1 June, 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 493 
A STAKE PULLER. 
The illustration {shows a simple, effective, and very convenient implement 
for pulling up stakes{when removing an old fence. A stout pry has two round 
iron arms attached jby staples to its end, as shown. The iron has its ends 
turned in and drawn to a point so that it van be driven into the stake, when 
the latter can be pulled up with ease. If the stake is large the arms can easily 
be sprung apart so that the points can be driven in on each side.— Orange 
Judd Harmer. 
TO HAUL UP POSTS: 
R. A., Moree, writes :—Some of your farmers’ devices are not half bad, 
Here is one I use. It is not my idea. I saw it in an American paper some 
years ago, and it is all right. It is a plan of pulling up old posts. In this 
locality we get some kind of a wheel that has a broad tire, and by hitching a 
log chain to the post next to the ground, and passing it up over ihe top of the 
wheel, a team hitched to the other end can soon lift a post out of the ground. 
Posts can be pulled faster by this method than any.I have ever tried.— Station 
and Farm. 
INFLAMMATION OF KIDNEYS IN HORSES. 
Open the bowels by giving 1 pint or 2 pints of linseed oil two or three 
times, at intervals. Apply fresh sheepskin, skin side in, to loins. Give two 
scruples white hellebore twice daily, and abundance of linseed tea. If in much 
pain, add 1 oz. tincture of opium to the purgative. 
REVISION OF LIST OF SOCIETIES, 
During July the list of Agricultural and Horticultural Societies and 
Associations, as published in the Journal, will be revised. Secretaries of 
societies who have not as yet replied to the inquiries made by the Department of 
Agriculture by circular in December last are requested to do so before the 30th 
June instant. 
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