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Mataura Ensign , Issue 4, 9 July 1895, Page 4
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E§gpUJ:Sy,, LEAFLETS FOB FABMEB9. 'Apropos of- the large issue of these ;yi^;>? by-. our .Government, ani the latest, ?^f;Jjr6;r22, on » Siinkweed," of 10,600 S?i5J; rv ooplep, the following yarn comes in ;handy:— " A knowledge of the loc-al ||$pk names, ..effects on stock, and th» f|S^. yjhabitats ' of many of our wild sbtuba i^^*;' aadgraeseß, one would imagine, might *£...',' 'be officially useful to stock inspectors S'V' < - •and owners throughout their respective >-•'• ' ':: cblonieß. What they may cram into i-.;.i'-_. their heads with a view to pass an ex« is In this matter utterly i^jf^Vbrthless. ; And actually one of such ■; an official's 'first duties in his district , fhonld be to ioqnire into the toxic or W:.&i Qtbo? properties of any suspected vege; ..tatiQn.CTho other day a man brought =|e.:Vin a I, bunch of weeds to the inspec'or L:A^ : :iand:aßfeed for some information about '.' i ; • >lthem;' But the official had never even ;=/-. rAf.seen' the i- plant before. However, he -v^^jwasn't going to admit that. "I'm not . eaid he, but I should say ii's _ '■'■£*■ ■ Xanilwrina- teroimissimus — quite '£'■<$£■ harmless, if it is !" " Harmless bo ; f,f| ;^d--.'-4d !" was the reply, « there's a o^4>|^; hundred of my weaners lying dead, out V:,, yonder, with their bellies full of it. C--:^ : We've' got no double-jointed name for !; ;^;Vfr it. ejiher/ 1 he concluded, " the children Igfe^llit^stinkweedv' And what I want ic^-AS tb^knb* ie, is. it poisonous, or is it; %>V not ?" '-But' he didn't find out that fc^/^trip/—^Pastoralistß' Eeviaw.' ';;Si> ; V. v ,; DANISH BCTrER AND EGGS. jVgy-Trf-pIJiA sum of pearly thirty-seven J?4^;.;^mbn3and - ponnds sterling was paid v?r . -^^Pt^ a y a 189 * ouli °* tnia country % . "jfdr butter consumed , here by people iy unable . to* make it for themselves. °<.| ' About one^hird of 4 the butter thus im•■:-£ Parted came from Denmark." Thus .;l.;- : Mrs Alec Tweedie in a sug[WV}j-"-g6Sliva and interesting article, " On i;^t Danish Butter-Making," which ap:{v:V; pears in the May number of the 'vi- .. fortnightly^ Keview.' Furthermore, has only taken to butter;^|;, for,^ejrport within the lest fitr v - .twenty yearp*and now it ia the chief :';: A ''^jbfade'of . the country, and the main • . rv/Ksputce 'of its revenne." What ;..;:' ; words (demands the 'Telegraph') i^t -S'could be mog pregnant with caustic iv^-Higaifioance, more full of reproach to 'V '" the heedless and inert agriculturists of ff.!:- 'Great Britain and Ireland, than those Ij ; V 'jast cited ? A little country, with a ju'-~ population considerably smaller than r/;,.^ that of Yorkshire, with a harsher and ;Jj, :.'.: bolder climate, and a far less generous t •> soil—^but with sons and daughters -: .":-. -;" giveri'over early and lat? to toil, aud . ■•.as thrifty as they are" industrious V? . produces a hundred-fold more butter . and eggs r»9r head of population than • the inhabitants of the United King. d0m. ... ; . ■ . THICKS IN ALL XBADES BUT OUES. - •'; ' The AberSeenshire farmers ere goicg ; ; >- to try to accomplish what Australian . , coloniata often talk of and never pub 1 •--'.•-. into practice — the opening in London .' ; for the direct supply of meat -the p^Wli", TUflyinini mill iHft' -ti^si^iß <yßicfi"they allege was meted . -*bht, to' them last Christmas by the beef bayers, tho Aberdeen :'. breeders and feeders are going to form and do the distribution j^^aheniselyea. . A large central dep6>-, l^g^l^ refrigerating apparatus, would be ! *S!§S? P feature of the scheme. The meat fgpwould be sent Jo this establishment ■*[0? from Scotland. One of the recognised difficulties of managing a business of this, kind is the liability which proprietors have to run of being cheated by. their employees, such is the unfortunate character of many of the men ■ employed in the trade. This has been puti^ before Australians over acd over again. Tho case brought by' Messrs — - . JbhnEoae and Co., the frozen meat :■-',." purveyors, against two of their assiatants'lately, shows an instance of this .-; The manager told me that he had to" the best part of ten days' danc, . ing attendance at the court to prosecute the defaulters, who received condign . punishment. One of the ways by which these men robbed their masters , was to send in small boys for penceworth of meat. Instead of this, j in»B were handed over and then taken to the houses of the "mon, who sold the 1 meat in the evenings/ .The manage^ ona^vaj;, andjjpolher.lfe 1 * /»nas baen robbed *®the of 'LIOOO - - or 90, astbe systerlfTws' been goiog on - for yearl, --'Yet "this gen'.leman is a .smart man of businesp, and may be expected to deal with all the exigeneies of a large and complicated con-, -" nection. — « Pastoraliata' Review.' -: . THE GENEBAI. PURPOSE COW . The best cow for the farmer ia one that is good at the pail, and that •win fattea readily when her career in the dairy i 8 „ oren By most of thosa who have written I onthissubjectsuch an animal ia regarded i as a myth, and they advocate the milking breeds for the dairy herd, and the beef breeds for those who raise cattle , , for the. batcher. By such people, the • fact is ignored that on very many ocgßeiona the shorthorns have proved *. the deepest milkers, and some h^rda of T this breed in the old country hava a n« long-established reput^.'don for their fo miik.ngqaaht.-eB, it is almoßfc an —axiom, that thP Hereford are bad • milker?, and yet one o{ tho pure Here _ tords Sported to Victoria many years » *• "go oy the late Mr William Lyall was . . exceptionally good milker, and throughout the Western district there is a considerable proportion of highgrade Hereforda in most of tho dairy herds. Another breed that is .regarded as a purely beef bresd is tho Dtvjn, and yet I have known some excellent milkers that were pure Dsvons. The quantity of milk was not so great aB in some other breeds, but it was very rich in butter fat. The diiry cow "owes much to education, Neglect will spoil a first-class cow, while the milk-yielding properties of any breed may ba developed by propar usage. Mr W. Houseman lately quoted the remarks of j a noted short-horn breeder which bear J on this point : — " I breed for bag as | well as for back and' beef." Of tl Is I ' gentleman's hard it is said that " they | filled the pail and paid the grazier, and «| they were withal hardy, prolific, and x g§ "comely cattle." The whole secret in raising a profitable dairy herd i 3 lo '• breed for bag as well aa for back and _ ' bjef." If our dairy farinejs would . ' * only exercisa some judgment in breed|^ng, "and put this formula into prcc',ice, RHH^ would be no need to plead in ||9fl^Brtf a gonera'-purposo eoff.— a^j
