RURAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1983, 24 March 1885, Page 2

RURAL NOTES.

MiMv winch Inn clnnqcd in.iy be sweetened or rendered ht for u'-e ag.iin by alining in a little uodn. H\Y water is a fjie.it sweetener of t'n, wooden, and iron ware. In liish dailies everything used for milk m ac.ilded with hay water. B )tl a handful of sweet h i.v in water, and put id the yes-tel when* hot.

CtMKVT kokKmh: H i\i»u v-R-sm four parts, beeswax one put, and platter of Paiis, m.iUca a good eminent foi knife handles, Fill the opening in the ivory handles with the mixture, then heat the steel portion of the handle and pass it firmly into the cement. CdPAt, varnish applied to the soles of shoes, and repeated as it dm-*, until the poies are filled and the smface hhin<s like polished mahogany, will makes the soles watei proof, and last as long a? the uppers.

lo Mark Ci.<vrms White.—A tea spoonful of borax, put in the last watei in which clotlus .ire rinsed, will whiten them surprisingly. Pound the borax so it will dissolve easily. This is especially i(ood to remove the yellow that time gi\es to white garments that have been (aid aw vy for two or three yeais.

Whitewash. —Lime slaked with a solutio'i of salt in water, and then pro perly thinned with skim milk from which ■ill the crown has been taken, mikes a permanent whitewash for outdoor work, and, it is said, renders the wood in coin bustible. It is im excellent wash for pieseiving wood and for all farm pur po*i s

HaYMVKINO K\TKAOKI>IN\nY. — Tile method of curing h.iy in Norway is pecu liar. In diiving-ilont; the highway one notices out in the midst of n field ten or a do/en lengths of post and rail fence in a sttaight line. Wh.it is the object of thf> fences? When the yra-H is cut it is laid over these rails, tier nh<>\c tier, to diy In the curing process it has the benefit of the wind as well .is sun ; and in case of rain the water runs olf readily. The colour of the hay is nearly as bright a green as the standing irriss. New Zhaland Mutton Counter-I-eitkd.—Much comment has bee' occasioned in Kent by the statement made by •everul farmers, at the annual rent dinner of the tenantry on Loxl Hothfield'i estates, o*er which his lord ship presided, that old Kent ewes of riinall size were now scut up to Lnidon and their carcases dressed to resemble those of New Zealand and Australian sheep, and that they were afterwnids sold as such, realising thus considciably more than they did when sold as Kentish

barren cwcm. Cam. it by its Hh.iit N\mk.— At a confeience of grocers recently li«*I<l in Manchester, it was resolved that a circular hi' sent to oveiy memW of the trade in Manchester, Sal foul, ami district, urging them to ticket all Imttcrine e\ posed by them for tulc \utli the woid

"butterine." Hkhefords. — The National Live Stock Journal, in commenting upon tlio Stock ton bury sale, says :—*' The prices an lion need ftuni England concur witli other abundant e\idciice, that tlio Herefoul is now landed liigli ami dry aho\c the read) of tli(! tides of fashion. Its merits arc now recognised, and it has become, not a breed of one corner of England and a slice of the Welsh bolder, but ft bleed to range the world."

Notification* tn connection with application* in li.inkrnptcv appear in another column Tinder* arc invited for n; shin^'li'itf .md otkrr repair* ol the ten her* rotnicncc, Hamilton X ist School, up to tlio 2ft th m*t. Mr G. I). Hunter, *aildlcr, Uc Awimutu reque*M th.it all out*t.inding account* r>u nettled witlr.ut drlny. Mr C harlot Jnhtunn intends running .1 four horjo coarh to the Huknnut ctnrert nn Inn<l.n evening next, leaving Ciwynne'o Hotel at 0 15, returning after concert, t.iro, 4s return. Mr William R.ittr.iy, mercer and draper, Auckland, inxcrt* n bu«ine*s notiro in another c olumn which will lie, of ktrc.it interest to people KoinK to Auckland by to d iy'x en union train L»t of tuitorn at Io Aroha Hot batb* last week . -Mr and Mri J. Hmton, Mr Ihos Markey, Mri und Misicx (2) Alexander, Mr and Mm (iarluk, Mr and Mm Maker, Mm and Mi« Atkinn, Mr and Mr* ]. S Gould. MrVV Stewtrt, Mr R. H. Syraon, Mr Robt. Rowp, Mr Gorrir, MrH. H. Lu«k, Mr.md Mm J. L. WiNon, Mr and Mr* Stmcn<nn, Mr Yoiinp, Mr Potter ami if in, Mr Levcv> Mr Knox, Mr R. K. D.vis, Mt Dnwnen, Mr P. Dillon, Mr and Mr* Wbitlcy. Mr Short, Mr W. M. Law»on, Mr C. F. Griffith, Mr \V. A (iriffitfa*. Mr Heather, Mr A. Heather, Mr Wm. Pear»on, Mi« HutchUon, Hoy K. lU\in. MrJ MeHrid«,Mrß E. I»aac», Mr T Wenel. Mr R. Keid, Auckland; MrTa*. Craiir, Mr H. Kenrulc, K.M., Mx I.owric, Mr and Mr* Tea*d.ile, Mr Spe'icor, Mr Mackey, Mr* S. Hcthring ton, Mi** M. Ko*», Mi** L. Robert.*, lhames ; Mr Crcwd«on, Ncl*on ; Mr* John M-trtyn, Cant Hct'rr, Mr and Mrs S S Graham, Mr D F-mnrll, Mr I'iekell, Mr and Mr* HreaVcli, Mr and Mr* Edf;«cumbe, Waikato ; Mr |a* I.hwaon. Mix* Law, Dunrdin : Mr aixl Mr* (1 ?Jij»nall, Miniie* Macnall (2) I'urua , Mr Livinftton, Mr T. G. Snndet, Hamilton ; Mr T. Morgan, Hnutapu ; Mr R. Olney, Epiom, Mr Young, Qtafo ; Mn Gould, Dunedin,