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Keeping Farm Accounts. 



In the face of the fact, that manv 

 faniiers have been, and still are 

 conductin}^- their business success- 

 fully, perhaps, without keeping 

 accurate farm accounts, there is 

 some justification for the ijUestion: 

 Why keep farm accounts at all ? 

 Conditions have changed material- 

 ly within the past decade. .More 

 knowledjre and skill are now re- 

 qui'retl to farm successfully t!ian 

 were required of our forefathers. 

 There arc g'ood reasons for keep- 

 ing accurate farm records and ac- 

 counts, inasmuch as they increase 

 one's knowledge of his business, 

 they 'reveal and help to stop many 

 leaks, thcv show one exactly where 



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he stands financially, and by de- 

 termining the cost of production 

 they help to fix the selling price. 

 A careful analysis of the business 

 of farming involves records and ac- 

 counts with each separate; farm en- 

 terprise, as well as with the whole 

 farm. This means a record of the 

 labour as well as the cash ex- 

 pended on each enterprise, and 

 means the opening of several ac- 

 counts. These, records may be still 

 furtheo: supplemented hy breeding 

 and feeding records if thought de- 

 sirable. 



Farm bookkeeping is, perhaps, 

 som.ewliat different from ordinary 

 bookkeeping, as everyone who has 

 tried it knows. Maybe the farmer 

 does not believe in any set rne- 

 thod's. He may find it too com- 

 plex to keep his record in the same 

 complete form as a commercial 

 man in the city, and more often 

 than otherwise the farmer will 

 come to the conclusion that he 

 should develop his own system ac- 

 cording to his needs and his in- 

 clinations. But there are a few 

 essentials, which exparience will 

 teach him to observe, namely, a 

 clear understanding of 'what is 

 wanted, simplicity of form, and 

 a minimum of 'details, a method 

 which is easily workable, and in 

 which regular entries a're summa- 

 ries. — Sydney Morning Herald. 







Wood Seasoning by 

 Electricity. 



The latest use for electririty is 

 — wood seasoning ! The process, 

 which is said to have given very 

 striking results in France, r'amarks 

 the Advocate of India, is a very 

 siipple one and it should have very 

 satisfactory results in increasing 

 the supply of marketable timber 

 and thus in postponing the much 

 discussed " famine " in that com- 

 modity — a famine which has in- 

 duced such high prices as to seri- 

 ously affect home building trade. 

 Certainly the new method of sea- 

 soning is a great economiser of 

 time. A water-tight tank of suit- 

 able size is the most expensive 

 article. The timber is piled on a 

 large lead plate at the bottom, 

 until the tank is full, when a se- 

 cond lead plate is placed on top 

 of the pile and connected to the 

 negative pole of a dynamo, the bot- 

 tom plate being connected to the 

 positive pole. The space around 

 the timber is then filled with a 

 jsolution containing s per cent, of 



January, 1914 



resin, lo per cent, of borax, and 

 a trace of carbonate of soda. On 

 turning on the current! it passes 

 from plate to plate through the 

 wood, driving out the sap, and 

 the resin and borax takes its place 

 in the cells and interstices. This 

 process being completed, the tim- 

 ber is taken out and dried, when it 

 is ready for use. — The Indian Agri- 

 culturist. 



4 . 



Stings. 



Stings of wasps and bees are oc- 

 casionalh- the cause of serious ac- 

 cidents occurring, as if in work 

 the horse which has been stung is 

 apt to bolt in his torture and cause 

 disaster. A Similar result may 

 succeed a sting if he is loose in a 

 paddock, but in either case he 

 must, of course, be, brought under 

 control before anything in the nar 

 ture of a remedy can be applied. 

 As in the case of human beings, 

 ammonia is an admirable palliative 

 of the effects of a sting, and even 

 the anrlication of ordinary soda 

 mixed with just enough watejr to 

 make it moist may be found effec- 

 tive, whilst in some cases witch 

 hazel will provide relief. It some- 

 times happens, however, that a 

 horse has the misfortune to be 

 stung in the mouth or tongue, and 

 then treatment becom'es ditltcult, 

 as ammonia cannot be given, 

 and therefore the best remedy to 

 administer is the soda. Some 

 people believe strongh' in the juice 

 of raw onions as a cure for stings, 

 and this may be experimented with, 

 advantageously ; but a sting in 

 the mouth requires expert treat- 

 ment, and therefore professional 

 ai'd should be procured, as there is 

 always a chance of serious swelling! 

 arising, which might end by chok- 

 ing the horse, whilst, if the offend- 

 ing bee happens to get swallowed 

 the gravest results may follow. — 

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