The Farmer.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Farm er.

A potato digger has been patented by Mr. Keuben R. Jame«, of filing Sun, Ind. This invention relates to ploughs lor turning potatoes out of tbe ground, curved bars or fingers being substituted for the mouldboard for raking out the potatoes, and to turn away weeds, Tines, etc., while there it an attachment for raking the soil and laying bare any potatoes that may be covered, with other novel features. — Scientific American.

HATJvjwater is a great sweetener of tin, wooden, and iron ware. In Irish dairies everything used for milk is scalded with hay water. Boil a bandful of sweet hay in water and put in the vessel when hot.

Sheep's Horn for Horseshoes. A nfw horseshoe has lately been experimented with at Lyon*, France. The shoe i? mado entirely of fheep'n horn, and is found particularly adapted to horses employed in towns and known not to h*fa a steady foot on the pavement. The results of the experiments have proved very satisfactory, as horses thus shod have been driven at a rapid pace •n the pavement without slipping, Besides this advantage, the new shoe is very durable, and though a little more expensive than the ordinary one, seemn destined sooner or later to replace] ths iron shoe, particularly for horses employed in large cities, where, besides the pavement, the streets are intersected by tramway rails, which from their BlipperinesB constitute a sourc9 of permanent danger.

A REiTAnrini.c vegetable curiosity is to be exhibited at the next State agricultural fair in California. Several weeks ago a grape ?ine, giowing in close proximity to an appletree in full bloom, was found to have attached to it a blossom exactly similar to those on the tree. It was watched day by day, until at last a large and handsome apple had developed from thegeim. Tht portion of the Tine to which the apple has been attached has been cut off, and will be presented as tangible proof of the abnormal growth, which l«ems to be an instance of natural grafting.