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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12470, 22 February 1909, Page 3

A bishop was staying with a friend in a country house. On Sunday morning, as he passed through the library, he found a small boy curled up in a big chair, deeply interested in a book. "Are you going to church, Tom?" he asked. "No, sir," hereplied, "Why. I ani," said the bishop. "Huh," said theboy, "you've got to go. It's your jobr " ■■• ; -- •- - A-worthy vicar in a rural Darisli! who had waxed eloquent in the inter-" 3st lof foreign missions one Sunday "was surprised' on entering the village shop' dilririg the week to be greeted witlv marked coldness by -the old dame who keptit. On asking the cause the good woman produced half a crown from a drawer, and throwing'it down' before Him, said, 1 "I marked that coin, and put it in' the plate last Sunday> and here it is back in my shop! . Iknpwed' (veil them niggers never got the money." „' .;. An interesting feature at Prince Ludwg's farm at Sarvar, in Hungary, is the system of utilising skim milk for the rearing of calves. A homogeniser is used . for adding animal fat to the milk frbm : which the cream had been extracted, and 'as the quantity of fat can be regulated at will, the. system answers effectively, and produces economical results.- The calves are takon off the calves at about eight days old, and receive one seventh of their live weight of the artificially enriched milk daily. _As showing the headway that the industry has ; made in Hungary in recent years, it may be' : mentioned that the number of co-operative dairies has thrown from thirty-four in 1897 to §51 last year, and nearly 700 this year, while the membership, in 1897 was 2767, and last year 62,156. ;