ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 999, 24 April 1891, Page 23

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Poultry Keeper (Auckland). — Potato parings make a nutritious food for poultry. The best way to prepare them is to boil them, and then pass them through a mincing machine. Mix a little bran, salt, and a spinkle of black pepper, and you will obtain a very fattening dish. Gardexer (Napier).—The best named varieties of Hollyhocks can ODly be obtained in the form of plants raise! from cuttings, though good varieties are obtainable from mixed packets of seed saved from superior flowers. T.T. (Hawera).—Camellias are much invigorated by- surface dressings of cow. or sheep manure. The former mixed with one and the latter with two parts of turfy loom, are less objectionable in appearance than if used alone, and an inch thickness encourages the roots to the surface; liberal waterings washing the manurial element into the soil. Shepherd (Waverley).—To prevent straining (or heaving) and inflammation in sheep after lambing, the following will be found very useful:—Laudanum, 3 drachms ; tincture of ohinchona, 2 drachms ; tincture of aconite (Fleming’s), 5 minima ; chlorate of potash, 1 drachm. Dissolve the potash in half a teacnpful of boiling water, then flll the cap with cold water, add the other ingredients, and the drench will be ready to administer immediately. L.L. (Kaikonra).— -A good remedy for worms in a mare is as follows Santonine, 2 drachms ; tarter emetic, 4 drachms ; rub the santonine to a fine powder in a mortar, then add the tartar emetic and three ounces of oatmeal, mix them thoroughly, and give in three powders. Give the mare one of these each week for three weeks in a little wet bran, after she has been fasting for eight or twelve hours, and give no other food for two hours after.