FARM, GARDEN AMD ORCHARD NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2982, 25 August 1891, Page 4

FARM, GARDEN AMD ORCHARD NOTES.

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.. .V v,l'll fiU-'.l basr of f .,v:l. <:.• p. -Mr <liu' | v.-.H 1 u-uiiLTIIt in !,» Mr l!;i t Tw>».l, and iift'T beins? . j1 apjiuitit.i"!, KII'I I i :1: il I'll n> V,' and tested senlrs. 1 lie 1, i. ~f ..in ill ptit'itouH wan first weighed nil l\>'l I'll 'Ji'ilti. whil.' thn b;ii_- IJI in.i; ivt'iL.'lif'l-l _'!'>lVi., or '.i'Ub. rnorf. ;li::n -1ji;111 mi''.". There were -i niim--1,. i' nf jti. .*-1 ins present. in tin' xveii'liinsr mill t'11: n ~uU v.ms ri'in ivri! witli p:neval >ur; ii.si.-. ;ih the m ijiritv i;rjn.~if!i t< il tin* -mull pi il.itiji'S would •iciuh ilic must. City U'iys as Dairy Han:.-.—Ar. Ann i i'l'in ti■.i'' Ih■ i" .-i iys tlint, i.'i:y '>i'V-> "re ■ ■ li-rr t(i l-'ii'.-h tu become :'■(! ''utter makers t]imll country lioys. found that out yours and it. wis no L'reat task to iell why it was. Thorn is a hnmi'ly sayiuif that is hanl to teach nil okl do- a new trick. In other w.irls it is much, very much, harder to unlearn a man than to originally teach him, If ho knows nothing about the bnsinc-s his mind is in a receptive mood and he learns rodily ; hut if he knows ono way to do it and you want to tench him another way you have got. all his vanity and pigheadrdne-s enlisted against you. All of his previous experience rises up against you, so that you have first got to conquer "him before he is williriir to learn. If you do not believe this, just try to introduco a now idea into the dairy world. No matter how ohsolutely its virtues cm bo proved, all the old hands are iroing to make war on you. Again, the country boy Ims boon brought up at the old fashioned churn, and be has generally had enough of it, while the city boy looks forward hopefully to a fresh experience;. For our part wo don't blame the country boy, especially if he had been compelled to eat the butter bo made. Scottish Shepherds.—Tho Scottish shepherd (says tho Illustrated London i\ T ews) takes higher rank morally than intellectually. He is honest to the backbone ; but his clergyman does a deal of the thinking for him, and he follows his pastors politics faithfully. Neither angling, playing cards, musical instruments, reading, nor games are much to his taste ; aiul without, his kirk, liis dogs, his gossip at a neighbor's, his interest in his ewes," lambs, weather and tobacco, life would hardly be worth living. He would uevor do in Texas, whero shepherds have no dosrs; next to his wife and babies come his collies. At sheep shearing or dippng, at gathering fuel, at welcoming strangers, at finding out slieep buried in snow, at conducting them in winter to lower pastures, tho dogs give vitalty to the scene. Although excluded from church, they aro present at almost every irathenug. Their habits even connect man with the secrets of his faith, and their winnings and oddities are grave affairs to those whoso grandfathers used to have a glimpse of Satan himself. At the croat meetings which tako place at the fall of tht! year, when swine require to bo killed, the dogs and tho boys are present, both taking an interest in the awful, but prolitable, sacriti.ce. The (ravelling draper among the hills brings handkerchiefs witjh collies printed in the '•orners ; aud even turning over tho pages of their large illustrated Bibles a longer pause is made over tho pictures in which those animals are introduced, with whom they of necessity spend so largo a portion of their time. Ax American Cow Stoky.—lf we want to find wonderful thinsrs we go to America for them. Prodigiouß milkers —fast trotters—heavy pigs—enormous pumpkins, &c. A Californian newspaper, the Woodland Democrat, tells a grnd cow story. It says:—" Fred Springer, of Blacks, has a boss cow and family of cows on record. This magnificent cow, which is still living, has given birth to sixteen calves. Tho first two births were nothing out of the ordinary, but for the next seven years she gave birth to twins retrularly. Each time the calves were of different sex, each exactly alike in colour and size, and both lived. This is a good record for a cow, but the history does not end here. Her oldest daughter grew to womanhood, and begun raising a family of her own. Her first effort was a fine voting heifer. Then, profiting by her mother's experience, she went into twin business, and for five years she has given birth to twins regularly. These also were of opposite sex, and all lived, thus making" a total of twenty-eight. Pretty -.rood-sized family, isn't it P But wait. You have not heard from the oldest granddaughter yet. She believes in keeping up the good name of the family, and docs not propose to bo ontdone by inv one. She has only been in business four years, but has eight, children to provide for. Again they aro of opposite sex and just alike, and all living. A uic« little family of thirty-six, aud only three mothers and nine years' work. Now, if anybody has a cow story that will beat this, let him crack his whip and sail in. Wo want to hoar it." "So say all of us."