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have to pick up what was left of my mate and hold a private inquest. He 
sang out: “Good-bye, lad; I’m done.” But he was anything but done. 
The log was solid. His first move on crawling out was towards his beloved 
saw. “There! I knew it would be buckled.” Nota word about his wonderful 
escape, which seemed to him but an ordinary circumstance. 
Now, one word about working the saw. Some inexperienced men, in fact 
all, think that by laying their weight into it they are doing good work. This 
is their mistake. Phe saw should run easily, no violent pressure being placed 
on it. Especially in felling a tree is it essential that each man should give to 
the other. If one man keeps digging the saw in, he drags the other after 
him. I have sometimes allowed a new chum to pull me round from the back 
to the belly cut, and he has wondered how it happened. It is the same when 
cross-cutting. The saw should run easily, working by its own weight. No 
undue pressure is required. 
It is not a bad idea, when felling a tree, to lay a couple of small logs at 
about 10 feet apart, and let the tree fall on them. ‘This raises the butt from 
the ground and admits of easy cross-cutting without any more wedging than 
is necessary to keep the cut open to allow of the free running of the saw. 
Having now felled our tree, we are ready to work it up, and, in my next, 
I shall give directions for cross-cutting, and bursting the logs. 
Dairying. 
MAIZE FOR DAIRY STOCK. 
In the course of a discussion upon fodder plants at the October meeting of the 
Meadows Branch of the S.A. Bureau of Agriculture, Mr. Pearson stated that he 
had tried many fodder plants, but found the best to be lucerne, sorghum varieties, 
and mangolds; ensilage also was valuable. Mr. Grigg did not fayour maize, 
and thought prairie grass and lucerne best. Most of the members favoured 
lucerne and ensilage, as they thought maize produced fat and not much milk. On 
this subject Mr. John Mahon, Principal of the Queensland Agricultural College, 
where last month the dairy cattle were being fed exclusively on maize fodder, 
says that whilst lucerne is not to be despised as a fodder, he finds that barley 
and maize are excellent for producing milk. Maize is certainly not putting 
fat on to the College dairy cattle, but it has undoubtedly increased the milk 
yield. As the quantity of milk given by each cow daily is always registered, 
the results of feeding on barley, lucerne, maize, bran, and molasses are of course 
quite reliable, and, as stated, Mr. Mahon is decidedly in favour of maize fodder 
as a milk-producer. . 
PLAIN TALKS ON BACTERIA AS APPLIED TO FARM PROBLEMS. 
ContINuING a series of clear and practical papers on bacteria as applied to 
Farm Problems, Professor H. 8. Russell, Professor of Bacteriology at the 
Wisconsin (U.S.A.) College of Agriculture, discourses as follows :— 
HOW CAN BACTERIA BE EXCLUDED FROM MILK. 
Long before he was told the reason, the practical dairyman learned by 
experience that cleanliness, thoroughly carried out, enabled him to secure his 
milk in a satisfactory way. The desired result can, however, be much easier 
accomplished if we know the sources of bacterial infection. Washing the 
