Page 5 Advertisements Column 7

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9398, 3 January 1894, Page 5

i The Hartford Times recently gave some 9 interesting particulars concerning a, couple r of weaver turds owned In that city. One i of them came from Asia, and the other r from Australia. Although in captivity, t they weave their long pendent nests out of i the grasses furnished them. In their - native woods these birds often hang their f nest* from a slender branoh which over- * hangs some stream. This is done so that i the monkeys, who greatly relish the eggs , of birds, cannot get at them. Should an , adventurous and hungry monkey attempt i to reach a nest thus suspended, his weight i bends the slender branch, and he gets a - ducking for bis pains instead of the eggs he hoped for. >' - I A writer in the Live Stook Journal slates i that it has always been understood that the * Chinese were partial to puppies and birds' ' nests as edible dainties, and a oorrespon--9 dent says that the consumption of horse--3 flesh is rapidly increasing. The poorer 1 classes, it appears, have to be content with > the flesh from horses that are old jand f have been worked, while a special; breed is b fattened for the upper classes. For a I lengthened period the efforts 'of breeders I have been directed to rendering the animals i of this breed unfit lor work; and adapted: i only for fattening. These horses are small, * The following ; are some interesting ' ploughing calculations :•—A team walking * two miles per s hour s. for i tan hours will ' plough, according to the width of furrow V Furrow sin. wide, la; 6in., L2a j 7in., . 1.4 a; Bin., 1.6 a; 9in., 1.8 a; 10in., ; etc., increasing two-tenths of an acre for . each inch increase the width of farrow, i With a furrow 7in. wide a team must walk i 115 miles to plough an acre; with a furrow y Ift. wide a team will walk only 8.25 miles i, J to plough an acre, and in walking- twenty ' miles would plough nearly 2,5 a. r '