RURAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1912, 7 October 1884, Page 3

RURAL NOTES.

Ro> \i; Ai.kh'l'i mar, f<or,n;(,r, Ciubn-Ci->HK-The sinuinei session toiminated nn the (itli August List, when the diplomas inodaK cci tidcates, and p 1 i/os won duimg tlie tomi l>y tht> successful students weie distributed liv Kul Jjitluust, a member of the <<■<>> fining borl\. The |)iiiici|inl, tlie I!ov. .). I) \i Cu.il.in, g.ivc Ir-i]Mul ippoit, f i oiii which it appealed (hat the woik of the lei in had been highly successful. One of the diploma men was Mi Huss,un, an Indian gentleman, who has louincved to Cii"iicostei to obtain, at ins own expense, a knowledge of agiuultme v Inch will benefit his felloe i.( (l ii(tr, n, en He is publishing a book on tlie " DilHi ulties and Wanlh of Lndia, 1 ' .uid it was ieiu uk^d that if a -.null percentage of the Indian people possessed his eneig\ and ability, then difficulties would soon be oveicoine and their wants supplied. AMUtrc'tV Cm I'm. \\i> Mi;vr Tmtokis vr C-Jlw.ow — I'holiindingh titini llio Statoh and Canadian steaniPis at (i-lasgow dining July weie heavy, especially of live cattle and fresh nifnf. Theie weie 22 stenmeis ,unved, of which ') weie fioin New Yoik, h fii)i;i l'oslon, 1 fiom Philadelphia, and 7 fioni Montioai. Of ]iv<> fatty 1 , 14 ste.uneis bi ought ")(iBB oxen, being 1830 head nioie than the landings in same month last yeai, and7'» tunes the nuniber lecened m July, IoBJ. Live sheep numbeied 1270, or l»3(> ki- . i\),\v m coiie-i/onding month. This suinniei u^ain the iuipi.it qf icfu'tjeiated meals has been continued, and ')Jli <iuaiteisof beef and 7^~> caici-es of sheep woie landed, being 7! quaitei.s less, but caicasos mole, than the recoi])ts in Jul\ last \ ear. The cuied meat landings of salt beef Ana lia.i.s <J]w an luciease : but there is a decieo.se in tho quanbay 'if bapqi] and 'salt ]3>ik leceived. The butler and cheese unpoits continue to show n falling off. Ni.w Jncub.s rou. —At the recent Centenaiy Show at Edinbuigh theie was shown an incuba[oi of (fuite a, new design, invented by Mi Jamou SVntsun, MimLgponim, Kilwinniug. The gieat difficulty which has to be overcome bv those who practice aititicial real ing of poultry ih the maintaining of an even temperatme of, &ay 100 to lOodegfe., in the egg chamber during the Oaiwh °f incubation, and to secure this Mr Watson lus designed a yory jngen]ous appaiatus. It contains a thermometer mseitcd m the egg draweis, the upper end of which ib bi ought outside and carried up one side of the incubator ; in this thermometer there is iuseplef] ft pja,tinum wire, and when the mercuiy rises to the adjusted point jt touches the wne, which, cominunicatmg with a small battery, cames a cuuent of electuclty to a hoii/oijc.illy-b,\]«incecl valve, and opens it. This allows the heated air to escape, which at once reduces the temperature in the chambers ; the fall in temperature lowers the mercury, and this causes the communication to cease, and closes the vtike, Th,e machine is thus self-regulating. We would command its uso to aji interested in poultry management. Past Trotting.— A great sensation has (says the con es-pondent of the Times) been cauned in Ameiican lacing circles by the horse ' Jay Eye See ' making a fast trotting * lecord ' at Narragansett Park, Providence, Rhode +B}and, pn Friflay. H§ trotted a mile in 2 minutes and 10 second.-). He had trotted the mile in 2 minutes 10J seconds on the same course last autumn, and was specially backed to beat the previous shortest record — 2 minutes 10£ seconds, made by Mr Vanderbilt's ' Maud S. The Irish Land Act. — A return of the proceedings under the Irish Land Act of 1881, up to the 30th June last, was issued as a Parliamentary paper on Wednesday. Of 144,544 applications received in court up $o that data to have fair rents fixed, the

