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Supplement to the " 2'ropical Agriculturist. 
[June 1, !899. 
the maple-tree. In that country, Chicago Prodiuce 
8ay.« tliut at Marengo, 111., fugar is made from tlie 
whey from the cheese vatp. Tliis whey i.s forced 
into large boilers, and after builiiig for some 
time it is run into evaporating pans, where the 
boiling is continued until a thick syrup is left. 
After standing a certain length of time it is again 
boiled, when the hugar forms. The sugar is 
worked over till tlioroughly drained, und is then 
packed in barrels for the refinery. 1; now resem- 
bles the ordinary brown sugar of commerce. The 
secret «if reiiniiig is known only to two persons. 
When the product emerges from the refinery it is 
snow white. A new factory has just been com- 
pleted at Marengo. It requires 5,000 lb. of milk 
to produce one barrel of sugiir, which sells at 
40 cents (la. 8d.) per lb. There &re thus at least 
four commercial products resulting from the 
manipiilalion of milk — viz., butter, cheese, cream, 
and sugar, besides wliich there are waste products 
■which are utilised by farmers in feeding stock. 
The following is a recipd for Banana or Plan- 
tain Jelly, which we have tried and found ex- 
cellent : I'eel the fruit, cut into slices, add three 
cups of water to each jiouud, and boil for one 
hour or till quite soft euough to admit of being 
strained through a net. After stirring add tiie 
sugar (which should l)e the same weiglit as the 
fruit when jieeled and cut up) and some acid to 
taste. Boil all for at least an hour, when the 
jelly will assume a nice colour and consistency. 
The extension of the coffee-growing industry in 
Queensland, especially in the Ivorthern portion of the 
colony, having drawn the attention of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture to the necessity f'lr instruct- 
ing planters, present and prospective, in the best 
metjhods of conducting planting and curing opera- 
tions, the services of Mr. Howard Newport have 
been engaged. Mr. Newport is a coffee-planter of 
eleven years' experience in India, where he 
successfullj' managed a plantation at Melrose, 
Yercand, in the Madras Presidency. He also 
visited Ceylon, where he applied himself to the 
study of coffee culture in that island. He is at 
present visiting all the districts where coffee is 
being grown, and will advise planters on the best 
methods to be adoj)ted in all branches of the 
industry in order to ensure success- 
Dr. F. E. Brown, in a late iseae of the Leejtbuyg 
(Jommercial (U.S.A.) gives a cure for the bit<j of 
rattlesnakes, wliicli he f-ays he has uwd (-ucceas- 
fully in his practice. We reproduce in full his 
letter, whicli may at some time prove of value to 
some of our readers : — Seeing in your paper a 
notice of the deatii of a lady from the 
effect of the bite of a rattlesnake, if occurred to me 
that it would be the j)roper thing to do to give 
you my e.vperience with the tincture of iodine in 
these cases I liave treated thirteen cai^es of 
snake-bites in my practice with simply m'lrvelloua 
results — even restoring to life a«id health when 
the patient was siippoi^ed to lie dying. My first 
case occurred many years ago. A little child, say 
three or four years old, was brought to me with 
two ugly gashes on the instep by a fair-sieed 
rattler. I suppose I saw the child about on hour 
after the bite, with limbs badly swollen and in 
great i)ain. I applied iodine to the wound, and 
gave the child drop doses every ten minutes for 
an hour, then every half-hour until decided 
improvement. The child took 10 io 15 drops in 
all. Next morning the father reported cliild 
perfectly recovered and playing around iiA usual. 
My last case was about Due year ago. A lad about 
fifteen years old, whilst teaching under some 
boards for hen-eggs, was bitten oil his right hand 
by a large rattler. He was brought to me with 
hand and arm enormously swollen, and scarcely 
able to stand on his feet. I pursued precisely the 
same treatment as in my first case, escejit that I 
doubled the dose. He took in all perhaps 25 
drops of the iodine. He recovered rapidly with 
no outward results. Some of my ca.=es were 
much more remarkable than these ; each one 
recovering quieklj' with no suppuration of the 
wounds or other outward results. It is equally 
efficacious in the treatment of dumb beasts. A 
neighbour of mine had a cow bitten, which when 
found was unable to stand. 1 supplied the owner 
with iodine, and advised him to go back and 
drop 10 drops upon her tongue every ten minutes 
for an hour, then every hour for a time. He did 
so, but came back in an hour or so and reported 
that it was too late, as the cow was nearly dead. 
In the morning he went back to see nhat had 
become of his cow, and to his surprise found her 
up and feeding. Her recovery was rapid. 
