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giving milk at blood heat to calves. Be careful to keep utensils clean, or 

 diarrhoea will result. Do not give too much milk at a time for the same reason. 

 Feed regularly with regard to quantity and time. Give a cup of limewater in the 

 milk to each calf, also place crushed oats or lucerne hay in a trough so that they 

 can eat at will. 



Pigs. — Supply plenty of liedding in woll-ventilated styes. Keep styes 

 clean and dry, and feeding troughs clean and wholesome. Sows may now be 

 turned into grass run. Sows suckling young should be well fed to enable them 

 to produce plenty of milk. Give young pigs pollard and skim milk in separate 

 trough as soon as they will take it, and keep them fattening from tlie start to 

 get them off as early as possible. Give a tablespoonful of bone meal, or half 

 that amount of mineral phosphate, per 100 lbs. live weight in food daily. If 

 pigs are lousy dress them with kerosene emulsion or sulphur and lard, rubbing 

 well into crevices of skin, and disinfect styes. Pig breeding and feeding 

 should be very profitable for a long time to come, and it should be safe to 

 launch out now. • 



Sheep. — Prepare for dipping. Ascertain exact contents of bath before mixing. 

 Powder or paste dips have the most lasting effect, particularly where the lice 

 ■flave been bad. Hold sheep in the bath not less than half a minute; if badly 

 infested, longer. Submerge heads twice, but allow them to rise quickly — ^jnost 

 deaths after dipping are due to gross carelessness in holding sheep under too 

 long, the dip wash being taken in on to the lungs. Dip rams, full grown sheep 

 first, while bath is full, lambs last. Yard sheep over night. Dip while empty, and 

 avoid excessive fouling the drainer. Commence early in the day, and allow sheep 

 to dry before nightfall. Avoid travelling long distances to and from baths, and 

 dipping sheep while overheated. Do not roughly throw sheep in. Avoid filthy 

 baths; this increases a dead tip in hot areas. 



Wlien constructing new dips, remember moderate-sized ones are most econo- 

 mical, just as efficient, and can be more easily emptied as they become fouled, 

 and if they are near water can be quickly filled. 



Poultry. — Provide plenty of green food and shade. Watch for vermin; 

 spray crevices of perches and houses with crude carbolic acid, 1 in 50. Keep 

 water clean and cool, and out of the sun. One packet of Epsom salts should be 

 given to thirty birds through the mash. Remove all male birds from the flock. 

 Infertile eggs are preferable when pickling, or when placed in cool storage. 



CULTIVATION. 



Fakm. — Plant main crop of potatoes. Cut hay and silage. vVeed early 

 potatoes. Sow maize and millets. Weed tobacco beds, and water, if dry. 



Okchakd. — Ploughing, harrowing, and cultivating to be continued. Weeds 

 to be kept down. sl-cure, pinch, and spra>- grafts with water. Spray frequently 

 for codlin moth, pear and cherry slug, and peach aphis. Plant out citrus trees. 



Vegetable Garden. — Hoe and mulch surface. Suppress weeds. Water where 

 dry and hoe afterwards. Disbud and pinch back tomato plants. Sow celery, 

 French beans, peas, lettuce, cucumber, melon, &<?., seeds. 



Flower Garden. — Water and mulch. Cultivate and keep down weeds. Thin 

 out weak wood from roses. Prune early all flowering shrubs that have finished 

 flowering. Lift and store bulbs. Plant out dahlias and chrysanthemums. Liquid- 

 manure herbaceous perennials. 



Vineyard. — Field grafts require careful attention in the way of removal of 

 suckers and scion roots. (See articles in last and current issues.) Cultural 

 work, such as scarifying and hoeing, should be actively pushed forward, so as to 

 provide as good a " mulch " as possible during sum-mer. Proceed with tying up, 

 stopping and topping. Avoid excessive topping, summer pruning being usiinllv 

 more injurious than useful in warm, dry climates. Cincture Zante currant vines 

 after flower caps have fallen. Apply second sulphuring just l)efore blossoming, 

 wherever Oidium was prevalent last year. 



Cellar. — Same as last month. 



