NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 43

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Question! for reply in coming issue to bo Mixed sot later than SATURDAY night. Questions will NOT bo replied to through the post.

**X 2,” Cardrona, asks how many can be counted at cribbage for a hand comprising two 3‘s, a 4, and a 5, with 3 turned up on the pack. He can only make 19 out of it, but is told that a count of 19 with five cards is not possible. The count is 21, as follows:—Fifteen 6; pair royal, 6; three Tons of three each (3, 4,5), 9; —total, 21. •Nature Study,” Haungatua, sends specimen grown in a manured border. The growth is rapid and similar to mushroom, and asks for information, etc. Agricola replies,-, I have just time to state briefly that it is a fungus, which lives on dead or decaying organic matter, and i 3 distinguished as one of the saprophlytes (sapros, rotten; phuton, a plant). Vide next week’s issue. ‘‘Episco.”—(l) There are no fees for baptism or burial, and as far as marriages are concerned people give what they wish. A clergyman is entitled to retain such offerings. (2) Naturally the clergyman who performs fifty such ceremonies is in a better financial position than one who only performs six as stated in your argument. •'Enquirer,” Waikaka, asks: (1) Where he can get certain information about conditions of life, climate, and general topography of Western Australia? (2) Whether the country is suitable for sheep anu cattle industry? Practically all the information is given concisely in the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, where you will find maps, graphs, and diagrams, with particulars of each State concerning the physiography, population, vital statistics, land tenure, and settlement, agricultural, pastoral and dairying production, forestry, fishing, mine 3 and mining, manufactures and industries, water ooneervation and irrigation, railways and telegraphs, State finance, local Government, labour, wages-, and prioes. Probably you will find a copy of the book in the nearest library. G) Not too well off for livers. The number of horses in Western Australia in 1920, 178,661; cattle, £49,803; shoep, 6,532,965. Wheat-growing for grain is the most extensive form of cultivation. “Anxious,” Pukerau, wishes to know the cause and treatment of his sick horse. He is a gelding, twelve years old, never been ill till the present. On the 19th May he would not eat his food, and for a week he ate very little, only a little grass. On the 19th and 20th ho stood with his head down, then he started lying down, and sometimes stretching himself right out, but did not seem to be in any pain. Then 'he came back to his foed for about ten days, when the same thing happened, lying down and stretching but no pain. Then he came back to his feed again, but started to swell along the belly, his sheatli being particularly large. The swelling is now down, but he is off his feed again. He rvas working right up to the time he took ill. He ate his food the night before, but would not touch it next morning. 1 have been feeding chaff, bran, and swede turnips. Tbe “vet.” found it difficult to determine just what is the trouble, but is of opinion that indigestion may account for symptoms, as the intermittent spells of sickness point in that direction. It is suggested that you make sure the chaff is sweet and good. Give horse a dose of raw linseed oil, one pint with an ounce of spirits of nitre. Follow this in a couple of days with a dose cf Epsom salts (one packet).