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well defined, and usually red in colour; it is someAvhat like that of the 

 Brown Messmate {E. haemastoma) , but the latter is a gum, or smooth- 

 barked species. 



This species can be most conveniently distinguished by its pear-shaped 

 fruits and peppermint bark, its narrow sucker leaves are also 

 characteristic. 



The timber is pale-coloured, with gum rings, remarkably like that of 

 the Peppermint Gum (A\ /piperita. Sm.). It is soft and stringy, not 

 nearly so good as that of the Silvertop {E. Sieberiana, F, v. M.). 



Nothing is yet known of the vahie of the Yertchuk to the apiarist. 



The Gr.\mpians Gum {E acal uptus aljnmf. Linde.) 

 (Fig. 56.) 



A dwarf eucalypt of no economic value, and remarkable for being 

 confined to a restricted area in the Grampians, where it is found at an 

 elevation of over 3,000 feet. 



It was discovered by Colonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, when that eminent 

 explorer discovered the Grampians, and ascended, in July, 1836, the 

 mountain now known as Mount William. 



It is probably the slowest growing of our eucalypts, which is quite 

 remarkable, because its nearest systematic relative is the Blue Gum 

 (A\ global us), our fastest growing tree, which it inuch resembles in its 

 warty buds and fruits. 



{To be continued.) 



My own experience, says a correspondent in an agricultural paper, is 

 tliat the son of a small farmer is invariably an all-round man, able to 

 milk, plough, tend cattle, and so ou, whilst the sou of the agricultural 

 labourer " follows father's footsteps" — and, like the father, is a one- 

 job man. The factor of personal attention, then, is worth a lot in the 

 handling of dairy cows, and worth much more in the raising of calves, 

 another feature of farming to which the small man should give more 

 attention. " Who feeds the calves?" I recently asked the owner of as 

 bonny a lot of chubby youngsters as I have ever seen. The answer was 

 just as I expected : " The same one wlio feeds the babies." Nobody like 

 a woman for looking aft^r a calf, or anytliing young, especially when 

 the woman, as in tlie case quoted, " owns the man who owns tlie calves." 

 Just when a man has got tired of tending a delicate calf, and bids it 

 good-night with a fervent heart-wish thai it will be dead in the morning, 

 is the time when the woman lends her helping hand. Tt is a remarkable 

 thing tliat amongst small farmers in Ireland " the woman of the house " 

 makes herself res|X)nsil)le for the health and comfort of the calves; 

 while "himself " looks to almost everything else except the hens. 



