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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 2,216 words
  3. J. w. CAMPBELL'S REPORT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 400 words
  4. MESSRS. GRAINGER AND SON'S REPORT.

    Business through the week has been good. The maize market is quiet, buyers not operating to any extent, a few lines have moved at 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Only good dry samples are saleable. At our usual ...

    Article : 385 words
  5. FOALS AND THEIR TEETH.

    The foal is born with twelve grinders. When our front teeth have made their appearance the foal is twelve days old, when the next four assert themselves its age will be about twenty-eight days. ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. PLANT LICE.

    Few plants except those of the lowest orders are exempt from the ravages of aphides or plant lice, though some are injured much more than others. Aphides in general are wingless, but in the ...

    Article : 312 words
  7. WILLIAM WALKER'S REPORT.

    The stock market is unaltered, and there is a good demand for both cattle and sheep, but prices have not hardened during the week. I have buyers in treaty for some large lines of cattle, and ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. Gunnedah Markets.

    Properties.—Better demand but not much business: we hope to report some large transactions shortly. Store Sheep.—70 points of rain during the week, ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. THE JAVA FOWL.

    There are three varieties of Java fowl—the black, white, and mottled: it is supposed that the two latter sprang from the blacks. History dops not tell us how old the breed is—even in 1845 they were ...

    Article : 292 words
  10. THINNING CORN.

    One of the disadvantages of poor seed corn is that there is a constant tendency on the part of planters to put in too much seed. The idea, of course, is that some will fail to grow. Oftener, however, the ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. Sydney Markets.

    Fat Cattle.—2,600 yarded. Prices dropped to extreme low rates. Good to best lots bullocks, £415s to £5 18s 6d. Fat Sheep.—34,200 penned. Market firmer[?] ...

    Article : 200 words
  12. CULTURE OF THE AMARYLLIS.

    A correspondent, writing to an exchange, says:— The main point in cultivating this plant is to secure a good supply of healthy foliage. The cause of so many failures in raising the amaryllis is in not ...

    Article : 362 words
  13. DEVONS IN ENGLAND.

    "Will you please give," writes a correspondent, "the standing of the Devons in England. Which are they regarded most for, beef or milk?" In an official report upon the Devons in England, it is ...

    Article : 676 words
  14. The Farm and Garden.

    A great mistake is sometimes made in ventilating cellars and milk houses. The object of ventilation is to keep the cellars cool and dry, hut thia object often fails of being accomplished by a common ...

    Article : 309 words
  15. PROPER PRUNING.

    Removal of amall twigs ia not injurious, but cutting off branchea of three or four inches diameter is hurtful. It is a good rule from the beginning to preserve a straight leading shoot, merely topping ...

    Article : 265 words
  16. THE GERANIUM.

    It is the window plant par excellence. And what beautiful shows of geraniums are often made in windows. Probably the best effect in this way is produced by allowing the plants always to face the ...

    Article : 409 words
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