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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 822, 8 March 1909, Page 1

; NEWSY NOTES. The ideal dairy cow must commence | with the calf. I * { Warm stalls ai'e comfortable and spare fodder. ! * i Even the best cows vary from year . to year in their butterfat production. ! * | The better food you feed to stock the more careful you should be of the ; manure. » ! * i A 6tone jar is a good cream receptacle into which to skim the cream \ f for churning. I •* i The great irrigation scheme in Southern Aluerta will cover 3,000,000 ' acres, and will cost £1,000,000. j Shelter must be provided for cows ! in winter, and the best shelter is a ! good strawstack in the grass paddock i or about the homestead. I * Members of the Plymouth Boys' j Brigade (England) are being trained i fortnightly in the elements of tiro I brigade work. "Do you know anything about flirt. ing?" "No," he replied sadly, "I I thought I did, but when I tried it the girl married mo." •XThe New Minister: Do you know who I am, my little man? Little Willie: Certainly. Don't yon know who you are? *• "Now I calls it real 'andsqme of that motoring agent gent to give me a suvrin because 'c killed the pig. I wonder 'who's pig 'tis!" •K Mrs Henpeck: Did you miss me much when I was away? Mr Henpeck: Er, no, dear. I went to a lecture every night. * The Lancet advises golfers who are inclined to worry to give up the game and apply themselves to an exercise involving no particular skill, such as cycling or walking. * For shorthand and typewriting, j quickly don© at reasonable charges, 'Miss Mills, Manchester-street. Angelo Basso, a prominent member of the Italian colony in New _ York, has died leaving a fortune of £00,000. which he made by selling sandwiches for 40 years. At Bearsted, Kent, on January 19. William Pickard, a farmer, was sentenced to two months' hard labour for starving eighty sheep, more than a dozen of which died. •XMr J. Pierpont Morgan, of Now York, has presented to the British Museum the collection of 2500 prehistoric weapons brought together by Canon Greenwell. * More than 1100 skulls, many of which are centuries old, have been arranged on shelves in the crypt of Hythe Parish Church (England), and may be inspected by the public. •* Husband: After all. civilisation has its drawbacks. People in the savage state seldom get ill. Wife (sweetly) : I wonder if that's the reason you're so healthy? A notice left by Willesden Council collectors on ratepayers reads as follows: "The rates are now duo, and as no further call will be made, the amount must be paid every Monday. I except Bank Holiday." j * A policeman informed the Tower Bridge Magistrate that he had chased ; two men over no fewer than thirty garden fences. "They must have been 'done' after such a steeplechase," remarked the magistrate. A young Parisienne quarrelled with an old gentleman on an omnibus, and the vehicle was delayed for two hours while the conductor and tho twentysix passengers visited tho police station. ■XIf you have one or 100 articles you'd like to turn into money — advertise in the Stab. The Royal Commission on Afforestation declares that there are five million acres in the kingdom which it would be profitable to plant with trees, and that work might thereby be found for 100,000 unemployed. * The completion of the negotiations between the Victoria Falls Power Company and the Rand Mines, Ltd., makes the former company the largest electrical power company in the world. «* In a smoking contest held at the Walthamstow Baths (London), Mr G. Smith smoked an eighth of an ounce of shag for two hours and fifty minutes without letting his pipe go out. Four hundred men competed for twenty-five prizes. Maior-General Alexeieff (retired), of the Russian Naval Artillery, is on trial by court-martial at St. Petersburg. Ho is charged with having accepted bribes amounting to £2000 from an agent of a British gun company during the Russo-Japanese war. * The School of Mechanical Flight organised by the National League of Aerial Science in Paris is -to open immediately. Four hundred and twen_ ty pupils have already entered, including 200 scholars from the State technical schools. * The shoemaker, William Voigt, better known as Captain Koepenick, intends to sue a lady well known in Berlin society, because she ceased to pay him the pension which she bestowed on him for life when he was released from prison in August last. Four hundred pounds was awarded at tfie Berks ABsizes on January 19 as damages to May Florence Furntval, a ten-year-old girl, who, through her father, a Newbury fishmonger, sued Mr J. H. Fox, an Australiar grazier living at Purton Wilts, foi compensation for injuries inflicted bj hie motor-car. Mr 'A. Warner, Stafford, N.Z., writes: "A few months ago whil« working in a store at TJtiku I had s severe attack of colic and diarrhoea As I was steadily growing worse J decided to try Ohambberlain'f Oolw Gholer* and Diarrhoea Remedy, «m< I was Bnrprised to find that it onl] took a few doses to cure me. »uj« then I have never lost an opportunifr to reoommend it to any of my mend suffering from the same complaint.' For »le by all ehemfefe and ttoce