NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2272, 16 September 1897, Page 38

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Questions for reply in coming issue to be received not later than Monday night.

Tutu Poisoning — " T. M," Glenmurray, writes : I noticed in an Auckland paper obout three years ago a correspondent wrote he bad cured his cattle of tupek* (tutu) poisoning by the use of a gill of.kerosene in half a bottle of milk-warm water. I have seen it tried, aud it seems to be a mest effective antidote to the poison ; it was the tree tutu. P. J. J. — Charivari is the French for the clattering of pote and pans. It was the name assumed by the French illustrated satirical journal pub'i-shed in 3832 and edited by woll-known Fiench humorists. Twenty-six Years' Subscriber. — You would find it far more .saticfactory iv the long run to feud the plate to a dentist's. However, if you Would lather experiment youiself the followiug is a cement suitable for the purpose :—" Melt together in an iron pan two 'parts of common pitch and one of guttapercha. ; stir them. woll together until' thoroughly incorporated,' and then pour thelignid into cold water When cold it is black, solid, and elastic ; but it soften* with heat, alid-at 100 leg F. (38'Jeg C.) is a thin fluid." It may be used^a. a;%of(? paste or.iaa liquid state, and *»'r>swer# tant 'an excellent puipose in cementiiig ibetal, glass, porcelain, ivory, etc. It may be used instead of putty in glaz-ng windows. An Old Colonial. — By taking proper stepa your neighbour may compel you to join in the conversion of the present fence into a rabbit-proof fence. Ajax. — The only ground on which B could justify cutting down the trees would be on the ground that they obstructed his use of ther.iad. 'J he cutting down of the trees by B s ems to be a wholly unjustifiable wrong, for which A will have a remedy by action. J. D., Catlins. — You do not say what securi<y you have to offer, and in any case it i- optional with the department to accept or reruee it. O. S. R.— Juggetnaut w a Hindu idol. . On one of the festivals he is dragged ,on a ' car to his country hou-e, a mile distant from tbe temple. This car festival has been currently believed to be tbe occasion of numerous cates of selfimmolation, frantic devotees committing suicide by throwing themselves under tbe heavy cars. Hence the expression which has puzzled you. ' „*■ Maungatua. — The inopector of sverghtß and measures. Send a Dote to the office in DuDedin, and it will be attended to. Novice — "Slip" replies lo your quejy as follows : It is impossible in a diagram to show the

position we generally occupy in the cricket field, for the rcasen that the positions vary 'according to the style of bosvling that is employed. For instance, very fast bowlers like Richardson and Jones have sevtral fieldsmen in tbe slips, aud in recant years the adoption by bowl«rs of the "off theory" has upset many previously entertain' d ideas of how a field • should be placed ; it being no uncommon thing with a bowler practising the " off theory " to see a solitary fieldsman on th<? an. - , • A. Richa-dson.— JMr Beverly kindly replies :— Root's blower w a~rot;uy force pump, and is only used \vh«re the blast requires to be delivered at high pressure, 31b or 41b per square inch. A fan gives about box per square inch. The speed and power reg lired are both variable, ant with the same tuycie tbe power Varies as

the square of the speed. The'water wheel you sketch should give about 1J h.p. N.Z Subscriber —Mr Beverly replies :— A Californian pump cap»We of lifting 2 beads of water sft should be 10ft or 12ft loog, 14in wide, and Bin deep, and the floats or buckets should

