Miscellaneous.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1729, 4 August 1883, Page 2

Miscellaneous.

The cost of the electric light apparatus for the Parliamentary Building was £2196 11s. Mr Pyke'a bill to amend the Gaming .and Lotteries Acfc seeks to repeal sections 46 and 47 of the act. Those sections legalise the use of the totalisator on lacecourses.

HiDEuorSD may not properly be called a disease, but rather the result of various diseases. Whenever a horse's hide becomes tight and unyielding it is * V^je sign that the aninnl is in proper, tion. Ailments of the kidneys are s-^mer the cause of this than any other disease. The following powder will act on the kidneys and secretory organs: Nitiate of potash, two ounces and a half ; sulphate of iron, rosin, each ten drachms ; juniper berries six ounces —all in powder, to be well mixed and divided into twelve parts, j one of which to be given night and morning in a scalded bran mash. Coal cinders are recommenced by Ohio breeders as excellent for filling low plaoes in pig lots to prevent nmddy wallows. Sows will enjoy eating coal and ashes. Even onthracite coal is not passed by them. A sow with young uigs should not run in clover fields or high grass. Pigs become chilled, and are uncomfortable much of the day. Then short pastures are best. Sows and pigs should have access to grass at all times, unless, just as the frost comes out, the sod is injured by the tramping. To prevent rooting the sod, two or three iings will cure the oldest rooter. When pigs are five or six weeks old they should be taught to eat soaked shelled corn and milk or sweet slop, kept where the bows cannot rea,ch. ,: . ,