RURAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2346, 23 July 1887, Page 2

RURAL NOTES.

Tasv.\>’i.\x I'V.rix is Tilt Ev-.u-h MaiiA recent shipment of apples by the f. c . Garonne ha? be.-n a eainpiete success, ther fruit s dim;.’ at Id, tile case. Ess.iv Pdj/.’s.— i lie tint two prizes offered by Miss A. E. Ormerod, the con*<iitiiig entomologist of the Koyal Agricultural Society to agricultural students for essays ou Hake or liver rot in sheep, have been awarded to E. liaise anil 11. A. Colvil, of Tuinworth Agricultural College an.! riannnu larm. Salk ok Lutlvs G !.ol:v.—The Jersey cow Lively’.- Glory, bred ami owned by Mr Francis L-,- Hro ‘J. of St. Peter.*, Jersey, and which was tested t.. give l-'ilb. 7oz. butter in s- v- n Jiv-, ha- bean sold ta an English breed-r for fI.V). This cow i- a d mght-r of Fanners Glurv -_’Tl Jersey Herd-book. ’ ~ ’ 1-o-s or La -.tits.—lt is stated that fi kinasters in Dorset are experiencing great losses with thc-ir lambs tins season. “ The excessive mortality is attributed to the recent flails and the present severe weather. One farmer in the neighbourhood oi IfarehestcT has already lust eighty lambs. t;i:ANi i.ATiN<; Kltikh.—After all that has been ilo:i<; and said and written, we believe very few, comparatively sneaking, know even Vet the importance of gathering butter in pellets. or oi.iiiiiUs. instead of pounding the whole of a churning into one hug-: lump, iillcd with buttermilk from centre t-. surface.