MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 300, 18 December 1895, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

If kept in a thrifty condition, a boar may be usod for Bervico when seven months old.

Do not expect to make pigs profitable unless paina are taken to make them comfortable.

A little turpentine given in bhe slop food two or three timoa will aid in securing better health in pige.

It has come to be quite a common opinion among horse breeders thab inbreoding may safely be pursued as long as the vigour and vitality of the stock is kept up to its proper level and hereditary weaknesses are not thereby aggravated. There is, however, always danger that thia resnlo muy ensue whore this practice is persisted in too long, and tho watchful care of the brooder is necessary to prevent such an occurrence. Wherever this ia tho case, resort should immediately bo had to a stronger cros"s. Thia will usually result in restoring tho losb vitality, and frequently in impart ing new qualities that will bo invaluable. The largest creamery in the world is situated at Sb. Alban's, Vermont. A few farmorn and business men of Frnnklin County organised a company in October, 1890. Tli6 building 3 and plant are of the K»osb improved kind. From 12,0001b to 20,0001b of butter per day are manufactured in summer, and about half thab quantity in winter. The milk is gathered at sixty-four eaparating or skimming stations, whence tho cream aloae is shipped by waggon or train to tho large central creamory. By this method experts of the highest skill can be procured, and a product of uniform qcality can bo turned out at a minimum expense. Thin is in line with the moat succopsful manufacturing industrios.

The Toronto "Weekly Globo " sayg : — " A correspondent of ' Hoard's Dairyman ' having said he had alwsyo to look twice to see whether a Jersey cow had nn udder or nofc, Mr 11. fc>. Matfcoson measured tho u'Jdora of some of his .Jersey herd, Here is the result: —A six-3'enr-old cow moeeuroa forty-five inches around her uddor. Her front teats are at tho ends nine inchon apart, the hind teats seven inches apart, and the front an;! hind toata seven inches apart, Throe-year-olds have measured from thirty eight to forty inches around uddor.?, and distance botweon teatn in ratio to the fcize around, aboufi the eama as thab of the eix-year-old cow. The six-year-old ab the timo of writing was giving 321b ot milk per day, with this ration : Good, nice, early cut hay of mixed graces, three quarts of corn meal and bran, mixed equal partic by weight, and 201b skim milk. Tho Babcock test sayß her milk was five per cent fab. In June she has given 161b of milk por day, tvith grass and skim milk for her ration. The three-year old heifors wero giving from 191b to 241b per dny on ration the fame as the six-year-old, except not quite so much skim-milk. Anyone who would have to look twice to see udders like these must bo afflicted with imperfect

vision."