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  2. THE LAND

    The most valuable part of the manure heap is the rich dark liquid that drains off it. We cannot too often remember that every pint of drainage represents a waste ...

    Article : 1,875 words
  3. RETAILING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.

    A factory with retail agents piles up its product where it is of no use; an experiment station, whose expenses are paid by the people, without a fair adviser, piles up ...

    Article : 313 words
  4. THE VALUE OF EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH.

    The most material problem ahead of this Commonwealth is to develop permanent systoms of agriculture in each province which will enable maximum crops to be annually ...

    Article : 313 words
  5. EFFECT OF SPRAYING POTATOES.

    The advantage derived from spraving the growing potato crop is so well established that it does not require further demonstration. There are however, some points in ...

    Article : 377 words
  6. FLOWER GARDEN.

    General cleaning up and digging will be the work for this month in the flower section and shrubbery. Where the soil is heavy or sour. or where sorred is plentiful, ...

    Article : 825 words
  7. HINTS FOR POULTRY-KEEPERS.

    The show season is just ahead. No one can expect to win prizes unless the birds are [?] and exhibited in the pink of condition. ...

    Article : 241 words
  8. THE ORCHARD.

    Mr E. E. [?] F.L.S. Principal School of Horticulture. Burnley, writes in the "Journal of Agriculture":—The time has now arrived when the general planting of ...

    Article : 969 words
  9. NITRIFICATION OF ORGANIC MANURES.

    1. Nitrogen exists in soils and manures in three forms. 2. Nitrate nitrogen is required by plants. 3. Ammonia nitrogen is the raw material for producing nitrates. 4. Organic ...

    Article : 319 words
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  12. FERTILISERS FOR STRAWBERRIES.

    The strawberry is a very gross feeder, and few Victorian growers are sufficiently generous in the application of fertilisers to their strawberry fields. If the soil is naturally ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. INCREASE THE YIELD PER ACRE.

    I do not entertain for a second the thought that we have approximated the limit of our output from the soil. As a matter of fact we have just begun to attack ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. LESS WATER MORE LAND, LARGER YIELD.

    The acre-inch yield is largest with the smallest quantity of water" per acre, according to a Utain bulletin. In a specific instance repeated in general results with ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. MOLASSES FOR HORSES.

    Besides pulp, whose feeding value is everywhere recognised as of great value, [?] molasses is used very extensively in many quarters, especially for working horses. In ...

    Article : 538 words
  16. GETTING GRAIN AT EXPENSE OF STRAW.

    A Utah experiment in irrigation showed that by use of 3.5 inches of water. applied when wheat was filling out the heads. three bushels more wheat per acre and 461 pounds ...

    Article : 251 words
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