! court granted 74,115 of them; 20,854 .were dismissed or struck out ; and 10,089 withdidwn. There wore also 70,252 agreements out ot court fking fair rents. Out of 1500 applications to have leases declared void, 145 weie acceded to, 800 were dismissed or shuck out, and 440 withdiavvn. The number of miscellaneous originating notices received, concerning the bale of tenanciesand the resumption of holdings was (581, of which 303 were disposed of. The number of appeals refairients lodged was 17,010, of winch 3429 weie heaid and 301(5 withdiawn. PkDIOREK SIOCK S VLKS IN THE UNITED Sr.vrhs. — The J3ieedeis' Gazette, has pub lished the sales of pedigree stock in the United Slates for the season 1883-4, and makes the following lemaiks regai ding those of shoi thorns :— The Bates families still sell at high pi ices, but the gieatest advance is to be noted in good specimens of .such old l cliable soi ts ;is Marys, Rose of Sharons, Phvllises, and others descended fiom the eaily Ohio and Kentucky importations. When these soi tsaie topped out with bulls concerning the puiity of which theie is no question, and piesoncgood individual merit, they aio in stiong demand Tl.eie is a continued mqiiiiy at high paces for good animals of Scotch bleeding. Fewer of tlii.s soit have been on the m.aiket than last yi\u, and pnvnte transactions indicate a still fiuther advance m choice stock of that chaiacter. In general it may be said that all good heifeis of appioved bieedmg aie quite hi mly held ; young bulls ha\ c pei haps nut met with quite such ioady sale as in some former ye.us, a, f ice supply and .some apathy on the pa.il of lanclunen being mentioned as piobable causeb. Tlie sales of the vanous bioeds <ue Minimal lsed by thoabo\cnientioned journal as lollows :— 23.35 sLorthorus'•old lor £!)/,&>(!, an avoiage of £41; 1 559 Jei seys sold for £107,014, an a\erage of £<>7 ; l") r > Aboideen-Angius sold for £1)020, an a\ei age of £70; 111 (ialloways sold for £8(574, an .ivei.igo of £l>2 ; 117 ITeiefoids sold for £9015, an aveiage of £77 ; 100 Hulcstenis sold foi £7013, an aveiage of £70; 103 (hieiii-'Oy-. sold for £55 L0, an average of £-)3. AmUCLLPUKU, HOUUM s IV THh UxiTKH Sru'i--.. — The inciease winch lias taken pi. ice dining the last twenty yo.u-. in tho .li^iicultuial holdings of the countiy is hi might out very ckurly m somo leturnwhich have lecently been published at Wa^huurton. While tho total number of fauns had doubled in tho twenty years, the incuMse dm mg the ten ye.us from 1870 to ISSO was 73,7 por cent in the Western States of Montana, Wyoming, (Joloiaulo, Kew Moueo, Ait ',on.i, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oiogon and California ; 72"5 pei cent in tho Southern Cential States of Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama, Missi-sippi, Louisiana, Te\asand Ai Kansas; 72 3 per cent m the Southern States of Dolavvaie, Mai viand, Columbia, Vngiiua, Western Vuginia, Noith and South C.uohni, Gooigia and Monda ; 509 per cont in the Noithein .States of Ohio, Tndana, Illinois, Micihigan, Wiscoiibin, Minnesota, lowa, Missoiui, Dakota, Nebiaskaand Kansas ; and only lo"7 poi cent in the Eastern States of Maine, New Hampshne, Viumont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Ymk, Nun' Jeisov and Pennsylvania. While the nuinbei of fauns has ineioasod, thuie has been a considclable dcaease in their aveia<.e si/c, and an niciea-.e in the number undei cultn.ition. "Fauns of between one and 500 aues ,iio 12 pei cent (if the whole numbei ; 2(> p'H cent aie between 50 and lOOaci' 1 , ; 18 pei cont botween L'O iind 50 iiui's; i)5O pi'i cent between 10 and ? 