«jvUijs! '^vi^ity^

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Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1693, 12 May 1883, Page 4

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TOPPING UP FAT CATTLE. Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1693, 12 May 1883, Page 4

TOPPING UP FAT CATTLE. Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1693, 12 May 1883, Page 4

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