MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1896, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

When cowe have boen long in milk, churning is difficult, because the milk has

become glutinous and the fab globules will not cohere. Heating dissolves them and increases the fluidity of the cream.

In England tomato plants have been grafted on potato plants, giving a crop of tomatoes above ground and potaboea below. Potatoes grafted on tomatoes have produced flowers, tomatoes, and a few tubers. An experiment in this direction was made during the past* season ab an American experimental station. Two tubers were planted in separate pots in March, and when about four to rive inches high the plant was cub off half an inch from the level of the soil, and a graft of a. tomato plant introduced on May Bth. The result was that the potato, nourished by the tomato planb above ground, produced a crop of potatoes in the pot, and also the tomato plant above ground produced a fairly good crop of tomatoes, nourished by the potato roots in the pot.

The individuality of the cow is the chief factor in determining the richness of her milk. She is influenced in the matter by other causes, and may vary the quality of her milk from times to time by reason of them, but the dominance of her own individuality is so paramount that the other factors arc, relatively, of bub little importance. If the dairyman desires richness in fat rather than quantity of milk, he can better attain his end by selecting cows whose milk tests high, rather than by attempting by any system of feeding and care to increase the per cent, of fat in cowb whose milk is naturally poor. Tho.quality of the milk is a characteristic permanently fixed at birth for each cow, and one thab is susceptible to modification within narrow limits only.

Cull oub the old sheep, the ' weedy,' and those which do not produce a good class of wool, arid sell them for what they will bring. The farmei who Bella the beet of hia stock and keeps the worst for himself is uob ab all likely to succeed. When an animal is fab enough for the butcher— unless it is a superior stud animal—sell it, else it will loao condibion and will roquire to bo kepb for a long time eating tood that would fatton another beast, and losing interest on its previous value. Sell every animal beforo it gets old and poor— it docs nob pay to keep antiquities on a farm. Fowls should be sold before they are three years old, cockerels before they ore four months old, sheep before they are rive years old, catdle beforo they are four years (unless kept for stud), horsoa before they are seven. The man who keeps none but young, vigorous, healthy, good stock is the man who cannofa fail to Buccoed aa a farmer. The only things that should grow old upon a furm arc the farmer himself, his wife and his children after him.—'Garden and Field.'