Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1892, Page 2

Tho January issue of the " N3w Zealand Farmer" always assumes to a certain extent the character of a holiday number, and this year as usual there are special literary features in keeping with the fesbive season. Still business is nob by any means overlooked, as may bo gathered by the titles of the following articles in the number just published and now before us. "The Smut of Oats," "Treatment of Footrot in Sheep," " Breeding for Wool in ! the North," a short) bub thoroughly practical articlo dealing with the causes for tho lower soiling value of Auckland wool as compared with Southern prices. Other articles treat of oor butter export trade, a new kind of disc churn lately exhibited in England, tho spraying of fruit trees for fungoid blights, the management of lemon and orange plantations, by Mr Dobbie, of Whangaroi, two excellent contributions on poultry management, etc. The illustrations include a special engraving by a French artist, entitled "A Mouthful of Hay," depicting „ young woman in a field with an armful of hay, feeding a group of cattle. There aro two splendid engravings of pure bred Hampshire Down sheep, a portrait of tho cele--bratod St. Bernard dog Plinlimmon, and; another of a pure bred trumpeter pigeon. \ There is also a collection of Xmas stories,; versos and games, and a Xmas letter from' "Uncle Ned" to his nephews and nieces! in connection with the Children's Postj Office department of the journal. Wehavoj only enumerated a small part of the oon-j tents of a thoroughly good number.