MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1895, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The weather of the pasb week has been so, web aa to practically stop all regular farm work. , , ' If possible use a bull with a record tor giving good milking stock, and he should be as nearly as possible pure bred. For dairy purposes select Jersey, Ayrshire, or a milking strain Shorthorn. There are in v the United States at present 6,000,000 farms.: About one-half of the population of the Republic, or over 30,000,000 people, live on them, and these farm-dwellers furnish more than 74 per cent, of the total value'of the exportßof the country. ' . .■'"_. ■ The New South Wales Sheep Breeders' Association has secured a very satisfactory entry for its inaugural "show. It should^ be the means.of showing beginpera in crossbreeding the points of merib in the various breeds, and ib will also be the means of increasing the long-wool sheep. In South Australia there are eight acres of tilled grouud per head of population, a proportion much greater than in 'the other Australian colonies, which is :—Victoria, 2-32 acres ; New South Wales, 1 '01 acres ; Queensland, 063 acres ; and Western Australia, 0/18 acres. Tasmonia cultivates 3-89 perTiea'd, and New Zealand 2-47 acres. —" Capricornian." ;.,,: Germany is reported to show a disposition to remove the embargo placed -\on the importation of American live cattle and meat products, in consequence of the rigorous law passed by the United .States Congresß forbidding the clearance of any vessel carrying cattle or meat products without a proper certificate of inspection, which is only given after a complete and rigid examination. In consequence of the injustice done to northern cattle breeders and feede.s'by the practicoof meat retailers in London passing oil upon thoir customers foreign beef for "prime Scots," a meeting of representative landowners and farmers in Aberdeen have resolved bo fdr.mScompaoy whose hr-.-ino-s ib would be to buy county fed

i '. and retail the meat in London in i,.. < own shops, thus doing away with the middleman.

The ateamer Southern Cross -is due ab Sydney to load aboub 700 head of live cattle for the English markets. Severel experts recently engaged in the River Plate trade have beeb secured and are now on the spob making the necessary orrangements for shipment. This will be far the largest shipment of live stock from Australian shores, and every precaution ia being taken to ensure success, in order that the live stock export trade may be thoroughly tested. Seeing the magnitude of the venture, the r_.-_li.s will, no cloubb, be watched with kc < '^interest, alike by consignors, signoe., -nil those interested in the breeding of stock. No sensible man, says the " Breeders' Gazette," will ever whip a horeo for being afraid. Whips are undoubt.odiy good things in their places. They come in well with a constitutionally lazy horse. They are vory effective somebimos when horses aro mischievous. A horse had a habit, aa soon as his bedding, was put under him of scraping it all oub to tho stall behind him. He was watched, and at every attempt a vigorous application of tho whip to his rear waa made. In bwo nighta he was thoroughly broken of the trick. If tho personal safoty of the occupants of a vehicle ia endangered through a horse backing or turning around use the whip vigorously ; it will divert his attention. Never use the whip withoub warning, and never use it to cure a horse of fright j if you do, bebwoen tho whipping and the tear he will Boon become unmanageable when he meets the object he dreads.