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killed an eland from his park for the table. It weighed 1,176 lb., was as huge 
as a shorthorn, but with bone not half the size. It was tried in every shape of 
joint—roasted, boiled, braised—and the verdict was that a new meat of sur- 
passing value had been added to the products of the English park. 
In Africa it feeds on various kinds of acacia, and on the “ Kanna,” which 
is just our salt bush. - They prefer bush of every sort, even eating the bitter aloe. 
The writer then gives an extract of a letter from Mr. J. H. Maiden, 
Director of the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, showing the affinities between the 
Cape and Australian floras, proving that Nature has prepared our lands for this 
animal, which would doubtless have been here had it been able to cross the seas. 
The same climate, its own food, no natural enemies in large carnivora like the 
lion—what noble herds there would have been to welcome the first settler.* 
As for disease, it had none until disease was imported. 
Mr. Griffiths, for sixteen years manager of Nymagee Station of 128,000 
acres, stated that £17,700 had been fruitlessly spent in scrubbing that 
station. Suppose half that sum had been spent in stocking with elands, what 
would be the value of that property now? 
Suppose all or half the money that had been spent upon trying to acclima- 
tise the salmon had been spent in bringing’ the eland to Australia, we should 
have herds here now that would have converted our scrubby Western lands 
into a. reproductive region. 
The animal, like the goat, may have a trick of pawing its foods to break 
down thorns ; if so, it may eat the prickly pear, as well as the prickly wattle, 
which contains much water, which, in Africa, it obtains by eating the spekboom, 
a plant of the pig-weed class of vegetation. 
The pamphlet concludes with ‘a long list of plants common to South 
Africa and Australia. It would be well if some wealthy, enterprising, patriotic 
persons interested in the Australian meat supply would make a commencement 
of introducing this valuable animal. It would be no experiment, for the 
conditions of life in the west of Australia are practically identical with those of 
its own African home. Our illustration is‘taken from Mr. Benbow’s pamphlet. 
A GENERAL PIG REMEDY. 
While a sick pig is generally hard to cure, and there are many remedies 
prescribed for hog ailments, I have only one remedy for a sick pig, and it is a 
very simple one. Rheumatism, paralysis, blind staggers, thumps, scours, &c., 
I treat all alike, gouge in varying proportions. My cure-all or panacea is 
nothing more than fresh new milk and turpentine. For a young pig—say six 
weeks—I administer a teaspoonful of turpentine in, say, half-a-pint of milk. 
Unless the pig is very sick, it will readily drink this. If too far gone to drink, 
it must be administered with a spoon. An older pig, however, will seldom 
refuse new milk, even when a table-spoonful is given in a quart or more. I 
always keep a supply of turpentine on hand, and, when there is anything wrong 
with the pigs, at once give a dose of turpentine and new milk. It is the best 
remedy I know of for all the ills that pigs are heir to. Grade the dose from a 
teaspoonful for a six-weeks-old to a tablespoonful or more for a mature hog. 
The milk may be given ad libitum, or as much as the pig will take to drink 
freely.—Hoard’s Dairyman. 
BREEDS OF PIGS COMPARED. 
With the object of testing the relative merits of a number of leading 
breeds of pigs for the production of baconers suitable for the British markets, 
an experiment was conducted last year in connection with the Ontario 
* Probably had the eland been able to cross, the lion would have also been here to welcome 
the settlers.—Ed. Q.4.J. : 
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