The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-11 00:00:00

Countrp AliscellattE.

EPIDEMIC alitollo HORREL—Now York papers report
the prevalence of a violent &ram which has broken
out among the hor.rs In the stables of tho diffaent
street railways in that city. The diseaso partakes of
the nature of Intl mutation of the kidneys with eruptions
on the back, preceded by a weakness in the loins or
paralysis of the lower part of the spine. It is stated
that the deaths hays exceeded 200.
Arun ON LAWNL—To drive away ants give lawns a
dressing with guano at the rate of 2 owt. per acre, and
on hill 'eke sprinkle a little of the same, as much as can
be held between the thumb and two forefingers, or if
large twice that quantity. They may be destroyed by
pouring into the hillocks spirit of turpentine diluted
with tit times its volume of water.
CATERPILLAIOI Og Comunania AND CURRANT
BUREIN.—Du.O over them fresh white • holl.bore
powder, and next day syringe the trees. Two or three
applications will be needed to subdue them.
FARMERS' Exesmagn.--Sevaral farmers in tho small
county of Haddington annually expend upon auxiliary
ruanuies and feeding stuffs about £2 for each acre they
polices. Some farmers in that county have estimated
th it the outlay on manures and cattle food nearly
orsarsponds with the amount of rent paid.
WATERPROOF Coln. mirrior. Dr. Soberser, an
Au.trian Oficial at Pekin, has sent to his GLvernment
some specimens of a Chinese waterproof composition
called tiabioirmo, which has the prdperty of making
wood end other substances perfectly water-tight. He
says that he has been in Pekin wooden chests which had
been to St. Petersburg, and bad come back uninjured,
and that the Chinese Risen'', the composition for cover-
ing straw basket,, which are afterwards employed in
carrying oil f, r long distances. Cardboard, when
I covered with the compoaition, Legumes as hard as wood;
, and most wooden buildings In Pekin have a mating a
it. It oonaitts—so says the Bitildce—of three parts of
I blood deprived of its fibrine, four of lime, and • little

alum.
A litsr.—lt is seldom that a month passes by with-
out our o'itainieg • useful hint or two from the Gar-
desocr's Magazine. Here, for instance, is • very valuable
"tip" fur the authorities of the kitchen. We learn
that the neglected llowerwtalks of sea-kale, if gathered
a few days before CA, (Invent expand, are, when cooked
properly, most al, lie:lions in flavour, and by no means
objectionalile in appc irsnee. 'Hie yield from • large
quarter is not peal'''s eery consider Ms, yet at the
avaiwin of the year when the flower- rem, are fit for the
table and grein vert Odes are usually some, anything
of good quality that will help out the supply and
afford • little extra variety is peculiarly aeceptable, and
deserves attention.
THE SEcgirr Or GROWTH —.t discussion took place
toms years ago in the Baltic,' on th, Influence of
coloured glass in conservatoeies, and experiment' were
afterwards made which seem to taco since assumed an
exaggerated shape in America, where it is gravely an-
nounced that "the germ of all growth life lies In blue
glass." The "discoverer" learnedly sets forth to the
public, in • pamphlet, that ho coveted • 'napery with
glass of a blue or violet hue. In five months 2in vines
bad grown 45ft.; in a Jar they bore grapes in startling
abundance. Ile covered • piggery with it: the three
sows under the violet glass, inereasti 121 b in an In-
credibly chart time, and a harrow pig increased " even
more rapidly than this," owing to the " abnormal
development of groNl and viciousness enabling him to
seise on more than his share of animal food." After
these sooces.es, be next pot up an Alderney bull-calf
jest born, and apparently dying, under glass of this
mysterious colour. In a few hours it got up and ate
with great vivacity: " it began to grow next day," and
war " full-grown In four months. The author recom-
mends that architects be directed to roof our homes
with sha is vi 41 Ik4o and if this
be observed be promises that " we can prodoce in the
temperate regions the early maturity of the tropics,
and slevelope in the young a generation, physically
and hitellectutUy, which will become • marvel to
mankind." A commentator roasr is that when the
, human race looks blue, they are not supposed to be
just then in • very flourishing cmdition.