A MYSTERIOUS HORSE DISEASE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MYSTERIOUS HORSE DISEASE.

Mr F. J. Murray, the Inspector of Police of Blackball (says The Queenslander), has brought under the notice of the Chief Inspector of Stock an outbreak of a now disease which has been committing havoc itmomrthe horeei in the neighbourhood of Birdtville and Cluny. The symptoms are described ai follow :— The horses get very hollow and tremble like a leaf, stagger, and fall down. Sometimes they sit back on their haunches, all the while making desperate but ineffectual attempts to g) forward. They become very poor, and many die. Those that survive the attack are *ver after useless. It is by some attributed to poiaon, by other* to sunstroke. Mr Murray it inclined to the belief that it it not attributable to the latter, as he hau ueen horses attacked in the «am« way during the weather.

Hot Cors for Fowls.— A correspondent writes : '' If you want t<> iiialte your fowl.-* feel good and thankful give them hot corn for mipper— ju<t a* h«it iiMthey can eat it. To find nut how hut it should b» pick up * handful and hold it tightly in your cloand hand ; if it burn*, of counts it w too hot, but if after holding it a minute it makes your hand feel warm *nd nice it ju-t right. To heat th« corn put it in iron pan or kettle in the stove oven and, stir it occasionally. If your wife hat biscuit in the oven you had better put the kettle on the back part of the stove add »tir the corn often. Mind now, I don't mean that you are to put water in with the oorn ; I mean hot dry corn. If some kernel* at the bottom of the kettle should get scorched, er even charred, the hena will eat it and it will do them good, toe." Novr That's Settled. —The "Three acres and a cow," that seemed to bo the cry of the Radicals last election, ha» been traced back to various sources. One man locates it in the Bible. Mr Quarritch, the noted old book-man of London, read at the Reform Club recently an extract from Knorr'i "German history 'of the English Revolution." The e\twvot says:— "The leaders of the revolution body could no 'longer hold the rough masses in control, and the misled peasant?, who placed truth in their adventurously offered baits, among which the premises of three acres and a cow was conspicuous, found themseh es deceived, and turned the whole course of their anger against their noble betrayers." A Contrast.— Gilt-edged butter may be too expensive, but it is tv wholesome luxury. It delights the palate ; it aids digestion, it warms the body, and makes the wheels of life roll easily and smoothly along, and thus promotes health and happiness, for health and happiness are associated. The man who supplies the world with fine butter is a benefactor of his race, and puts the earth he controls to good use, and is entitled to respect, encouragement, and protection from the society whose happiness and welfare hiu labours promote, With poor butter it is the reverse in everything! It ii unpalateable, and instead of aiding, it interferes with digestion and vitiates the blood, and is therefore unwholesome. It not (inly does not please anybody, it is often even loathsome. The man who makes poor butter does the world no good. His labours are worse than wasted, his products become a burden to society, and his work loss to himself. He is no good on earth. His nsms in a by- word and a reproach, and he is unworthy of encouragement or protection. He is only a fit subject for pity and the labours of a missionary. A Chkap PuESEnvATiVE.— The discovery that a mixture of boracic acid and salt is a prejervative of butter, fish, flesh and other perishable articles might be taken advantage of in toil warm climate with great benefit to all concerned in the production and. disposal of thorn article!), By its

means the hundreds of baskets of fish and the stunt's of butclj» i r*<« moat th<it ara annually tl€'Htn>yi»«i, li"C nisi* iit>c<>nip<i«itu>M has Mit in befnu' they cmild be consumer], rni^lit be a.iwd to tlu- community. \V« road that »• between 4000 .uvl .iOOO oaii^ls •if lipirinffM packed in a un'ct'ii" <> f lyn cic acitl and Mlt iirri\e every vvci il < in Kngl md from Norw»y. The .icirt itself c^ts lo<B than (ill a piiiuid. Tli" ;uo|i <rtion employed are twti thnd-A <if -vilt and »ne-thnd of bnracic acid, tho l.ittor powdrrcl h'np." lt< clicapnc<s ,\« woll as pfft'ctiveum-. is tliiis tfti,u\uitt"Ml, aiul th" b'-ncfiti to fi-liTini'ii, bntuliers .md uthei < hint ui'^fht result from iU uoo would bd iiioalculuble.