480 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Noy., 1899. 
because its progenitors have been 
d for light work alongside of its 
admit of its being sold as 
comes to the call, takes naturally to harness, 
used for scarce anything else, and a colt use 
dam on the farm will almost break itself sufficient to ; 
fairly tractable and mannerly without extra preparation, as it approaches its 
fourth year. It, therefore, costs very little, if anything, for a farmer to get his 
hackney-bred colts ready for the dealer when he comes to make his purchases. | 
The hackney has been ridiculed in this country as simply being a “ show 
horse, because exhibitors have over-advertised him'as such. If a gentleman 1 
town has one or more beautiful, high-stepping horses, he likes to keep them 
always in high condition for the show ring or the fashionable promenade. To 
byiously unfair, as he 1s 
ask such a horse to perform long journeys would be 0 
not in condition for it. The untrained trotter or thoroughbred racehorse 
would make a much worse showing on the track than the untrained hackney 
would on a long journey. A hackney kept in good hard condition for work on 
country roads will pull a heavy trap with two or more passengers in it, and keep 
up a regular 10, 12, or 14 imile-an-hour gait for hours; and given proper 
training, can be made todo similar feats to those for which his ancestors were 
famous, such as “17 miles in 56 minutes, carrying 182 Ib. ”; 30 miles to 
market and 30 back again, pulling a heavy cart containing a fat farmer and 
196 Ib.,” &e. 
baskets filled with merchandise”; 1 mile in 8 minutes, carrying 
The necessity for such endurance and work has long since disappeared, and 
the habit being disused, has become dormant ; but endurance is not necessarily 
eradicated from the blood. 
The drawing shows a stallion with shortened or “docked” tail. Many of 
the young stallions that are to be turned over to farmers will not be “ docked,” 
but will be allowed to retain their full tails, so that the horses will not suffer 
from flies and other insects, and so shall not fret and lose flesh when turned out 
to graze.—Rural New Yorker. 
The Orchard. 
THE FRUIT FLY. 
e, the attention of all fruit- 
As the season for summer fruits is now approaching 
growers is called to the importance of, or rather necessity for, concerted action 
to prevent such fruits being destroyed by the fruit fly. If fruitgrowers are to 
obtain any benefit from the coming crop, it is essential that they should do their 
utmost to keep the fruit fly in check. The fly has already made its appearance 
this spring, and unless strenuous efforts are made to keep it in check there is every 
probability that it will destroy a great part of the summer fruit crop. Such a loss 
can, however, be greatly minimised if the gathering and destruction of all infested 
fruit, particularly so early in the season, be thoroughly and systematically 
carried out, not only by those who make their living, or a part of their living- 
by fruit culture, but by everyone who has a fruit tree or trees in his garden. 
All infested fruit should be destroyed by boiling, the boiled fruit being 
fed to poultry or pigs. Boiling is preferable to, and more efficacious than, 
burying. All worthless seedling peaches, guavas, or other fruits growing on 
the banks of creeks, along roadsides, or in abandoned orchards, should be 
destroyed, as they are of no value to anyone, but are actually a public nuisance, 
as they are a constant menace to adjacent orchards, and a regular breeding- 
ground for the fly. F 
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