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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1892, Page 2

The January issue of the " Nsw Zealand Farmer" always assumes to a certain extent the character of a holiday number, and this year .is usual there aro special literary features in keeping with the feavlve season. Still business is nob by any means overlooked, a* may bo gathered by the titles of the following articles in tho number just published and now before us. "The Smut of Oats," "Treatment of Footrot in Sheep," " Breeding for Wool in the North," a short but thoroughly practical article dealing with the causes for the lower soiling value of Auckland wool as compared with Southern prices. Other articles treat of our butter 'export trade, a new kind of disc churn lately exhibited in England, the spraying of fruit trees for fungoid blights, tho management of lemon and orange plantations, by Mr Dobbte, of Whangaroi, two excellent contributions on poultry managetnent, etc. Tho illustrations include ■■ special onirraving by a French artist, ..-i:tttled "A Mouthful cf Hay," depicting f; young woman in n Held with an armful of boy, feeding a group of cattle.. There aro two splendid engravings of pure bred Hampshire Down sheep, a portrait of the celebrated Sb. Bernard dog Fltnlimmon, and. anethor of a pure bred trumpoter pigeon.' There is also a collection cf. Xmus Ntories, verses and games, and a Xmas letter from " Uncle Ned " to his nephews and nieces in connection with tlio Children's Poshj Office department of tho journal. Wehnvoj only enumerated a Pinal! part of bhe con-; tents of a thoroughly good number.