AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2195, 22 April 1874, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Otago. — In the Province of Otago there are 3,913 holdings of over one acre in extent ; the extent of land broken up bnt not under orop is 41,742£ acres; in wheat 50,068£ acres, yieldiug 1,489,711 bushels ; iv oats for green feed or hay, 11,132 acres ; for grain, 60,204g acres, yielding 2,002,794 bushels ; in barloy 8,890| acres, yielding 264,007 bushels; in hay 10,558 acres, yielding 16,9703 tons of hay, and 6,570 bushels of grass seed ; in pornmuont artificial grass (including land in half crop), 227,955£ acres; in potatoes 3,30:54 aores, yielding 15,43GJ tons } and 1«,714J acres in other crops. The total number of acres under crop, was 372,2984 acres. The quantities of last year's orop remaining on hand when the forms were Oiled up wore —89,716 bushels of wheat, 32,477 bushels of oats, aud 991 bushels of barley. Marlbobougu, — In the Province of Marlborough there are 320 holdings ; 2.73H acres broken np, but not nndor crop ; in wheat, 1,853.5 aores, yielding 30,373 bushels ; in oats, 693 j aores, for green feed or hay ; and for grain, 1,3154 aores, yielding 35,537 bushels; in barley, 2,301 \ acres, yielding 58,812 bushels; in hay, 695? acres, yielding 991 j tons; in permanent artificial grass, iucludiug the acreage in hay, 20,308 aores ; in potatoes 197J acres, yielding 1,012 tons; and in other crops, 125J acres. The total number of aci-us under crop, including sown grasses, 26,794? acres. The quantity of la9t year's crop remaining on hand when the forma were filled up were — wheat, 1,531 bushels ; oats, 1,030 bushels ; aud barley, 534 busholn.

Tkeatmbnt of DiniTHERiA with Calomel and Soda. — Dr. E. L. Duer, of Philadelphia, highly extols (American Supplement to Obstetrical Jcntrnal oj Great Britain and Ireland, July, 1873), the efficacy of small doses of calomel aud largo dosea of bicarbonate of soda, and the free use of nutritious food and brandy. He states that he has treated a large number of oases of all grades of severity by this plan, with satisfactory results, which he says was first suggested to him by Dr. Harlow. Two casos are related to illustrate ibis mode of treatment. Grace V., aged five, previously strong and well, after short prodomic symptoms and a marked chill, presented all the general aud local evidences of diphtheria. Her sister Alberta, aged seven, was taken sick the same morning, and presented an almost identical couditiou. The former had ten grains of chlorate of potassa every third hoar, as recommended by Yogel ; and the other one eighth of a grain of calomel and five grains of bicarbonate of soda. A weak solution of car. bolio acid ns a disinfectant was applied locally ; and the same supporting and stimulating plan was adopted in both cases. Tho following morning there was a little change in cither oase. On the evening of tho second day, however, there was the most marked improvement in Alberta, while Grace's symptoms showed little evidence of yielding. Dr. Duer now withdrew tho calomol and continued j the soda. By this time in this case, the false mombrane was coming away in detached fragments ; but in the other child there had as yet been no change fur tho better. On the evening of the fonrth day, Aiborta's tonsils wero again covered with false membrano ; calomel was again given for twenty-four hours, with the same positive result. From this time the soda was depended on entirely. At no time wan there the pytalism ; bHt as soon as the child had been long enough under the influence of the calomel, the false membrane seemed to yield up its connection with the tonsils, while at the same time the general symptoms seemed to abate. On tho morning of the fifth day, the temperature bad fallen to 99 deg., and the pulse to 00 dog., and from that time she steadily improved nnder the use of tonics and nutritious diet. On the other hand, Grace, to vrhom the chlorate of potash had been given, continued so ill that Dr. Duer substituted the calomel aud soda treatment on the fourth day, with a like immediate result so far as the local trouble was concerned ; but horconvalosence was tedious, and was BubseqnoDtly complicated with bilateral paralysis of the palate and lower limbs.