November i, 1881.'] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
467 
the be; I importei 
Perhaps it would also tc 
coloured flesh of the Aus 
Bourdil, an ex-Commission 
millions of slice]), and ex 
tons of wool, at an averag 
1877, the mean weight of 1 
and of washed 2\ lb. Th 
ouillets woul 
and 
only 
man 
from 
lent 
•heep. Following 
•alia had in 187! 
n that year 14S 
of 1 0*d per II). 
c same authority, in Tasmania 
mth Wales, in ' 1878, possessed 
•nt she has 29 millions. To Tas- 
ir of having first imported merinos 
their 
Th 
dairy management and house-keeping to 
i harvest will be inferior to last season's ; 
(present a less yield of 30 millions of busb- 
s fair ; rye, good ; oats, bad ; maize, pass- 
e whole, in point of cereals, France and 
e most favored countries in Europe. Forage 
failure ; beet is suffering from abnormal 
>f temperature, but the vintage promises to 
icity International Exhibition has, from an 
Dint of view, some attractions. In principle 
m of electricity is simply a transmission of 
icret of the economic utility of that power 
id ; the applications will come in due course. 
with 
that 
disco 
but h 
due t( 
from 
The 1 
phylh 
found ;i rcmod\ 
r voluminous, the v 
se, ears long, head si 
four teats ought to 
:ge of Montpcllier tl 
yielding milk from si 
not succeeded of < 
the 
tiraj 
imate is hot and 
for their mill-:, 
The 
Wool, 
tending also the 
d, above all, to 
\ation ot sugar licet ranks high, 
has received a fresh impulse froi 
inland duty on sugar. Connecter 
the now general adoption of the 
fcrio, in lead of the old' plan"' of 
suiting from the new system 1ms 
nutritive for feeding purposes. 
Mid-;, this pulp has next to revok 
agriculturists in the lieighbourlux 
longer rear stocks ; they purchase 
districts and fat them. It is a 1 
remunerative, as the demand for 
supply, and no danger is apprehei 
he aide to compete in furnishing liv 
Th,- distillation of alcohol from 
has made Important progress, an 
monstratc 1 that rectified alcohol 
that i is of no importance from 
Obtained. Despite the devclnpnn 
of the cheese mid butter industri 
land, and Sweden, Franco contir 
It is satisfactory to observe that 
tnlhed a modal for his Benedictine labours on the role 
bf animalcules in the manufacture and ripening of cheese. 
!!< .peeing eggs. Prance not only exports millions for 
Consumption, but for hatching too, and for the latter 
nrppliec incubators. M, Joseph Boussingault, son of the 
pranui chemist, has also been honored for his researches 
in Agricultural Chemistry; nor have the national teachers 
been overlooked for their humble but important services. 
One schoolmaster aged 7">, mid after 50 years in Inli- 
ne-.-, bus been pensioned; he is happy, as he boasts, 
•• 1 itiii going now to commence nevi experiments." 
Some Local Agricultural Societies award premiums t<> 
the schoolmistresses for inculcating general notions 
d M. Savalle has de- 
ls so chemically pure, 
what substance it be 
nt iii the preparation 
68 in Denmark, Eng- 
m ^ to hold her own. 
M. Dnclaux bus ob- 
g, tor improving 
arming does not 
jh held in little 
'ever from which 
he use of arsenic 
lolds back, how- 
l>e sprinkled with 
is in a quart of 
eek look to the 
carriage horses 
Up to the present the mechanical fatting of poultry 
consisted in storing the birds in a pigeon-holeed revolv- 
ing tower, and making each shelf with its tenants pass 
before a man with a bucket of prepared liquid food, 
that he injected in measured quantities through a tube, 
working by a treadle, into the throat of the bird. In 
Italy and France the Humane Societies attempted, but 
without success, to put down this mode of rapidly con- 
tributing to our food supplies. An improvement has 
taken place : instead of the revolving tower, the birds 
are placed, 6 to 8 in number, under a kind of box or 
melon frame, and left to enjoy all the liberty they can 
find therein ; the feeding apparatus is maintained, oncii 
I bird being taken out to be dosed, and then put back 
to enjoy its confined ••constitutional." The framo is 
heated to a certain temperature, that which aids the 
putting up of flesh. 
M. (iuiguet draws attention to eases of pigs having 
been poisoned, by giving in spring cooked potatoes and 
their germs, 01 later a mash of green potato stalks ; 
he adds, excepting the tubercle, every other part of the 
potato contains as deadly a poison as nightshade. 
bmohg the many prizes offered by the National Agro- 
nomical institution id France, is one of much importance 1 
the right of two «f the most SOeeeftsfal candidate- 1 
the annual examinations to reside abroad in the centres 
of the bcit farming districts for three years, at tin- 61 
pause ol the Government, they furnishing reports on the 
farming of such countries. 
