FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XLI, Issue 3344, 2 December 1893, Page 3

FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

iMbglbijle by which' to distinguish butter -from margarine is to draw three or four pieces of ordinary sewing cotton, slightly twisted together, bo tested, set |jg£tjto*it, qaV almost immediately, and smell toe smoke. If it it will have the peculiar smell of a| newly extinguished tallow candle,(buti\with butterfthfcre* is niOsSuch sjaell.; 1 ,EL|dL W. U'X PBOSPECTS V F THE BUTTER MARKET.— Prospeots enough to please the shippers of butter. The price in |LondoUj» still; keeps high enough to| exportation. As an instance of this*we' fiad by-a.recent' telegram from our London correspondent that a portion of the shipment of butter, ex the R.M.S. Victoria," which left Sydney on 21st August, has been sold, realising from 106s to 114s per cwt. ,Tbe ; Bhipmerit< of Melbourne butter per R.M:S; iOrmuz;iwhUh Isluled from '2nd' oeptemier} realiseS 108s to 116s jconditionfwasi excellent. A buffer and cheese factory is being j.formed; ia.,Tpoley-street^,Lpndon, ( , with <v theob'jeot" of |' afforjiing <i er'j facilities to traded owing' principally to;r the: increase Ainf, tHS/f shipments' /off those products from the colonies; • (Already 60 subscribers have been'enrolled,— Australian (Paper. [ j,'o()j : i

A Home Made Filter.—An effectives and cheap filter may be thjis constructed Get; two [sound;(aiid jwell fill the one into which is inserted;'the spout, or inflow of water, about half' full of alternate*layers of gravel, ' gra'veli first,&ext^6 : inches of charcoal, then pebbles, then charcoal again, theifia few From the bottom of'this cask to the bottom' of . the jnext a,/connection- of il-.inch ;. gas pipe, ; andi>bend £ it so asitojtiselnian. elbow to about half way up the depth of the second cask, The cask is filled, ;with gravel aud charcoal, just the aamo as at firsts/: Thus tho ! the first l cask to'" about half way up the' second, cask, arid as it. gravitates .down-; war is a v ßeobrid' v At~ the bottom of this cask the water, now' twice filtered, is drawnoff for use. Waterfrom a punip,'. whether 'from a" well, river' or be as.readily..filtered in this,, ' f How to Make Poultoy'lKyl—We 1 of/attep| tion'to 5 the' subject; practical ' poultry^' and somehow just in the start of the breeding season, we feel a trifle practically inclined, we would like to mention another case of making poultry pay, but; on thisv occasion; ;the poultry! were, ducks, The] wife of 1 the" lnhdlord' of an hotel had a, yard somowhere, about by. In this yard she-kept'ducks'.': They- were' no particular breed; in fact, one might say they combined strains ,;'of all breeds.'" The only water they had 'was wliat ran from ordinary tap, in the ( yard, | They were always'well'fed. 1 The %gs'c6ußumed by the landlord and his wife were considered; equivalent pay.for the table scraps they got. , The niohoy . receded", for their eggs was put in to a box ,a n d 'th'e money that wa? neoessary for., their food,, was '{,itakeu.- -iroia'j it;? j The!? proprietress! states thatebe eg?s, and that?at^tlio"end/of 'feacK'-year there was Sufficient > mottey'in the feox : for herself to make a very-handsome Christmas, box;' ; -This lady-had-certainly a ? ; specialty' for ducks, because her ' towls never did look well. ,

Scour in Oalves;~F6w kinds of' food contain a larger Vpr6^tioa ! 6f ; tion required to make rapid growih lv than. milk does. Very, yaung;ipimal8 f find it 1 their exclusive' diet at' firslt/ aiiii the period when they are Buclding;' is ; ;wlm fl ;theyl groV" 'fastest;; But milk is not' 1 easy to digest;. •' The : young:' suckling aniinal 'gets 1 very little food at a time at first. Little and >of t&ri : i« '-its idle/tafd s if gets 'its ; food warm. This partly 'difficulty' ofdigestin'g' : - ifcjNeither ofVtbeae 4conditions is is'fedi'Mlt is often given colli,' and if the calf, sticking its noise into the' cold milk, refuses to eat, the feeder loses patience ' and : withdraws the milkpail, so, when Me./ calf. .becomeß_ ravenously hungry it will swallow a large) quantity of cold milk in the shortest possible time, fls-it ,any : wonder. organs' thus rehiW' tpJw and the ciil'f has tfiei ,' (r sconrs ?''" Givei the milk alw ays warm, and;, encourage the ;calf eat But of (Jer a.caji is: one ;inont;hj old," twice' 'a '"day 'feeijingfis 'beMer 'than" oftener., G.ive,a little good ( hay,tp,thecalf between .the' .'milk meals; 'and' ill will sion learn to eat that. ' ? Splints:-!'write-in a'Honie 'journal recommends the following treatment for the ; euro ;of Bpluits ; :^~Spiirit' : iarneness ; ia very commonly Out ? of 'all' proportion'to the size of the, exostosis, aud very frequentlyi.a;.teß. jgrowtfilseeirit. to occasion! very little inconvenience. Perhaps when the ;Blight. ; apparent, it; ia because' the eMargemeut hW been struck by the foot.o| theoppositelimb; f indeed,. this] is j often: the ./greatest!) danger splints of unusual magnitude. lodine will r -probably be. found a* better agent than embrocation for promoting absorption, and it wouldjnot (interfere with the horsed work ;any i more/than Jtbe liuim'ent does. Some tincture ,of iodine may be added,to,the best form pf:;,using,it is thut of aii ointmentrubbed .in w ; ith;vigouK,once or twice a week. A very small bit ;l of ointment, with .plenty pf friction, is, desirable. 4 j Jltv. may' ,be; prepared Is', Quo, Jraohm of .'re- 4 sublimed iodine and of p6t!awsiiim l drachras of lar^;' The s ' ;: c6mm6u,''''bone 'solvent"—a j solu. tibri ; of' of metcury inj f fepiritis of wine and; a iii6t Kiht6rfere work.' - "<

