Supplement to the "Tropical AgricuUwisi." [July 1, 1899. 
distances, it is claimed, will give the shipper his 
packing case free of cost, which is a consideration 
in the expense account not to be overlooked. A 
veneer factory solely for this purpose, worked by 
an English company, has already made its 
appearance in Toronto. Another mill, by a 
different English company, is being built in the 
easterly section of New Brunswick, where hard- 
woods abound close to the seaboard, from where 
shipments to England, the great user of packing 
cases, can be economieally made by water the year 
round. Here the veneer is manufactured, cut into 
sizes, and shipped to the London factory, where 
the cases are put together and distributed. 
It is not generally known that the expressed 
juice of the garlic makes an excellent cement for 
broken glass and China. The juice must be 
applied as soon after breakage as possible, as the 
edges of the broken parts become worn away by 
friction. This makes aa everlasting cement, and 
if the edges are joined no sign of fracture remains. 
The expressed juice of an onion also makes a very 
good adhesive fluid. 
The sweetest oranges generally have rusty 
looking coats. An English 'expert says : — Pick 
out the dingiest in the box and you will get the 
best." Another test is weight. The heaviest 
orangbs have the thinnest rinds. Thick-skinned 
fruit are apt to dry inside. The Glen Eetreat 
oranges of Queensland are very fair-skinned heavy 
fruit and are amongst the best, if not the best of 
the mandarins. 
Two Government Veterinary Surgeons in Cape 
Colony recammend Cooper's dip (a well-known 
patent preparation) as the best remedy for ticks. 
One pound of the dip mixed with 20j gallons of 
water and afterwards with 4 lbs. of soft soap 
should be used to wash the animals. Owing to 
the depositof sulphur among the hair, fresh ticks are 
found unable to gain a lodgement for some period 
after the animal has been freed of the pest. 
A writer to the Queensland AgriculturalJournal 
highly recommends a simple remedy for stings 
froni bees, warps, ants and stinging plants. It is 
calleti the '• wet-earth " cure and consists of nothing 
more than applying moistened earth or mud to the 
affected parts. 
Orange trees are very long-lived. In the orangery 
at Versailles is a tree, raised from seed, planted in 
1421. There is another in the convent of St. 
Sabina, in Eome, said to have been planted by St. 
Dominic in 1200. In the neighbourhood of Finale 
is a tree which bears nearly 8000 oranges in a single 
year. In Holland are many trees which have been 
in the same family for from 200 to 300 years. 
