420 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 May, 1898. 
LUNG-WORMS IN SHEEP. 
THE Sydney Stock and Station Journal states that a series of experiments have 
been conducted in the colony by Mr. Arthur Darby, with a view of discovering 
a means of causing sheep to expel Jung-worms without recourse to the ordinary 
inter-tracheal injections. ‘Two sheep experimented upon by him expelled from 
twenty-five to thirty worms each through the nostrils. It was done by an 
injection of milk. Sugar and water and oatmeal and mucilage were tried, but 
milk was found the most effective. 
THE WATER HYACINTH, 
Many persons who have seen the innocent-looking and, when in bloom, beautiful 
Water Hyacinth, lately growing in some quantity at the Brisbane Botanic 
Gardens, have expressed disbelief in its injurious spreading qualities, as 
described by Mr. W. Soutter, Assistant Inspector of State Farms, in Volume 
I., Part 3, of this Journal. Now comes further news concerning the beautiful 
pest. The Mlorida (U.S.) Agriculturist says :—Captain J. W. Sackett, of the 
United States Engineering Corps, is at Palatka with the tug “ Biscayne” for 
the purpose of trying a new experiment in the way of getting rid of the water 
hyacinths which haye become such a uuisance in the St. John’s River. The 
plan is to gather up masses of the pests with nets and tow them out to sea. 
Lhe work is now going on under the supervision of Captain Sackett. 
NEW CORN PRODUCT. 
Ir appears as if cornstalks were steadily pushing their way, under scientific 
manipulation, to the front as a most useful product. In Illinois (United 
States) there is afactory where cellulose from the pith of corn is manufactured. 
This material is used to fill up the space between the inner skin and outer wall 
of battleships. It is forced into the space under great pressure, and when a 
shot passes through the ship’s side, and relieves the pressure at this point, the 
compressed cellulose immediately expands and tightly closes the hole made by 
the ball, and thus instantly stops the leak. In manufacturing this cellulose, 
the cornstalks first have the outer coating stripped off by machinery. These 
strips are then ground into a fine meal, and, as we are informed by the 
Louisiana Planter, is used for stock feed under the name of the “new corn 
product.” : 
The Maryland Station had in a previous test demonstrated that this corn- 
stalk shell-meal is a nutritious and valuable cattle feed, and in the tests 
reported in this bulletin it is compared with corn, oats, and hay .as a horse 
feed. 
In all, nine different animals have been fed on rations with the new corn 
product as a substitute for hay, and the only difficulty that has been experi- 
enced in feeding it was with two horses who had other horses besides them 
to whom hay was being fed. These animals became sullen and refused their 
feed, but, on their next door neighbours being placed on the same rations they 
were receiving, all went along smoothly. All of these horses had been some- 
what accustomed to a “ mixed feed,” so this form of ration was not so new to 
them as it would be perhaps to many horses. _ ‘The horse that relished this form 
of ration best at the start was one that had been accustomed to eating wet 
brewers’ grains, which would confirm the observation that in feeding animals 
there is much in habit and custom. Those who would attempt to feed this 
material for the first time had probably better start in by feeding the same hay 
and grain which the horses had been eating as a “mixed feed,” and then, 
after accustoming them to that, change to the other. The fact that horses 
ate this feed continuously for five months, and relished it more at the end than 
at the beginning, seemed satisfied at all times, together with the testimony of 
the weights, is sufficient for concluding that the new corn product is a good 
food for horses, and can replace hay for that purpose. 
