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AGRICULTURE. RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS. From time to time lectures are being given at various centres as to the results of experiments on the manuring on crops, fatten- ing of sheep and cattle, &c. Would you inform me if all the different results are pablished in tabulated form, and where I can procure a copy?—DM. [In their annual report on the distribution of grants to the various colleges and other institutions at which agri- cultural education is given, the Board of Agriculture give a resume of the results of the experiments in respect of which a grant of money from the Board is given. The report may be had from the King's printers, Messrs Eyre & Spottiswoode, London.] MILK WITH BAD TASTE.—I have a valuable six.year. old cow which calved a fortnight before her time. A week after she salved her milk commenced to have rather a bad taste. It is now a week past the time she ought to have calved, and the milk is still in the same state yet. She is fed on meadow hay, with a half pail- ful of bran and bean meal night and morning, and a few potatoes at midday.—ANXIOUS [This peculiarity in the milk is frequently noticed where the cow has retained the second cleansing, and we would recommend querist to give the cow one drachm powdered sulphate of iron and half an ounce of common salt each night in a mash of bran for eight or ten nights, also stop the bean meal for a while, and give instead maize meal and and crushed oats mixed.] "KNOT GRASS. "—My turnip field is full of knotty weeds, which are growing upon the surface in the mean. time. Kindly let me know whether it would be better to plough the field with a chilled plough or with a common plough, when I am ploughing for the barley crop ? By putting them below with a chilled plough, would they be so ready to grow a&alu F--SHIRE. [" Knot grass" is one of the worst weeds that the farmer has to reckon with. It is not much use trying to kill weeds—and particularly knot grass "—by means of burying them through deep ploughing, for even though the deep ploughing should effect this end, the result would be that the richest part of the eurfaco soil would be buried to a depth at which its fertilising matter would be practically out of the reach of surface ?pedera. H<? th??a'-ao M?pa. The best plan of dealing feeders, weeds would be to grub the land, and have the weeds taken off before sowing down with the succeeding crop Fl A ÓATCR CROP. -Could you or any reader advise me what to sow down on a lea field along with oats to come up in the end of the year to pasture lambs. I would be pleased with anything that would make a green surface, without growing tco far up among the oats to be trouble- some in harvest. I bad an idea of trying kidney vetoh or sheep's parsley, but, as I never saw either growing, I don't know how they might answer. I intend taking a second crop of oats or barley off the field, so that what- ever is sown would be ploughed down again in the spring. -QILTESTOR. [Some very successful farmers sow a few pounds of red clover on their lea corn break for the use of lambs after harvest. In order to keep the clover from being too rank and troublesome in the butt end of the sheaves at harvest time, the clover seed is not sown till just before the land is rolled after the corn crop has been well up. By growing clover this way among the lea oats the flockmaster not only gets a good deal of excellent feeding for his lambs, but, as clover is a "nitrogen accumulator," he also gets his soil improved through the accumulation of nitrogen compounds in it.] RHEUMATISM IN PIGS. -I shall be glad to have your advice bow to treat pigs which are baa with rheumatism. The pigs are thirteen weeks old. Sjmoofthem can hardly stand on their legs, some are sffecttd in their hind legs, and others in their fore legs. YOUTH. [This is a very common complaint in pigs, and, like the old "kennel cripple" in dogs, is generally dU3 to bad sanitation, such as damp, wet floors, and bad drainage, and mostly seen in winter months. The generality of people think that any sort of hole will do for pigs, which is a great mistake. The pigs would do much better outside altogether than in some of the places we have seen them housed in. Damp, wet sand- stone floors are bad either for pigs, dogs, or calves; the ground damp rises and settles on the warm bodies of the animals, conducing to rheumatism and other ailments. Such plaoes should have a portable wood floor, raised up to 6 to 8 inches above the ground, the planking to be set half an inch apart, or half-inch holes may be bored in different parts of the wood, to let the water through. The portable wood flooring should be lifted once every five or six weeks, and the bottom well cleaned and washed out. With reference to querist's ailing pigs, we would suggest, when the weather is fine, tolpat them out into the fields but if they have been suffering for any length of time, we think it would pay best to make them into pork.] PURITY OF MILK.