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  2. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    Sir,—I have read with much interest (in your columns of last week's issue)" Practico's" letter on the pickling of seed wheat, and quite agree with him in saying that wheat ...

    Article : 303 words
  3. DICSCOREA OR BOUSINGAULTIA?

    Sir,—Will you be good enough to inform me if a certain plant is the Chinese yam (dioscorea batatas). It has a heart-shaped, shining, thick leaf, is a climber, and has long ...

    Article : 182 words
  4. GROWING WATTLES FOR BARK.

    Sir,—If you have no objection I will supplement your remarks in answer to your correspondent signing himself "Wattle Bark." I think that the time has now come that the ...

    Article : 498 words
  5. CURING BETFASTS.

    Sir,—How is biniodide of mercury used in curing setfasts? [This salt is used for the above by mixing it intimately with eight parts of hog's lard, ...

    Article : 78 words
  6. THE MARSUPIAL PEST IN QUEENSLAND.

    Sir,—Many in this colony are anxious to find out the best and cheapest way of getting rid of wallabies and all other marsupial pests. Can yon, through The Australasian, ...

    Article : 107 words
  7. HEDGES FOR RICH SOIL, &c.

    Sir,—1. Will yon kindly inform me what would make the best hedges for Bain Bain, where we haveagood depth of rich soil? What is particularly required is hedges that may be ...

    Article : 224 words
  8. A CROSS BETWEEN CATS AND OPOSSUMS.

    Sir,—In answer to your correspondent "Stocking," relative to a cross between a cat and opossum, I, for one, never heard of such a thing, bat still it is not at all an ...

    Article : 175 words
  9. THE LARRA MERINO—A NEW. VARIETY.

    For many years past it has been the custom of persons engaged in the wool trade to make use of the term "the Australian merino," as if speaking of a distinct variety of this breed ...

    Article : 2,608 words
  10. KANGAROO AND OPOSSUM SKINS.

    Sir,—"Inquirer," who wrote last week, asking who are the buyers of kangaroo, opossum, and other native skins, will find an advertisement in the special colamn from ...

    Article : 40 words
  11. INCRUSTATION OF BOILERS, &c.

    Sir,—Would you please inform me if horse or cow dung, when dried and tightly paoked about an inch tblok rotted a steam-pipe, would act as a non-conductor of heat; also, ...

    Article : 156 words
  12. WEST BOURKE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

    A meeting of the West Bourke Agricultural Society was held at Gardner's Hotel, New Gisborne, on Jane 2; Mr. W. J. Clarke, president, and the Hon. T. F. Hamilton, vice ...

    Article : 904 words
  13. FERNS FOR EUROPE.

    Sir,—I shall be obliged by you or some of your readers informing me of the best and cheapest way of sending home ferns, small and medium sizes; the probable cost, and ...

    Article : 215 words
  14. A SUGGESTION FOR PASTORAL SOCIETIES.

    Sir,—The able critique on the live stock at the Sydney Exhibition by your "special correspondent" is an illustration of the great difficulties experienced by societiesin securing ...

    Article : 585 words
  15. NEW FODDER PLANTS.

    Sir,—Are the following food plants likely to thrive in a hot and dry climate—viz., the prickly comfrey, the screw or mosquit bean, the locust bean, sad the Pentzia? What is ...

    Article : 276 words
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