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  2. HORTICULTURAL

    Autumn season is now close at hand, and with it active preparations should be made for all manner of planting. For decorating parks or rather homestead paddocks, providing the land is of a fair description, the trenching of ...

    Article : 389 words
  3. Agricultural Items.

    Our Port Macquarie correspondent writes:—To show the value of farm lands on the Hastings River, I might mention that an estate changed hands recently at over £46 per acre. Mutton (according to a New Zealand paper) is being ...

    Article : 599 words
  4. Flower Garden.

    Plenty of work in this department is the rule Just now. Late-planted dahlias are now showing flower budsund should give a month's or moredisplay of flowers. With older-planted dahlias, keep on cutting their flowers and thereby make ...

    Article : 484 words
  5. Sheep Disease.

    Sir,—I fancy you will agree with me that as worms in sheep are very troublesome as much assistance as possible should be given. With this disease there are several others moving among sheep, owing to the warm, damp, muggy weather ...

    Article : 703 words
  6. Kitchen Garden.

    With a continuance of growing weather, potato crops will be in luxuriant condition and necessitate the earthing up system being well attended to; also fail not to pull up weak shoots. Potatoes that have ripened should be dug ...

    Article : 651 words
  7. The Trotter Burlington.

    Sir,—Will you kindly correct a mistake re the breeding of trotter Burlington, as mentioned in the report of the Goulburn show? It should be bred by E. R. Deane, instead ot A. L. Faithful], and owned and exhibited by A. L. ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. Bushhouse, Greenhouse, and Hothouse.

    During the present month all repotting of plants in the bushhouse and cool greenhouse should be done, and as they have to stand exposed probably to wet or cold the re-potting should be as moderate as possible. Above all ...

    Article : 381 words
  9. Mending a Split Post.

    Fence posts (says the American Agriculturist) split from a variety of causes, and when they are in this condition they make a very insecure fence. The usual way is to merelvnail an old horseshoe or two across the split part ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 189 words
  10. Safety Stirrup.

    In the stirrup herewith illustrated, which is the invention of Mr. A. R. Parkison, of Monongahela City, Pa., the parts are so arranged that, should the rider be thrown, his toot will be released, while the pressure of the foot upon the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 237 words
  11. Rabbitting in Wilcannia.

    Sir,—Kindly allow me to reply to the letter signed "One of the Unemployed," in your issue of 19th instant. Your correspondent appears to be greatly distressed by the fact that owing to his not having sufficient money to enable him ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. Orchard.

    Autumn months specially bring troubles with apple trees of non-blight-proof character. Those growers who suffer from the American blight should, if the trees are not too large, by the scrubbing-brush dipped in turpentine ...

    Article : 474 words
  13. A Durable Trough.

    The common V-shaped trough, as ordinarily constructed, is a short-lived affair. How it may be strengthened and made durable is shown in our engraving, a sketch of which was sent us bv Mr. W. Gemmer, St. Louis Co., Mo. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 201 words
  14. The Great Central Scrub.

    Sir,—I notice in your issue of the 12th Instant a sub-leader referring to Mr. Garrett's plan of conjoining the vexed question of the unemployed and the hitherto shunted question of the pine scrub. Your few remarks go straight ...

    Article : 735 words
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