NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2119, 6 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Whkn to Eat Frttit.— Fruits, to do their best work, should be eaten on an empty stomach or simply with breadnever with vegetables. In the morning, before the fast of the night has been broken, they are uot only exceedingly refreshing, but they serve as a natural stimulus to the digestive organs. And to produce their fullest, finest, effect, they should be ripe, sound, and every way of good quality ; moreover, they ehould be eaten raw. What is better than a bunch of luscious grapes or a plate of berries or cherries on a summer morning, the first thing on sitting down to breakfast ? Or a fine ripe apple, rich and juicy, eaten in tho pame way ? In our climate apples should constitute not the finishing, but the beginning of the meal, particularly the breakfast, for at least four months iv the year; and fruits, raw or cooked,

should make a part of the morning 1 and evening meal (provided suppers are eaten) during the entire year. Mkki.sos. — It is frequently stated thnt Meriuo frheep art 1 light feeders compared with the mutton breeds. An e.xpmmont w.i. mado List winter at the Miehijrau Agricultural College farm, where five Meiino sheep, weighing 435 pound?, were fed in ono lot, nnd live Southdown hheep, weighing 080 pound*, in another lot. The r-tf.irt was made to feed just what they would eat clean. Although tho lot of Suitthdowub were 213 pounds heavier m tlm nggregate, yet thny did not consume moro hay than the Merinos. " Histokv Reitath Itsklk "—The following lines occur in Lord Byion's famous poem "Don Juan," written more than sixty years ago: — " Gentlemen farmers," a race worn out quite, Since Litnly there have been no rent at all; ' And " gentlemen "' are in a piteous plight, And "farmers" can't raise- Cere* from her fan.