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TEE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



is an improvement when not required to 

 be flavoured with it; fish especially being 

 much improved in nearly all preparations 

 with the addition of lemon juice, which 

 can be frequently used instead of vine- 

 gar; indeed, it is far better to take and 

 squeeze over oysters than vinegar. When- 

 ever a slightly sharp flavour is required, 

 use lemon-juice. Some apples, when 

 stewed, are rather flavourless, but if 

 cooked with a shred or two of lemon-rind, 

 and some lemon-juice squeezed into them, 

 they will be much improved. 



Lemon-juice can be substituted for 

 wine or brandy in cookery, such as sauces, 

 cakes, etc., and the flavour will be very 

 little difi'erent. In the case of cakes that 

 are required to be kept, and brandy is 

 given in the recipe, lemon-juice may be 

 used in the proportion of one lemon for 

 every wineglassful ordered. 



Mincemeat is as good, and keeps as 

 long, when made with lemon-juice as with 

 brandy. 



Rarey, the Horse 

 Tamer. 



RAEEY, the famous horse-tamer, was 

 oiginally an Ohio farmer. For years 

 he lived in obscurity, teach tng his system 

 to anyone who would pay a few dollars 

 and promise secrecy. He was "discovered" 

 by a sharp American named Goodenough, 

 who saw there was money to be made by 

 horse-taming. Goodenough entered into 

 partnership with Rarey, and the two be- 

 gan by exhibiting the Rarey system be- 

 fore General Sir Vv'm. Eyre's aide- 

 do-camp. Sir William at 'that time 

 being in command of the forces in 

 Canada. After this the partners came to 

 England, with letters of recommendation 

 from Sir W. Eyre, and secured the active 

 patronage of Sir Richard Airey, Lord 

 Alfred Paget, and others. Messrs. "Tatter- 

 sall investigated the J?arcy system of tam- 

 ing, and, convinced that" it' would prove 

 invaluable, and do away with much 

 cruelty and much work, they resolved to 

 help Rarey in every way. A' subscription 

 list was opened for pupils at £10 10s. 

 each, and on March 20th, 1858, Mr. Rarey 

 gave his first lesson, having obtained 330 



subscribers. It became the fashion to go 

 to Rarey's classes, and in their first year 

 in England the two partners made 

 £20,000. 



Rarey's success in taming Lord Dor- 

 chester's famous savage Cruiser was the 

 means of stimulating public interest or 

 curiosity. Cruiser was .such an ill-tem- 

 pered brute that John Day was glad to be 

 rid of him. He could not be got out of 

 the stable without endless trouble. On 

 one occasion Day sent him to Rawcliffe 

 in charge of a groom, whom he cautioned 

 not to piit the horse into a stable. The 

 man ignored the caution, and when the 

 man went into the inn for a 

 drink he left the horse in the 

 stable. The roof had to be 

 pulled off before Cruiser could be secured 

 and brought out again. He was always 

 kept muzzled, and was shown by a groom 

 armed with a bludgeon; and the Rawcliffe 

 Stud Company returned him to Lord 

 Dorchester on account of his vice, it be- 

 ing considered as much as a man's life 

 was worth to attend on him. He had not 

 been ridden for three years when he was 

 brought to Rarey, and after three hours' 

 work, first Mr. Rarey, and then Lord Dor- 

 chester mounted him. The following day 

 Rarey led him from Greywell to London 

 behind an open carriage. 



Disposal of AdamS' 

 hurst Stud Flockm 



MR. ADAMS, so long one of our most 

 successful breeders of Merinos, is 

 disposing of the whole of his Pedigree 

 Stock at the Howick Stock Fair on the 

 Gth of March. 



A gocd story is told of a recently dead old 

 squatter -who was accustumed to punctuate all 

 his sentences with the exclamation, " What 1 

 What I What 1 " uttered in qu ck succession. 

 His station was noted for its inhospitality to- 

 wards the nomadic wanderers of the bush as they 

 tramped in search of work from place to place. 

 One of these, in revenge for being refused 

 rations, one night put a fire-stick in the wool- 

 shed, and, at the same time, wrote on one of the 

 huts : " Pop goes your shed ! What I What 1 

 What 1 " On his attention being called to this, 

 old Brown pulled a carpenter's pencil out of his 

 pocket and scrawled underneath : " Insured up 

 to ihe hilt, What I What I What 1 " 



