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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4296, 20 August 1875, Page 4

The following letter'appears in the London Times .•'—Sir : Will you allow mo a few lines space to call attention at this seasonable time of the year to a process of preserving fodder for winter use little known, and, so far as I am aware, never practised in this country ? It gives as its product what is known all over the Austrian Empire as sour hay, which, I may add, I havo seen used extensively on many large estates. The process of making sour hay is not only exceedingly simple, but, in the event of a wet season, might be adopted in this humid climate with excellent effects, as neither drying winds nor sun are required. The green grass, green Indian corn, or ether fodder is simply crammed down into graves or trenches 4 feet wide and G feet to S feet deep, until it forms a compact mass up to tho surface, and the whole is then covered with a foot, or rather more, of earth, rounded over, so as to form a long mound. No salt is used, and the wetter the fodder goes the better. The preservation is complete, and when cut out with a hay spade in winter the fodder is of a rich brown colour, and exhales a slightly sour, but, on the whole, agreeable flavour. I beg to enclose you a sample made from green maize which I obtained in 1573 while travelling in Hungary for the Royal Agricultural Society.—l am, Sir, yours obediently, John Wkigutson. Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, June 9. As illustrating the kind of calls made on the members of the medical profession by members of friendly societies, a correspondent of the ll'iti'tara Tribune writes the following story:—"One night last week a medical gentleman was called upon rather late ; child very bad, come at once. Now, it happened that the doctor was away when this request was made, so that he could not attend to the case until next morning. Well, he went and asked to seo the child that was bo very bad. The mother called to some juveniles that were amusing themselves as youthful nature will, in tho vicinity of a combination of water and mother earth, 'Johnny, come here, the docthor wants to see you.' ' What is the matter with this child, he seems perfectly healthy,' ?uoth he of physic. ' Oh, my dear docthor, am afraid the poor child is inclined to be round Bhoulherea."

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