The record-union., 1892-12-14

along the back. The better way, how
ever, IS to keep the bed of the hogs clean
and never allow the vermin to infest
them.
No lesson of greater importance can be
taught the colt than Of standing still
while one is entering or leaving the
wagon.
A bushel of corn put in the crib in No
Vember weighing seventy pounds will.
the following May, weigh not over sixty
pounds.
In sowing grass and clover on poor land
do not be stingy with the seed. The
poorer the land the more seed will fail to
germinate.
The dairymen, of Ontario have asked
the Government to pay them bounty of
two cents pound on all butter sent to
Great Britain.
The best authorities are agreed that it
is not well. on sanitary grounds, to store
many roots or vegetables in the cellar of
dwelling-house.
A man in Brunswick, Me-, raised a
bean plant of the tree variety which had
l60 pods and over 800 beans. Eight hun
dred fold is good yield.
The price of butter kept up pretty well
this last summer. 1t is to be hoped that
this fact will not lead dairymen to give
up the idea of winter dairying.
Russia is the largest horse breeding
country in the world, but the great ma
Jorlty OF their horses are worthless brutes
worse than our Texas ponies.
The department of Agriculture in South
Australia IS encouraging the growth Of
falsln grapes, and has imported 10000
cuttings for distribution among farmers
Don't undertake TO winter more stock
than your barn Will carry, for boughten
! hay cannot be paid for with milk or
growth OF stock, and depletes the wallet
The consumption of flour in China
Japan and Central America is on the in
crease. If the Chinese ever should be-
come sufficiently educated and civilized
to use flour as a daily article Of food, i:s
consumption would be enormously in
creased.
We see it stated that the fumes of burn
ing tar and turpentine will soon loosen
the matter in the throats of men and
lower animals suffering from symptoms
OF dIphtherla. We have observed, long
since, that the fumes of burning tar re-
HeVed symptoms OF pulmonary affection
IN the human subject, and inasmuch as
some dumb domestic animals are often
afflicted with diseases resembling diph-
liberia, it is Well to remember a ready
alleylator or remedy.
Western Australia, with it's enormous
]
and sheep for LEGAL consumption. This
land IS remarkable for lis immense area
OF arid sand, upon which the only green
thing that fourIshes is the inevitable
gum tree. OF grass there is almost none
and even the kangaroos are haif-starved
The non-arrival OF a cargo Of live stock
by steamer from South Australia is some
times a serious matter in the more west
ern colony.
Fowls have no teeth, but they masticate
their food by means of sharp, small, hard
substances in the gizzard. In other
words, grit is the teeth of fowls. When
they run at large they usually can supply
themselves with this material, but, in
close confinement, it is wise To furnish it
to the hens. Nothing is better than
/ broken flint, the pieces about the size OF q
grain of wheat. 1t is hard, its edges are
sharp and the cost is but little. Though
! flint is SO hard, it readily breaks into
| small bits, being extremely brittle
! When flint cannot be obtained, old crock
cry answers admirably, and oyster shells
or limestone viii do.