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WHEN A BUCKLE IS LOST. 
The accompanying illustration (from the American Agriculturist) shows 
how to join the ends of the driving reins together when the buckle has been. 
lost. With a pocket-knife cut the end of each rein, as shown at A; then, by 
slipping the extreme end of each through the tack-shaped opening of the 
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other, a reasonably firm union is effected. The necessity of always keeping 
the reins fastened together cannot be too strongly emphasised. If a horse 
becomes frightened, and one rein is dropped, there is no possible way of 
recovering it, if it is not fastened to the other. 
IMPORTANT TO RICEGROWERS. 
The Zropical Agriculturist, Ceylon, writes:—Indian Gardening publishes 
a most interesting article, detailing a curious discovery made by Mr. N. G. 
Mukerjee, M.A., M.A.R.C., Professor of Agriculture, Civil Engineering College, 
Sibpur, in the cultivation of rice, which should have an important practical 
bearing on this crop—in Bengal, at any rate. Mr. Mukerjee has, in fact, 
succeeded in evolving an aus paddy with aman tendencies, in addition to produc- 
ing superior varieties of avs paddy. It is expected that the discovery will be of 
material benefit to cultivators, and our contemporary recommends that steps 
should be taken to make known the discovery far and wide. 
A LARGE PIG. 
A Jersey red boar was recently slaughtered in the county of Essex, 
England. It was two and a-half years old, weighed alive 1,610 lb., and killed 
out, dressed, 1,337 Ib. It was 30 inches across the loin, 30 inches across the 
ham, 72 inches in girth, and 108 inches from tip of snout to end of tail. “When 
split at the shoulders its flesh cut just 8 feet thick from rind to rind outside 
Shoulder blades. The cheeks or jowls were nearly 24 inches wide at top. The 
face of the monster hog measured only 16; inches. From hip bone to toe 
Imeasurement was 5% feet, or 66 inches, which gives one the idea of the size of 
the ham. 
_ TO GET RID OF COCKROACHES. 
Mr. E. S. Gorton sends us the following recipe for getting rid of cock- 
toaches, and, as we have ourselves succeeded in ridding the house of all but a 
few small ones by the same means, we can vouch for its efficacy: Put six- 
Pennyworth of boracic acid in the nooks and corners. Within a couple of 
months there will not be a cockroach left. Do not expect them to disappear 
at once or even ina few weeks. Just keep the acid going, and the result is certain. 
. Gorton says he has never seen a dead cockroach killed by the acid. 
Neither have we. ‘They simply vanished, all but some small ones, which seem 
mmune to any poison. 
