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wood furniture, which I patriotically had 

 made for myself, I asked Mr. Pep worth 

 about the nature of the Grevilla robusta 

 in those respects. The timber of the 

 adopted tree, he affirmed, was perfect — it 

 never shrank, however hot and dry the 

 weather might be, and it never swelled in 

 rainy. The tree which had supplied the 

 wood was twenty years old, and the 

 trunk -was 20 inches thick. Referring to 

 the difficulty in getting trees determined, 

 Mr. Pepworth mentioned that, through 

 ignorance at the time, he cut down a lot 

 of Marginata for selling as mining props 



at the common price of such poles. In 

 a short time Mr. Pepworth hopes to plant 

 out 3,000 of the Eucalyptus Panicnlata, 

 the common Ironbark Marginata, the 

 Jarrah wood Amygdalina, and Diversi- 

 color or Karri tree of Western Australia. 

 He is a firm believer in the planting of 

 Australian gums for profit. 



Here, at Faugh-a-Ballagh, were all the 

 charms and interests of country life within 

 but half-an-hour's canter from Maritz- 

 burg. It was a fact I found difiicult to 

 realise. 



The British iVIiiif Standard. 



THE regulations made by the Board of 

 Agriculture for the sale of milk ex- 

 tend to the whole of Great Brilain, and 

 came into operation on September Ist. 

 Below are.the regulations, from which it 

 will be seen that they provide that milk 

 containing less than three per cent, of 

 milk fat shall be presumed for the pur- 

 poses of the Food and Drugs Act not 

 genuine, by reason of the abstraction of 

 fat or the addition of water. Milk con- 

 taining less than 8-5 per cent, of milk 

 solids, other than milk fat, shall be pre- 

 sumed not genuine by reason of the ab- 

 straction of milk solids other than milk 

 fat, or the addition of water. The two 

 fort going regulations do not apply to milk 

 sold as skimmed, separated or condensed 

 milk. The third, which deals with 

 skimmed or separated milk, not being 

 condensed milk, provides that a sample 

 containing less than nine per cent, of milk 

 solids shall be presumed not genuine by 

 reason of the abstraction of milk solids 

 other than milk fat, or the addition of 

 water. 



The following is a full text of the 

 regulations : — 



Milk, 



(1) Where a sample of milk (not being 

 milk sold as skimmed, or separated, or 

 condensed, milk) contains less than three 

 per cent, of milk fat, it shall l)e presumed, 

 for the purposes of the Hale of Food and 

 Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899, until the con- 

 trary is proved, that the milk is not 

 genuine, by reason of the abstraction 

 therefrom of milk fat, or the addition 

 thereto of water. 



(2) Where a sample of milk (not being 

 milk sold as skimmed, or separated, or 

 condensed milk) contains less than 8-5 

 per cent, of milk solids other than milk 

 fat, it shall be presumed, for the purposes 

 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875 

 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, that 

 the milk is not genuine, by reason of the 

 abstraction therefrom of milk solids other 

 than milk fat, or the addition thereto of 

 water. 



Skimmed or Separated Milk. 



(3) Where a sample of skimmed or 

 separated milk (not being condensed milk) 

 contains less than 9 per cent, of milk 

 solids, it shall be presumed, for the pur- 

 poses of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 

 1875 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, 

 that the milk is not genuine, by reason of 

 the abstraction therefrom of milk solids 

 other than milk fat, or the addition 

 thereto of water. 



A good horse, like a good house, is built "from 

 the ground up," the superstructure of the future 

 horse being formed in the weaning colt. He 

 who takes the best care of his growing colts 

 always has the best mature horses. Too many 

 are content to let their weaners " root hog or 

 die " practically seeming to think that a paddock 

 of dry grass is quite good enough for the foals. 

 This is a grave mistake. A young and growing 

 animal of any class requires something more 

 than mere " filling." It must have nutritious, 

 tissue-building, and blood-making food, It is a 

 good deal easier to put two years' growth on a 

 colt the first year of its age, than it is to " make 

 up " for a year's lof s of growth in two or three 

 years A good growth the first year of a < olt's 

 life costs less than at any other age, but is 

 twice as valuable to the breeder a fact that is 

 too often ignored. 



