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home supplies should, as far as practicable, be also maintained over imported 
milk and milk products, as, for example, by appointing inspectors at our ports 
and by chemical and bacteriological examinations of the materials imported ; 
the whole expense to be borne by a small tax on all such articles as were 
imported. Incidentally he referred to the success attained in the diminution of 
tuberculosis in cows in Denmark by the aid of the tuberculin test. And, 
finally, he most strongly urged that English people should be educated to 
acquire the habit of cooking their milk before using it. He set aside the 
ordinary objections raised to this proposal, and he showed that if milk were 
boiled for a single instant the danger of tuberculosis would be gone, and a 
cause of thousands of deaths every year amongst children and young adults 
would be removed. He appealed to the medical profession to use their great 
influence in effecting this education, and in thus diminishing the waste of 
human life which resulted from the use of uncooked milk.—Standard. 
BARLY-FRUITING ROSELLAS. 
Mr. EB. R. Brornerron, of Newlands, Yandaran, Bundaberg, sends us a 
sample of rosella fruit, which was gathered on the 27th December. ‘The seed 
from which this fruit sprang was sown in the last week of September. Mr. 
Brotherton has grown rosellas for the past twenty years, but never yet had 
gathered fruit before Christmas. This production of fruit in three months 
before Christmas must be considered abnormal. The Government Botanist, 
Mr. F. M. Bailey, to whom the fruit was shown, expressed his opinion that it 
was a remarkable instance of early fruition, which occasionally. occurs with 
other fruits than the rosella. 
CURE OF MANGE IN HORSES. 
Mr. W. Mewes, farmer at Emu Vale, writes re cure of mange in horses :—I 
was troubled greatly with mange in my horses the summer before last. I 
applied the following simple remedy, and got rid of the pest completely in five 
or six weeks. I waited, before writing to you, to see if the disease was going 
to reappear this summer. It has not done so, hence I can vouch for the remedy. 
. RECIPE. 
Strain the water in which potatoes have been boiled into a bucket, and 
allow it to cool. Mop the affected parts at mid-day and evening copiously with 
this potato water. Three times each day will hasten the cure. The mange 
syill disappear before six weeks. 
We gladly welcome any remedy which has proved itself effectual, but 
would advise those who think they have found a certain cure for this annoying 
disease to follow the example of Mr. Mewes, and wait for developments before 
announcing an infallible remedy. 
SULLIVAN’S EARLY PROLIFIC WHEAT. 
Ay exceptional crop of wheat is said to have been grown by Mr. John A. 
Kennedy at Albury, New South Wales. The grain is a great size, beautifully 
formed, and very clean. ‘The heads are of enormous size, and are simply giants 
in general make-up. The surprising part of it is that in some instances 
thirteen of these heads came from. a single grain of wheat. One expert in 
Sydney to whom we showed our sample says he has never seen anything to 
approach this wheat for size and quality. He called in his assistant from an 
adjoining office, and said to him, “Look at this, my boy; you'll never have. 
another chance to see wheat like that as long as you live.” The variety is 
