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  2. ROUND THE FARM.

    It is often desirable to have fine manura for use in hills and drills; and it is also at times necessary, when artificial fertflacrs are humpy, to pulveriue them for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 132 words
  3. CHOPPING POTATOES AND ROOTS.

    A ready way of chopping a few potatoes or pumpkins is to use a spade ground to a sharp edge, and a box in which the roots are quickly reduced to slices. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 128 words
  4. STRAINING WIRE NETTING.

    A correspondent of the Melbourne "Leader" gives some good practical hints on pulling of wire netting. He writes:— If the netting is to be erected alog kide a wire fence, the best way is to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 811 words
  5. CULTIVATION OF BROOM MILLET

    Millet or brown corn (sorghum vulgare) is not a crop that has received much attention from Queensland farmers, but it has its good points, and, in view of the ...

    Article : 820 words
  6. DURABLE WHITEWASH.

    The complete saucceas is well known of the formuls for whitewash adopted by the United States Government as a coating for lighthouses, and for its cffectual ...

    Article : 381 words
  7. THE RUSH TO THE TOWNS.

    The continual exodus of the young and ablebodied of both sexes from rural districts is a fact only too well known by all who have to do with agricultural land. ...

    Article : 183 words
  8. PINEAPPLE PULP.

    The Department of Agriculture and Stock forwarded to London in April thirty cases of pineapple pulp and ten cases of [?]liced pineapple in syrup. The Continental ...

    Article : 215 words
  9. A ROAD-GRADING DRAG.

    A useful apparatus for making "dirt" roads on the form is the split-log drug, which is thus described in the " Breeder's Gazette":— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 360 words
  10. REPAIRING A SPLIT TREE.

    Sometimes a large tree becomes unable to hear the weight of its widespreading branches, and splits at the juncuion of the main branches. If the tree be valuable— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 275 words
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