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  2. AGRICULTURAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    The weather during the month embraced by our agricultural files was cold and winter, but withal dry and healthy for stock. It was the height of the lambing season, and though ...

    Article : 1,504 words
  3. TANKING BASILS.

    Sir,—Will any of your readers inform me how to tan basils most effectively? Is lime required? ...

    Article : 22 words
  4. AMERICAN CHOPPING AXES.

    Sir,—If it is not out of your way would you kindly say in your answers to correspondents where I can get a true American chopping axe. The axes generally sold in the colonies ...

    Article : 60 words
  5. THE AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

    In the Gazette of last Friday the statistics of the last harvest were published in a complete form. The general results have already been given, but some details of interest to ...

    Article : 1,497 words
  6. SELECTORS' FENCES.

    Sir,—Would you be good enough to answer through the medium of your valuable journal the following question:—Suppose a selector has all his ground fenced in, another person ...

    Article : 160 words
  7. ERADICATING FERNS.

    Sir,—Will you inform me the best method to eradicate the fern out of a light, loamy, sandy soil, with a good natural drainage. [Ferns on sandy soils have been got rid of ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. TREES FOR BLEAK HILLS.

    Sir,—Would you kindly inform me what sort of ornamental trees would be the best to plant on top of a hill, surrounded by plains, and therefore very bleak; the soil being ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. THE CRANESBILL WEED.

    Sir,—I much desire an answer to the following inquiry:—Does anyone know from experience how to eradicate the weed cranesbill, geranium (Erodmm moschatum), from ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. RURAL TOPICS AND EVENTS.

    The reports from the country districts continue to be of the most favourable character. Ploughing and sowing are being poshed forward in every direction, and the weather ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  11. CURING BACON AND HAMS.

    Sir,—Would you be kind enough to inform me, through your valuable paper, the proper way to cure bacon and bams; or the quantity of salt, saltpetre, and sutrar used per stone of ...

    Article : 39 words
  12. VARIEGATED THISTLES.

    Sir,—Large patches of the downs country here in Queensland, through bush fires, wallaby, over-stocking, and droughts combined, have become completely denuded of ...

    Article : 304 words
  13. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    Sir,-I potted aboat three hogsheads of bntter this summer, which I sold last month, and It was pronounced by all who purchased equal to fresh. Considering the trying season ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. POISONING WILD DOGS.

    Sir,—Inquiries havipg been frequently made through your columns as to the most effectual way of extirpating wild dogs, I beg to say that after trials of various kinds of traps, ...

    Article : 252 words
  15. SALTBUSH SEEDS.

    Sir,—Would you allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to state in answer to "D.D." (in The Australasian of the 4th May) that when the proper season ...

    Article : 59 words
  16. CHLOROFORM IN OPERATIONS ON DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

    Sir,—Seeing a letter in your issue of May 11, asking why, or the reason, chloroform is not administered to domestic animals, I should like to ask "W. W." to give an ...

    Article : 83 words
  17. PREPARING SHEEPSKINS.

    Sir,—As an additional answer to in this week's issue, allow me to say that the very best way to treat sheepskins which have to be kept say length of time before disposal ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. SPLINTS ON HOBSES.

    Sir,—In answer, to your correspondent "Glenalvon," I can recommend the following recipe as a core for splints on hones, old or young:—Finely-powered bluestone ...

    Article : 87 words
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