Agricultural Jottings.

Southland Times, Issue 8096, 26 August 1885, Page 4

Agricultural Jottings.

—■■ ■; — "W An excellent iubrWant fdr waggons is p9l-n oil, whichis thick and adhesive. It aay be 'improved: by adding to it an equal weight of black lead and thoroughly tnixiug it. A very small quantity may be used, For zosd wegf!oQ3 and buggies castor oil is an excellent übrfcsnt; . : Sulphur given ia tbe food will destroy lice - on Cftttle, •, The dose is a large tablespoonful •in about fdur quatte of b.-an or meal It may te -given- daily? provided it does not scour tbe Oattle, in tha' case not so often. If ihel.ee are verylnumercua you might dress the cattle with equal parts of kerosene and melted lard, using d hoiW brush lightly; v^^v-AiJa'lf is a. .foolish creature j it will drink ill "the. milk given to it, until completely gorged-. .This Mlk curdles in the stomacb, jjo. overburdened tbat it cannot act; this har i "■ inass'of^curd gradually gels into the bowels, ferments, decompose?, acd produces thosa jipasais 1 which caose the intense agoay exhibited, by the: poor weak- creature ia its distretefuljieroaha and moans. Tne real . fpoli*hnW is in' the oWner, wbo r e idea of flnthmetic i' that three quarts of milk is* good ; 4 . forjsbalfi six quarts is twice as good; but this is by no means a safe conclu lion in breeding . toinials of any k'nd.. '"<■ ■ The folio wiog is stated to be a good waterproof branding ink for marking sheep :— - Dbellao/v2o'z;, borax, 2oz ; water, 2doz; gum arabic, 2-z ; lampblack sufficient. Boil the borax and shellac in water till they are dissolved,.and withdraw from the fire. When -the 'solution 'has, become coldj complete 250z - with wafer, and add lampblack enough to bring the preparation to a suitable consistency, Wben it is to be used with a stencil, it mu6t be mad? thicker than when itis supplied with a brush. The above gives a black ink, For ted iuk substitute Venetian red for lampblack ) for blue, ultra-marine ; and for green, amiztuie of ultra-marine and chrome yellow.; a-. ■ -yy;... V" Z'ZZ . ' A Califdfnian writer says that posts painted With linseed oil and powdered charcoal wili last for years. He says : — " Put a coa*; of this mixture over the timber, and there is not a man Aiho will live to see it rot." You will -find the following .a very good- paint, and is impenetrable to water, and beptjmeslvery hard- through exposure to - :^e' sutfr— take'three-pintß of air-sheked " Bme^and one, pint, wood. a»hefl; sift through a fluur' sieve, and add as much boiled lin*eed oil as wJJl;biing it to a consistence for working with' '* painter's 'brush. Another recipe ; •—lv eight onrices:of £ood oil (boiled linseed) grind pne pound of uoslacked lime ; add two gallons of new piilk hnd fourteen poundsiof - ; 'Wbitin?. ' Jhe lajtTpaint will need renewing mcrtirequently^thanthe flwt,but for sheds or fencing it js ,vf fli: adapted, „ : The capital irivestedMn the daljfy %"f \ :ifi;the United ' States is cohtptiti^ ..usiriefs vSiie,ooo:6m'6lni '«nid'to ? ei(6»%'' ? > * tn he over :Aand:neari3o-QOO;cOo; hr zy* by :.7W,0g0 men WhbVoogW '; .'.yirses:, ;A,milker proaveiagecbwZfayZ'.A.;'w.;knowV says that jthe & .jyAw,yfc?y ,«?tds about 450 gallons of milk -ZhiQAA^y-i uigiortbe couutry a total prod act J-7' yjO,Qoft,oQo gallons. Twelve cents a gallon u ii ! afdrprice.'to estimate the value: of 'this yjinilkatrr-atbtal return ot 8l0,000,000dQls:to fe :; the" dauy^jfarmer* 1 - Fifty per ' cant, ofi the It takes yinbofmiikfe g 7 ~lolbbi iitfljr to make one. of cH^sev ;*The j-^ is Zy that;tto^-ih o|nerpf beef : "-, Afatateerifuribi-;. »ishes - 60i per cent, of boneleSi^bee, : but xt ... would require about 24,00(1 steei»,*w«ghmig 10001 b each, to produce the Same amount