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  2. ON THE LAND. HATCHING DIFFICULTIES.

    Some breeds of fowl [?]seem to find more difficulty in breaking through the shell than others. When anyone understands the way in which a chicken comes out it is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,478 words
  3. IMPROVEMENT OF GRAIN CROPS BY SELECTION.

    Many years ago I retailed in these columns a reported conversation between the late Prince Consort and a Lothian farmer on the subject of the improvement of oats. ...

    Article : 894 words
  4. "GOOD OLD SEED BETTER THAN DOUBTFUL NEW."

    Mr.F.J.Baker, A.R.C.Sc., F.R.H.S., a member for many years of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Soceity, recently read an interesting paper ...

    Article : 595 words
  5. LONDON COWKEEPERS 120 YEARS AGO.

    The cowkeepers round London breed very few cattle, (says a writer in 1799) "and those they do breed only from favourite cows, which become so merely from ...

    Article : 444 words
  6. TOBACCO SEED IMPROVEMENT

    The Wisconsin Station for several years has carried on tobacco improvement through seed selection (says a farmer's bulletin just issued by the United States ...

    Article : 1,002 words
  7. PLOUGHING IN GREEN CROPS.

    Plants of rapid growth are often cultivated for no other purpose than that of being; ploughed into the soil while yet green. The advantages to ...

    Article : 910 words
  8. GOOD AND BAD FEET IN HORSES.

    Turning over some old specimens recently I came across the cast of a wild horse's foot, and compared it with others. I wondered what difference, if any, the student ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 760 words
  9. HORSE BREEDING IN ENGLAND 150 YEARS AGO.

    Denbighshire was a great horse-breeding country a century and a half ago. "Every farmer," says Mr. Geo. Kay, "bred a few horses for sale above what was necessary ...

    Article : 475 words
  10. LOSSES FROM FARMYARD MANURE.

    According to a bulletin issued by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, leaching is perhaps the most important cause of loss of plant food in the ...

    Article : 482 words
  11. DOCTORING FARM STOCK.

    One of the most perplexing and unsatisfactory things the ordinary farmer is called upon to do is to doctor sick animals. And yet in the course of the year many ...

    Article : 880 words
  12. SHOW YARD JUDGING.

    All the advantages gained by making popular classes and giving substantial prizes may easily be lost in either trying to save a few pounds by asking men to ...

    Article : 318 words
  13. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES.

    We referred recently in these columns (says the "Lousina Planter") to the purchase of some 50,000 acres of the Friar lands in the Philippines, presumably by an ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. EXPERIMENTS FOR FARMERS.

    Addressing himself to the subject of farm experiments, Mr. Summers at a recent meeting of the Freeling branch, of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, ...

    Article : 431 words
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