THE AOBICULTUBAL JOURNAL. 



character. It is assuredly not because 

 there are no leaders or because there Are 

 not men in almost all ranks who are 

 willing to help in the work. The Associa- 

 tion of which Mr. Yerburgh, the member 

 for Chester, is now at the head has com- 

 menced to work on this line. It will, no 

 doubt, find many helpers ; for, whatever 

 may be the view of agriculturists at large, 

 the time is coming when the salvation of 

 the industry by means of which they live, 

 and which is essential to the interests of 

 the country, will need all the self-help 

 which is at their command. The action 

 of successive Governments has shown that 

 we have little to expect from Parliamen- 



tary aid"; in the main this is due to the 

 apathy of agriculturists themselves, but it 

 is not unnatural to suppose that it is very 

 largely owing to the growing increase in 

 the numbers of our people wno are 

 not engaged in agriculture, whose sym- 

 pathy is not with the maintenance ot 

 prices, but rather with the importation ot 

 cheap foods, which are so essential tor 

 the vast majority of our population. 

 Agriculture, then, will have to take care 

 of itself, and this means that it can only 

 be strong enough to look after its own 

 interests when its members work together, 

 and this they can only do through some 

 form of combination. 



PountI Notices. 



rpHE stock impounded as hereunder will 



1 be sold, unless previously released, 

 on the 1st May : — 



Candella.— Bay horse, about 14 hands 



2 inches, six-year-old, flea bitten all over, 

 branded J.N. on right hind leg, little 

 white star on forehead, tail cut short, 

 rather low condition. 



Howick.— Black ox (bull stag), horn 

 points cut olf, branded P.O. on right hip. 



Ladysmith.— On the farm Drie lloek. 

 of Mr. J. H. Newton, grey mare, branded 

 on right leg, indistinct. It appears 

 to have had a broken hind joint, a long 

 tail and mane. Eed Africander cow, 

 branded on left leg D.U., lame with left 

 hind foot. 



Ndwcdwe. — On the fann oF ^ladigaiia, a 

 native, upstanding bay gelding, about 15 

 hands high, long ,s(iuare-eut tail, black 

 points, heavy mane and tail, small part 

 01 mane white, leather ticket, ])late(l, on 

 tail, bearing number, branded on left hoof 

 G823, probably belongs to the MiUtary. 



Highbury. — Black-and-white he goat, 

 aged. 



Woodend. — Black (illy yearling, star on 

 forehead, brown nose, no brand. 



Harding. — Bay pony (gelding), about 

 13.3 hands, four years old, black points, 

 marks of sore hack, long tail, no brand. 



^^tu.— One sheep (ewe). Ked cow 

 and calf, branded TM right hip. Bay 

 gelding, no marks or brand, age about two 

 years. 



Colenso.— 13 half-bred Angora goats, 

 wethers. 2G half-bred Angora goats, ewes. 

 3 black-and-white kafir goats, ewes. 3 

 black kafir goats, ewes. 3 brown kafir 

 goats, ewes. 3 grey kafir goats, ewes. All 

 with ears slit ; no other marks. And one 

 wether and two ewe sheep, no brands. 



In connection with the advances to dairy 

 factories approved at the meeting of the Meat 

 and Dairy Board last week, it might be men- 

 tioned that the amount up to which advances 

 •were made, in the case of Mr. Sealey's condensed 

 milk factory at Trelawny, was £1,400, and the 

 case of the Queensland Farmers' Co-operative 

 Dairy Company, &\:M'}.—Quce7idandi'i: 



When Arthur Young visited the county Tyrone 

 in 1770 there was scarcely a wheeled cart in the 

 country, all the peasants using sleds, which could 

 be had for about half-a-crown as against the 35s. 

 which a wheel car cost. In tne county Cavan he 

 was astonished to find that the people " very 

 commonly plough and harrow with their horses 

 drawing by the "tail ; it is done every season." 

 The people insisted that when the horses were 

 tired from collar work all that was needful to 

 rest them was to strip off their harness and make 

 the plough or harrow fast to their tail. This, 

 remarks Young, is no jost, but " cruel, barbarous 

 truth." The same practise was in vogue in the 

 Western islands of Scotland later than 1776. 



