Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 6

Answers to Correspondents

“ Kathleen,” Alexandra.—Mrs McFarlane was 102 last Saturday. Mrs O. E. Nielson will not attain that age until °" t Drlpplng," Oamaru.—No Customs duty is payable in England on dripping sent from New Zealand. ~ . “ Money,” Romahapa.—Because of their comparative scarcity. 1935 threepences are valued by collectors as high as 4s “ Rock and Pillar.”—From the description given, your dog appears to be suffering from dyspepsia caused by unsuitable food.- Instead of raw meat the do? should be given cooked r fbbit, fish, tripe, or fowl. Make up the following.—Pure sulDhate of iron 12 grains, ''bicarbonate Sf soda 24 grains, and extract of mile 24 grains. Mix and divide into 12 -- pills. Give one pillA a^, f ° r fflor and then one every third day. This is for a dog 201 b or over; smaller ones, half the q “'Tnquirer," Gore.—The following is a method of preserving sugar bags:—The ingredients required are 1111 b sodium carhonate crystals, 101 b copper sulphate (bluestone) and 40 gafions of water. This quantity should be sufficient todo 50 bags die size of cement bags. Dissolve the bluestone in 35 gallons of water in a wooden vessel. Put 101 bin a sack and suspend in water. Leave o V£rnight and ■ by the next morning it should all be dissolved. Dissolve soda in, five fiafions of water in another vessel and add the soda solution slowly, while stirring, to bluestone solution. Stir well and in'” merse the material till the fabric an d stitching thread are thoroughly wet. “ More Than a Guess. —Obscure.