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  2. JERSEY COWS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT.

    THE Jersey cow is a singularly docile and gentle animal; bat the male, on the contrary, is apt to become fierce after two years of age. In those bred on the heights of St. Ouen, St. Brelade, and St. Mary, there is a hardness and ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  3. BERLIN v. LONDON.

    MR. W. A. Bredribb, of Brighton, Victoria, a gentlemen who is most assiduously labouring to effect a reform in the customs pursued at London and other wool sale, furnishes the following important comparisons between sales recently ...

    Article : 547 words
  4. ANIMAL FOOD FOR EXPORTATION.

    SIR,—"Pastoral" teems to think that I have fallen into tie mistake of supposing that the whole "east" goes to the butcher, simply because there is new country to stock. What has the removal of cattle from one part of the ...

    Article : 246 words
  5. AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

    A PROLIFIC YIELD.—Mr. James Potter, of South Gundagai (says the Times), has just finished threshing the yield of a four-acre paddock of oats, and the result is at the rate of 75 bushels to the acre. He also threshed ...

    Article : 293 words
  6. THE HISTORY OF WHEAT.

    IF there be any one natural product of the earth which, more than any other, may be taken as a universal symbol of civilisation and progress, that plant is certainly wheat, on whose diffusion and improved culture throughout the world ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  7. FLOUR-MILL INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    IT is always a sourceof gratification (says the South Australian Register) to witness the development of new industries or the extension of old ones, especially in a place where every fresh enterprise contributes to the general ...

    Article : 1,081 words
  8. HORTICULTURE.

    TREE FERNS.—Australia being naturally one of the chief habitats of these wonders of the vegetable kingdom, and as they form when properly planted a valuable adornment to our gardens, we might certainly expect to see them more ...

    Article : 1,661 words
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