MISCELLANEOUS.

Lake County Press, Volume IX, Issue 468, 29 April 1880, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr Sergeant, speaking to the Hamilton farmers, said that 98 out of every 100 Melbourne cabmen feed their horses upon New Zealand oats, or New South Wales maize. The ‘Ballarat Courier ’ hints that “the root of the whole case lies in that prejudice which the freetraders of Melbourne have to the protective system which our farmers enjoy; and having, so to speak, their thumb on a number of the cabmen, or those retailers who supply the cabmen; by reason of their transactions not being always for cash, they force them to take the outside article, and so push the local product into the background, to the great injury of our own producers.” One v?ho Usually keeps several do2en horses informed us that lie occasionally fed sour apples to his horses with excellent results: they are a 1 certaincure for worms. He recommends from a half ro a whole pailful once a week. Another who has been in the practice of keeping a considerable number of horses on his farm, says that he has been in the habit of turning his horses into the orchard, where they could eat as many apples as they liked. He found that they derived much benefit from the feed, and gained flesh much more rapi lly than others which did not 1 receive an applefeed.