-The Departmental Committee on this subject reports that they recommend the fixing by the Board of Agriculture of a minimum standard of quality in milk. Although there is great difference of opinion among dairy farmers upon this question, there is no doubt that all honest milk sellers suffer seriously from the adulteration of new with separated milk, which vastly increases the bulk, and thus reduoes the price of whole milk. Seven out of eight members of the Committee signed the report, Mr George Barham being the only dissentient, though Mr S. W. Farmer makes a w reservations, the most important of which is an objection to one standard for all seasons. The Committee suggest that when the total solids in milk sold as whole fresh milk are less than 12 per cent., it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the fluid is deficient in the normal constituents of genuine milk; that where the total solids are less than 12 per cent., and the fat is under 3-25 per cent., it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that separated milk or water has been added, and that when the non. fatty solids are less than 8-5 per cent., adulteration with water shall be suspected. Similar recommendations name 9 per cent. of total solids as the minimum standard for skimmed or separated milk, and 10 per cent. of fat with 25 per cent. of other solids for con- densed milk not labelled machine-skimmed or "shimmed." A valuable suggestion is to the effect that the artificial thickening of cream shall raise the presumption that it is not genuine. They think that the administrators of the Food and Drugs Act should adopt measures for preventing the reduction of the quality of genuine milk to the minimum standard; that separated milk should be made easily recognisable by the addition of some innocuous matter; that proceedings relating to samples of milk and their analysis should be uniform, so far as possible; that on the labels attached to condensed whole milk the amount of dilution necessary to make the proportion of fat 3-25 per cent should be stated; that the addition of sugar to condensed whole milk should be limited, while its addition to condensed skimmed milk should be prohibited; ind that measuring vessels, commercially used in the testing of milk, should be officially standarised. LOCAL TAXATION AND ITS INCIDENCE ON LAND.—In I view of the renewal of the Agricultural Rates Act of 1896 some interest attaches to a paper read by Mr J. W. I Lowther, M.P., before the Cumberland and Westmor- land Chamber of Agriculture. After tracing the process of piling local burdens upon one description of I property, and the gradual relief to the owners and occupiers of that property given by means of grants from the Imperial Exchequer 6r"t and the allocation of of certain duties and licanoea afterwards, Mr Lowther j gives a tabular statement of the totals of rates and of j contributions from Imperial sources in different years. j Bat, although he showa that while, in the last fifty years, rates have increased threefold, and relief from Imperial sources has been multiplied ninefold, he points out that owners and occupiers of real property have to bear their share of the Imperial contributions, as well as to pay the whole of the rest of the rates whereas owners of personalty contribute only to the former portion of local expenses. To show how the burdens of Imperial and local taxes are divided between real and personal property, he takes some figures from the tables on the subject, complied by Sir E. Hamilton, of the Treasury, as follows:— TAXES ON REALTY. Levied by Parliament £ 13,209,000 Levied by Local Authorities. 19,930,000 I 33,139.000 TAXES ON PERSONALTY. Levied by Parliament .£19,801,000 Levied by Local Authorities. 3,348,000 23,149,000 Here we have a balance of neatly L 10,000,000 against: real property, in spite of all the Imperial aid given to ratepayers. FEEDING CATTLE GOING LAME. —In October of last year I bought a Lit of well-bred six-quarter-old English cattle, and put them into my courts for winter feeding. They throve all right for a time, but my yellow turnips got done rather early in the sia&on, and these cattle then were put on to swt dep. They were also getting a little cake. Not very lorg hftfr they were put on to the swedes, in the end of January, I noticed that they did not seem to be thriving very well. Since that time, a number of them have gone" off colour altogether. The symptoms of ill-health which they present are a marked lameness, tucked up bellies, and staring coats. Our local vet, is unable to eay what can be the cause, or the cure, for the trouble. Could the swedes have anything to do with it P I may say that I had a few but only a few similar cattle which went the same way last winter after they were put on to the swedes, there were not so many of them that went wrong.—ANXIOUS FARMER. [We do not like tojhazard opinions when other professional men have been in attendance, and if the vet. that has seen the cases be a fully qualified man, he is the party best adapted to give an opmion. However, from the particulars given in the query, it seems to us that there is something wrong with the courts, seeing that querist had similar cattle that went same way last year." There must, we think, be something amiss with the drainage or ground floor- ing, this should be seen to at once. There is nothing that will cause young stocb to go cripple or lame sooner than wet or damp flooring, acd if such is the case, the eooner the animals are put out on to a sound dry pasture the better. Their mouths should be examined, as it is possible some of the crowns of their milk teeth have not been cast off, and should be removed. Two tablespoonfuls of best cod- livee oil should be given night and morning in a little meal and bran, and a tablespoonful of salt.]

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