The record-union., 1894-06-06

lHdt gives D6lLeT rotuTuS tudu LILO tdAoS
for good roads, when the funds are judi
c1ously applied to secure the objects de-
sired.
The dairy industry has grown rapidly
in New Zealand. The exports of dairy
products advanced in twenty years from
$4,000 in 1872 to 81, 100000 in 1892. The
colony now has Ia establishments OF all
kinds for the manufacture of butter aud
cheese.
A stockman says that sulphur should
always be kept in handy reach OF the
sheep house. 1t is preventive of many
lils. A few pieces of roll birthstone
should be always found in the horse aud
COW troughs. Insects and vermin do not
like sulphur.
The importation Of eggs into Great
Britain continue to increase from year TO
year. The value of egg imports for 1898
was nearly $40, 100000. The greater part of
the imports were from France. those from
Germany and Belgium being next, while
Russia and Denmark supplied the re-
mainder.
The Russian sunflower is easily raised.
requiring very little care, and can be
grown in fence corners and places ditfi-
cult to cultivate. It's seed production is
enormous, one acre often yielding 100
bushels. 1t should be planted in hills
plant an acre.
Tobacco culture is increasing rapidly in
Queensland, Australia. The crop has
been found to be the most profitable one
raised in the colony, the local demand
from the tobacco factories sustaining good
prices for the leaf. Coffee is also receiv-
ing increased attention in the colony, and
many trees have been planted in the
northern districts.
The new strawb berry beds will last for
i've or six years if the cultivation during
the hrst year is thorough. The difficulty
with the matted rows is that in the second
or third years grass and weeds take pos
session. 70 avoid this the young plants
should be worked frequently in order to
Kill every weed or blade of grass that ap-
pears, and after the rows are filled with
runners the weeds must be pulled out by
hand.
A poultry-grower says that The fruit
grower can combine fruit growing and
poultry raising without occupying more
land than would be required for one pur
suit, and the results from the orchard and
from the hens would be more satisfactory.
The fowls can be made TO assist in pro-
tectlng the trees by giving them loose soil
Tor dustlng near the trunks of the trees,
and placing their drinking water under
trees and feeding them at the base OF each
tree.
More than 100000 acres of land are
INFESTED by the rabbit pest in Victoria,
Australia. During the last eleven years
the Colonial Government has expended
nearly $2,00O,0O0 III efforts TO abate the
pests, besides the expenditures OF indi-
Vlduals. The rabbits are trapped for their
skins, over 80, 600 pelts having been pur-
chased monthly i'll one town. The au-
thorlties of some districts have decided to
employ phosphorized wheat for the de-
struction of the RABBITS.
There are a few days at the beginning
OF the chickens lie when whole grains
OF wheat are too large for them. We find,
however, that after they are ten days old
there is no difficulty from whole wheat,
though 1t Is better to give cracked grain
some time longer. as it requires longer
time to eat a given quantity. Soft food
does not tax the digestive organs suf-
hciently TO insure their vigor. 1t is the
cause OF more deaths of young chicks
than anything else except lice.
Dry bone, ground, is valuable for poul-
try, but the best results are obtained from
fresh bones and meat procured from tie
butcher, says Mirror and Farmer. A
green bone cannot be ground being
tough, while a dry bone, being brittle.
can be reduced easily. Green bones are
cut fine and fed, the adhering meat being
also cut with the bone. Such food should
be used as portion of the ration, and if
given in proportion of one ounce dav to
each hen will add to the number of eggs
from the flock.
The Swedish Government is very lib
eral In encouraging the dairy industry
ana promoting dairy education. In
Sweden there are never fewer than fifty
two girls being educated at public ex-
pense for dairy work. OF these forty are
boarded at cooperative dairy factories
under Government inspection, the others
being maintained at dairy schools as free
pupils. One hundred dollars yearly are
allowed each pupil for board, lodging and
instruction, beside which the pupil re-
ceives Sl2 year for clothes. The course
of instruction extends over a period of
TWO years.
DR.. Henry Lehman, who has given
milk and butter his attention, and who
has conducted many valuable expert
ments with them in the laboratory, gives
the following as a test for distinguishing
butter from imitations: 4 spoonful or.
two is placed in narrow cup and quickly
heated TO The boiling point. Ii it is true
butter 1t will boil quietly and 1oam up in
a mass of fine bubbles, often overtlowing
the cup. Ii it is butterine or oleomarga-
rine the sample, when heated, will foam
up but little and sputter as it boils. The
test is regarded as iniallible for detecting
spurious butter.
The beet industry is one of the most
important branches of agriculture and
manufacture in Russia, and beet sugar
not only supplies the whole wants of the
Russian Empire, but is exported in very
considerable quantities to Austria, Ger
many and other countries. The United
States Consul General at st. Petersburg
says that the cultivation of beets took its
rise in Russia at the beginning of the
present century simultaneously with it's
Introduction into Western Europe. The
Government from the first has taken an
exceedingly active interest in this indus
try, and it has been strongly supported
by the several agricultural and economic
societies OF the empire.