GLEANINGS,

Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 8

GLEANINGS,

Six European Countries have 'placed an embargo' upon the Importation of Amerioan pork, owing to the trichibsß ,scare— viz., Spain, I P.orfagal, Italy; France, Greece, and Switzerland. ' ''■ ;, •'*. „' , ' ! ' " One hundred and fifty-three of the Duke of Portland's fine deer at Welbeck Park have died, within a few months, eaten up by ( jbate'stlnal ,t, t parasites, and the disease is spreading to other deer forests. Mr'W,. F. Balrymple, of Dakota, America, states that' his firm on 24,000 acres of land last year HkUed 600 000 bushels of wheat at a clear •profit ef L 60.000. Australia possesses 14 species of vitis ; most ' of them are to be found on the North coast and in Queensland. ■ Of the seeds sent to the Ade> laide Botanic Gardens from New Zealand about 35 have germinated, and the plants promise well;-

•'-'■ The' beit. butter maker in the world (says a ,'eontribhtor'to a' contemporary) will fail to get ; Bwt qnilfty butter if the cows are milked in a tlirty «tibl«. When milk is once contaminated,' "ncjthiig 1 etui be done which will entirely remove

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, Oft* 'of the best deodorisers in stables la ground plafttw. It may be ' sprinkled about ' the -stalls and orir the tnanhre heap daily.' It will absorb ' ths ainmohiafeal odciuts and 'retain them, thus 1 inorMising fhe Value of the dr&iing.' ' '; ' of z^mturkablo efz& and wgonr, and io • nambert almoft ainoantihg to aplagne; visited ' bouis of the country diutriofa of 'England and Scotland* during the recent exceptionally hot 1 weather. : ' ' "' ' - '

, ; A story of an American butter fraud is told by Moore's Rural New Yorker, A Michigan • ftinner had been detected in selling rolls of 'butfcir which had been made' hollow, filled with '•' watur, and frozen solid. ' < ' Sir Hariry Allaopp's Third Dake of Hillhurst (30,975), haying become unserviceable, has been '" oli»KfjkJte«"ed at tbe »ge of sine ve»rs. This boll waltasd 3000 guineas at the Donmore sale in 1878. ■A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, 1 writing of the winter's destruction of oattle in *>Kansat- by hunger and cold, says he counted ' over 1000 dead animals along the line of the AtoblsonV Topeka, and Sante Fe railroad, between Dodge oity and La Junta. Mr Vaughan, of Storey lane, Bitterley, near Ludlow, baa in his possession a very prolific cow..: Thi« oow has had the extraordinary number of nix calves within two years. Five of the calves are alive and doing well, whilst tho sixth has been fed fat and sold to the butchor, , • . Lambs from ewes feeding upon turnips are lometinws born dead, from the accumulation .of too 'much "water in the womb, but. one crop of turnips may produoe this result while another may not. Muoh depends upon the nature of the land on whioh the crops are grown. If the ground is in good order, parsnips may now be sown. As thii is perhaps one of r the tardiest roots under cultivation, .it will not be . injured by adverse weather so lone; as precautions are taken to prevent the seed being lifted by frost Some stoekownsrd maintain that breeding ew>»s maybe f-d with irnpiinifcy upon turnips nt ™y V.w, *....» „fi,,, P , {.j,,, q jit> , IL 4,5,,. , n , Ti«iT fit iuo uaac, a- -I s.i,&.(v&.\*' ouaoiuu c initenceg may be dted on both sides of tho