Pastoral Affair in Sooth A ustralia.—Pastoral affairs'are at'low ebb in South i Australia, /! The-' 'Moiihfc -Burrell fltatioDj; near -Alico Springs; consisting! of

) 2238 rquare miles, with leases having a term of 24 years from Ist October, 189.1| at a rental of half-a«crown a mile for the firs® iValiw|ioSi M'tye rest of aad approximately 1208 horses and 1763 head of mixed cattle, and the Oweri near /Alice Springs, • con! sistiu* of 1204| miles, with a term of 18 years "from ist April, 1893, at a rental of half-a-crown a mile for the lirai four years, and at a valuation for .the rest ofthe all impr6vementß, and a|prpMmatfely and 958! head mixed cattle, were recently offered for sale at an upset price of Jthe,, jjaolading- working horses and leMespthe-jbnyer to take caltle, bulls, and bullocks at an\ all-round; price of 5s per head, and also:, worth of stores and plant with each' station. The bidding was to be on the horses only, the : the price to be paid for the cattle, bulls,! and working bullocks being fixed at os the long! fierrai whioif the -aid the name 1 * whiclMhe ;v Ofreri* Springs -,|tnj3[ .Mpjmt, hare, there wis 'riot tt v single 1 respbtiee'to the auctioneer's' inquiries. t . F . ! ;j,' ! Mojpj Strawfhatsi and spectaoUs fo'rhoVses seemed ludicrous; enough, these fads hav^been^capped' ir weare 'to'believe the follow-1 "ing"' 1 from' the' Sumner (Washington) Herald:— I ,' We doubt,if very -many per- ' i.!'uikt fj..an,./r.v-.uv r .sons.ever saw mud shoes tor horses. They are used on horses in' ; 'ploughing the low and w ( et lands of tKenorth .of Suraner '.nearly'''every ''spring; 115 Tile ' J mud' ( pWe consists of a heavy board about Sin wide and from ,Bin to lOin. longj rounding- in |rorit.'||)ir% red^^ofcof 1 the size wornon the horse's foot for which |it,is .i nte'ndedfis,plaoe'd% until it burns into © «ol» to bury itself. It is necessary that the shoe have 1 a long !^oe'; and v lohg ! ' d6rE Vu . :( l r: Jie(je ! of 'circular 1 band iron ibp part of.the hoof, is then attached to 'the board and'over the hoof to hold the mud. shoo r solidly y to the foot. One', ,end of the -band i-ie fa ( Btetied s -'to' Übe board : witliiscrew, which, when tightened, holds the board las < as iHtlhad grown there. The horses become aocustomed to wearing- them, and after a . day M l 'two fexpeHenceitno' difficulty in working in them, By this means farmers ;are-enabled to land in-the spring; ! wh'eriv»;'without the use of the mud shoes,,horses r havelMiad ' considerable s ' r ex> perience this spring in thus equipping teams for ploughing the low lands." '

Preserving Eggs.,.- The r following particulars of& method of preserving eggs arefsuppliod'hy af'correspondeniin Chamv bers' Journal for July: "Last year we had dome eggs, M an. experiment), rubbed over with" vaseliiie, and then packed in boxes--with dry salt. The boxes were turned jover every fortnight, to prevent the yolks settling and adhering to the shell; OAfter the lap'se of four months,''the first box was opened, the eggs wiped clear from vaseline, and they were then boiled along, with fresh-laid ones. As a matter ,would: have one^{ from ' the other, if we ■had not, known, that, someiof.the;eggß{had; : been preserved. This commencis'd, preserving by,the same method wly eighty wleks.Before jh'el.time aElWhicti I write and although. the test is a much shorter one, it is quite sufficient to prove the value, of ..The .fortnightly •turning it keeps the yolicV iri J posiHoii ; lri and the impossibility of doing this . with lime : , water, f any" these at once, on account of the' r adhesion of the yolk to the shell, irrespective' ojf the flavour whiclr with' most other processes is not- at' all 'satisfactory. The result of our test this year is as follows The first lot of eggs preserved were laid on March 12, and^were,-rubbed with covered with ealtion the 13th ;cthe lids of the boxes were .then tied dojsvn, and-the boxes turned iipsidb down every "fortnight or so. Eight week's afterwards the first "bd# wasopenkd; two eggs -were p'oached 1 and found perfect; two 'were boiled for - : twtfsfle|eiit :pejqpS|} t ji[hp;are?in the habit of taking a new laid One of these two persons, no^.knowing, the.- egg; was a preserved oiie, remarked;'that it was.very fresh ( and nice, r .but,th^t, the hens must be getting" short of 'greenwood, as ' the yolk was palqr than usual. This remark proved cleanly that the was, not oyer u witKdufc' J notice' ;' 1 : ahd J th s J' fact thath' yolk is easily accounted auring March the hens wore, practically, jwithout food, they being"kept in' confinement, and. depending for greenstuff on the garden, waste ffrom tW tebnia! lawn. The eggs . had .milky appearance which fresh-laid' ones'iose in about two days,' anft'also 'the inimitable flavour peculiar to' thbse? which have not beenhandleii much." \ V ; '