0 ,i(.ie>, ,nul 350 iiei cent undci 10 acic-, loas uij; only 1 pei cont foi f.unis of over 500 acies. With legaid to the mode of oulln.it'on, 2,'KSI 'J0(), oi 7J per cent, ai^ fanned l)y tlie ovmicis ; 322.357 oi .Si pei cont, by ton tuts ; and 702 '.'if), oi 17 2 per tunl, upon the division of piont v sy-^toni. Till- Si 1 1 Ul 1 CmI)1 s]>\] ]„ SI'LD-IiOOK.— The hist volume of the Stud book ot the Select Cl>de>dale Society of Scotland has just made its appeaiance. E\tenchng to some 104 page-», it ib admuably got up both m i expect of the woikmanship of the piinter and the aiiangemont of it^. contents by the zealous seciet.il y, ill James Dunba 11 . It is piofticed by a pleasantly- wiitten tubute to the memoiy of the late muchlespected chairman of the society— Mr Lawieuce Diovv, of Meuyton — which is followed by a number of e\ceipts fioin lottoi .—to which tho waters' names aie adhibited— leceived by tho &ecrot.uy fiom vaiious gontloinon throughout the countiy, to whom proofs of his well-written and appropnate uitioduction to thu volume had boon sent for revis.il, testifying to the coinplotenosb, e\i)hcitness, and accuiacy of his loin uks. In tho sh i))e of intioduction Mr JJunbai gives some twenty ))aget. of a lnstoi y of the hoi'-e, going back as far as the time when its use was little known, except as an anuhaiv of war. He ti aces its piogiess with considerable, imnuteness dov n t'liough Novoral cun tunes, and dilates at some length m an inteiestiiig and instinctive mannei upon the lecent development of the Clydesdale biced. He con eludes by giving a bnef history of some of the mobt celebiated Clydesdales of lecont yi.us, such as ' Vance of Wains, 1 ( n.irnloy,' 1 Failing's- (rlory, 1 ' Tune o' Day,' ' Queen,' and ' Lucy.' Tlie book contains the pechgices of 312 animals ; a list of mcmbcis of the society; the n.mics ot breedeis and owner-) of the animals logistciud ; and an indc\ to the anur als, followed by an intotesting appondiv in tho shape ef Acts of Paihament relative to the nnpiovement of Scotch and English horses. The volume as a whole ib a ci editable pioduction.

A Cow Suckled iiv a Foal. — A short time ago a mare, the propel ty of Mr G. W. C.itton, Aberdour, Fife, dropped a fincfo.il, and slioitly afterwards expired. It was iesol\cd to hung up the foal on cow's milk, but this being rather a troublesome business, the idea of patting the fo.il to a milch cow w.is suggested. On this being tued, the cow stonily iefused to miteitam &nch an unnatutallooking youngster, and commenced to box and kick. After a little peisevoiance, however, the plan provod successful. Tho pair were housed tugethcr at night, and the cow, no doubt feeling the milk heavy on her, was glad of relief. Both aie now quite leconciled to each other, and we undei stand the foal is thiiving veiy well tinder the care of the foster mother, You C w Pin Haih'Y if you will stop all your doctoimfj vouisclf and fimilios with expensive doctors 01 cure-alls th.it do only harm, and use Nature's, simple remedies for all youi ailments, jou will be well .md happy <md save Rrcat exponse. The greatest remedy for this, the great, wise, and goodwill ttl -l yoi'i I s H°P Bitters, fcice