travel at the rate of 3ft per second. It will require about 2 h.p. to drive it. You say nothing about what fall or velocity of current you have to drive the wheel. Suppose you have 4ft fall, or 4ft deep in the penstock, a Equare ; foot of opening under the sluice, say 6in x 2ft, will give the required pow^r with an undershot wheel If the wheel is 10ft diameter it will make about 13 revolutions per minute, and the shaft of the pump will make about 26 revolutions per minute, so that the drum will be twice thediameter of the pulley. A. B. C. — A man is not cqmpellable to support his wife's father, but the wife would be compelUble, provided she were of ability to do so. Husband — (1) Articles given to a wife before or after marriage ca«uot be seized for tbe husband's debts. (2) Property bought and paid for by tbe wife with her own money .ne not seizable for the husband's debts. (3) A settlement of property made by the husband in favour of his wife becomes void if the debtor becomes bankrupt within one year after the date of such settlement, and is liable to be set aside bt the assignee if made within time years beforr the bankruptcy, unless the debtor can prove that he was able to pay all his debts at the time he made the settlement without the aid of the settled property. Anxious, Pohuka.— lt is optional with the Land Board either to allow valuation for the crop or to give time to remove it, but if the lessee is -in arrears with rent, sufeh arrears are a first charge on the crop and other improvements. A. G. F.— We do not reply to queries by post. See answer in sporting. Hope, Livingstons. — The mineral a sample of which you forward is gypsum, hydrosulphate of lime, and is of no value. P. I!., Hamilton. — Federation is simply the combination of a number of States to form one ■united Government for the whole The United States, Germany, Switzerland, and the Dominion of Canada ate examples ; or if you would like an example nearer home, while the proviucial system was in force in this colony the Geaeral Government •vyas practically a federal Government, the combination of tbe provinces under it comprising a federation. When federation comes into force in Australia, each State will continue to attend to its own particular affairs, but the Government of the commonwealth vrill deal with questions in which the whele of the colonies are interested — such as postal, railway, and telegraph matteis, fiscal questions, <fee. PRESBYTERIAN. — We do not see that any good object would be served by a continuance of tbe correspondence. We therefore withhold your letter headed "Ecclesiastical War in Maniototo."

J. D., Feilding. — The subject will be dealt with

by " Agricola" in Notes on Rural Topics. TYKO.— " Aristotle's Ethics " (-cott). 2s, or WardLock's " Self Instructor," Is- 6d, at Braith-

waite's Book Ar<-ade, would probably answer

your requirements. Subscriber, Winton.— ludiarubber is collected by making incisions in the trunks of the trees, the juice bting caught in clay basins. It i% spread out and dried in thin layers in the sun or in the smoke of fires, or it is coagulated by leaves of a kind of vine. A good tree will yield 4oz of juice daily, or 20gAl in a season, a gallon producing 21b of good rubber. It is then boiled in large tanks" to soften and purify it, theu_ put through powerful machines which masticate . and reduce it to shreds, a stream of water being ' kept constantly running over it. It is then i rolled out into thin sheets and dried arti-

ficially. . Subscriber, Waikawa.— (l) *The following is a simple mode of making cheese for family use :— Set a tub of new milk in a warm place. Curdle it by dissolving a little rennet in hot water and adding it to the milk. It should curdle in six or eight houra. When well curdled strain off the whey, and break lip the cunis email with tho hands ; heap it ud in little heaps, so that it may drain well ; add" a • handful of salt, mixing

it well ; let it stand for two or three hour*, and break it small again. Then put a cheese cloth into a cheese vat (* little perforatacl tub the size of the intended cheese), and fill it with the curd. A board must then be placed upon the top, and pressure applied gradually, commencing with 4cwt or scwt, and leaching to a ton the second day. Turn ihe cheese aud press further for a day. Turn it out and grease it well after dipping in brine, aud place it on a dcy, cool shelf to ripen, turning it every day for a month or two. (2) See answer in this week's Ladies' p*ge. If you do 'not care, about the caustic potash, perhapa the following method will suit yon :— Pour 12 quarts of soft water (boilini?) on 241b unslaked lime ; dissolve 61b sal soda in 12 quarts of hot, soft water ; then mix, aud fctantl for from 12 to 24 hours. Then pour off all the clear fluid, being caieful not to let the sediment lun off. Boil 3}lb of clsar -grease and 3Jlb of resin in the lye until the grease disappears ; then pour into a box, let it stand a day, and cut into bars. Novice.— The question of the bind of fence te be erected is detemiinable by a magistrate when the owners cannot agree. Theie is nothing in tbe ace as to sheep-proof fences, but as a matter of common sense a fence should be sufficient to prove a bar to the passage of both cattle and sheep.