GLEANINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1419, 1 February 1879, Page 15

GLEANINGS.

Over-fed fowls won't lay eggs. Education of children is money lent at a hundred per cent, A Bpoouful of horse-radish m a pan of milk will keep it sweet for several days, either in the open air or in a cellar, A bad animal eats as much as a good one, and this law of agricultural economy holds good throughout, whether we have to do with cows, horses, poultry, rabbits, or what not.

Cream grows more difficult to churn as distance from the time of calving increases, and the difficulty is enhanced by feeding late cut or ripe fodder. If early- cut hay and roots are used for winter food there will be no trouble with churning in the winter, though it wi'l require a little more time than when the cows live ou grass and are nearer the time of coming in. It is said that, of all other creatures, the borao has the smallest stomach relatively to its size. Had he the complex ruminating stomach of the ox he would not at all times be ready for exertion. The stomach of the horse is not so capacious, even when diatended, as to impede the wind or speed, and the food passes onward with a greater degree of regularity than in any other animal. In eight or teu minutes after a horse drinks a bucket of water it has passed entirely out of his stomach into the large intestine. Hens may be prevented from sitting, if they should manifest this desire too frequently, by shutting them in a small dark bog for a few days in a corner of the ground, without any nest, and feeding them abundantly during the time of their confinement. Of courße caro must be taken that air is admitted. Some consider that this end is better eecured by leav ng the hen without food, though always giving it plenty of water; while not unfrequently the practico is adopted of dipping the poor creature in cold water. It is always well to know how th<3 desire of incubation, if frequently recurring, m&y be prevented ; but it should never be forgotten that to debar the hen from, sitting entirely would be very injurious to her health, and destructive to her laying.