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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8631, 29 July 1891, Page 3

ff" 1 ,' i , ■ ' -sag In one of his letters to the Scotsman, on the " Potato Plague in Ireland," Mr. James Macdonald gives the following description of an Irish farm-house and its happy family. The house was on a small farm on the M'Gillicuddy Reeks in County Kerry : —"I was hospitably invited to join at the family dinner of one of these Kerry mountain farmers high up on the Reeks. It was a comfortable house of the class, one long room; quite l. r )fb long and 10ft or lift wiuG, with earthen floor and hanging chimney. Chairs with straw-woven bottoms made comfortable seats. In the one corner near the cosy turf fire was the dinner-table with its plentiful supply of potftbocsand milk waiting the hungry family of eight. The opposite corner was the happy hunting-ground of a fine, big, white sow and her splendid lob of little ones. A very handsome sow she was; of the large Yorkshire type, almost good enough for Sanders Spencer himself. And she was as well-mannered as she was handsome, and a good disciplinarian to boob, for during the dinner I could not but admire the irreproachable habits of that happy porcine family. The dinner table was covered with a piece of canvas, and in the centre was turned out in an inviting heap a huge potful of woll-grow.u champions, with their jackots burst just as they ought to be, and as floury and well-flavoured as the most fastidious Irishman could desire. With these potatoes ad lib and a bountiful supply of milk, the rosy children and growing lads and lasses made a hearty meal. The mention of milk will, no doubt, interest dairy authorities, who are now so plentiful, and who would perhaps like bo know something of the dairy management on an average farm on the Kerry mountains. There are eight cows—of the small Kerry breod —in this dairy, and there is an excellent market for the produce. It is all consumed on the premises. Little attention is paid to the system of setting, for ib is not allowed to sit long. Fastidious dairy authorities would probably say that, in the circumstances, it is just as well that this should bo so. The milk-house is a spacious cupboard right over the corner assigned to the social sow and her numerous tribe of young ones," This bust Mudioink known is Sandku AN» Son's Eucalypti Extract.— Test its eminent powerful effects In coughs, colds, influenza; tlio relief is iinstanU tumuli. In serious cases anil accidents of all kinds, bo they wounds, burns, Mouldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. like surprising uifocts produced in croup diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, <fce , diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the Kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all orer the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with modal anddiplomaatlnternaMoual Exhibition, Amsterdam Trust iu Hus ujHHuml article, and. reject all others.