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the spirits of ammonia a trial. This last spring I had three fine Jersey heifers 
attacked with the disease; I let them go until the lump on one of them was 
as large as a goose-ege ; I then commenced the ammonia treatment, rubbing 
the lump and jaw throughly with ammonia once a day for a week, then rested 
a week, and then gave them 3 day’s treatment. It blistered them quite 
severely, the treatment seemed to be very painful, but they have no more of 
the disease of lumpy jaw to-day than the veterinary editor has. I advise all 
who have cattle afflicted with this terrible disease to try the remedy. It won't 
cost 10 cents (5d.) per head. 
WET EARTH A BEE-STING CURE. 
Auriovuer wet earth has long been known as a cure for bee and wasp stings, 
very few persons seem to be aware of its value as such. The following example 
may interest some of the readers :— 
Four summers ago, at a picnic in the country, one of my boys found a 
wasps’ nest, and must needs amuse himself pelting it with stones, resuiting in his 
getting very badly stungin the face. Fortunately, I remembered haying read 
of the wet-earth cure, and at once daubed his face with some mud from the 
road, with the happy result that in about 15 or 20 minutes all the painful 
effects had ceased, and very little swelling remained. 
I have since then used this remedy when stung whilst manipulating my 
bees, and find it infinitely better than spirits of ammonia or other popular 
remedies, and the best of it is that it is always ready at hand.—British Bee 
Journal. 
PASTEURISATION OF MILK. 
Goop butter ean be made, and has been by thousands of tons, from milk or 
cream that has never been pasteurised. Pasteurisation is an aid to the attain- 
ment of uniformity, and is remarkably useful in treating milks that are tainted 
or gaseous from the cows being fed on rank fodder, such as lucerne. 
WHEAT HARVEST IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. , 
Turs year the average return of wheat in South Australia has been 6 bushels. 
90 lb. per acre, a great increase on the yield of last year when the average per 
acre was only 8 bushels 45 1b. The South Australian Register gives the total 
yield for 1898-99 as 9,816,666 bushels from 1,550,000 acres. This will leave 
a surplus available for export of 174,553 tons. The quality of the grain is 
reported to be excellent. 
RUST-RESISTANT SEED WHEAT. 
TiteRE is no preparation known which, used as a steep for seed-wheat, will 
ensure for the crop immunity against rust. That being conceded, the following 
letter published in the January number of the Agricultural Journal of the 
Cape of Good Hope will be read with interest. Mr. P. Rocher, of St. Helena, 
Fontein, writes to the Hon. J. H. Hofymeyr, Chairman of the Board of 
Directors :— 
“Tt will no doubt interest you to know that an experiment, as you 
suggested to me the other day—viz., to sow wheat two years old as a preven- 
tive against rust—has by chance been made this year by Mr. Putter, in the 
district of Clanwilliam. He told me he got about 3 bushels of seed wheat 
which happened to be two years old, and that (after he had sown it) all 
the wheat sown on the same piece of land got rust, but that the wheat from 
the 3 bushels of old seed is perfectly free from it. He also sowed a bushel of 
two-year old ‘ Valparaiso Koorn.’ This wheat is now 18 or 20 inches high, and 
quite green yet, but has no rust, notwithstanding that all the other wheat on 
