AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 November 1880, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

— : * [Summarised from Exchanges.] Wire with barbs upon ifc is selling wonderfully in the States — the daily manufacture i? now 200,0001b. Crops of fine wheat are c;rown in Mancbaria en lands so permeated with salt as to form white incrustations on the surface. India-rubber makes a serviceable covering for ibe bit of a fender-mouthed horse ; each *ide of the bit should be protected with a stiff circular piece at leather. An inreiitire genius filled a small tnrl--1 (on sack wilh ' a spoonful of cayenne 1 pepper and tacked it over the vat-bole. When the rat bounced out bis eyes got peppered. The whole tribe nest daY crossed over to a neighbor's. Collect all tlie old bones about t!>o fiivm, or what you can pick up about the bush, make a heap of liiem with eart-'i and wood nsbes, and throw on all the , soapsuds and house slops and you wii! soon hsivo a heap of excellent manure which contains no seeds and weeds. Cut wheat early, for if over-ripe there is much more waste. For gveasiu!; waggons use castor oil in siirauw and sperm oil in winter. When 1 the o-l is sticky (-lean with turpentine; If hens set into the habit of eating ' ojrsjfs take enough bran and cornsmeal of pqu'il farts fm 1 one feeding, and enonsh vinesjiir warmed to make the meal sufJlcently wet for the liens to eat. Mis together and feed it to the hens. .Repeat this once the same day. There is no kind of dried fruit in such brisk demand in the American market as ! raspberries. One hundred quarts will make 301b of dried fruit. Common black pepper sprinkled on cabbages kills insects and vrorms,

A few drops of Fulpburic acid in a plaJntain, duck, or any perennial wee', nvl kill it. Fowl manure is a valuable fertiliser, nnd every particle should be saved. Tbe floors of chicken bouses- shouM be swept every week, and the deposits barrelled for future use, adding a little gypsum 01 dry enrth to retain t'le ammonia. Diluted carbolic acid is a complete exterminator of insects infesfing crops But it is destructive io plant He unless il is sufficient^ diluted with water— one pint of carbolic acid to 100 quarts ol water.