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  2. THE Farm and Garden. THE FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR FOR APRIL.

    KITCHEN GARDEN.—Gardeners will be kept busy this month. Sow all kinds of vegetables—Cabbages, cauliflowers, kail, kohlrabi, celery, turnips, carrots, parsnips, peas, broad beams, ...

    Article : 403 words
  3. The Garden. USEFUL HINTS FOR THE GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE FOR APRIL.

    This weather is almost had enough to make one forswear the gentle art, especially when the Waterworks Department cats off the supplies, without which it is utterly impossible to ...

    Article : 1,699 words
  4. SELECTION OF BREEDING SWINE.

    In an informal gathering of swinebreeders, at which the writer happened to be present, not long since, a gentleman of great experience, and whose success as a breeder has frequently ...

    Article : 456 words
  5. THE GERMINATION OF SEEDS.

    One of most important matters connected with seeds is, of course, to ascertain their values and to settle their percentage of germinating examples, when compared with those that will ...

    Article : 980 words
  6. TOO FAT BY HALF.

    There is much force in the assertion made by a recent writer in the Standard that there is a great mistake made in breeding cattle for fat instead of aiming at the production of lean ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. METEOROLOGICAL.—MARCH 27—APRIL 2.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 words
  8. WEATHER NOTES.

    The absence of rain is beginning to excite serious apprehensions. Owing to the long-protracted drought agriculturists have been unable to proceed with the operations usual to ...

    Article : 330 words
  9. IMPORTATION OF STUD CATTLE.

    Mr. William McCulloch, senior partner of the well-known Carrying Company, recently imported into Victoria a fine shipment of cattle from England, and intends, ...

    Article : 440 words
  10. The Dairy.

    The "Cooley system" of butter-making (says the Rural New Yorker, in a report on the recent International Dairy Fair, held at New York) for a young invention may ...

    Article : 670 words
  11. TREATMENT OF EXHAUSTED SOILS.—No. VI.

    Animal manure should be used after a clean summer fallow. This latter means of restoring an exhausted soil has been followed in all agricultural countries from very ancient times. It ...

    Article : 1,584 words
  12. Farm and Station. THE NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

    Whilst England claims the credit of having laid the foundation of much that is admirable in the private characters of American citizens, and of all that is stable ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  13. POINTS IN A SADDLE HORSE.

    The most desirable points in a saddle horse are what are known as the saddle gaits, and of these the most important is the walk. This is the most important, because the most valuable ...

    Article : 613 words
  14. LAND SELECTIONS.

    Sir—Allow me through the medium of your valuable paper to endorse in fall the remarks re land selectors under the present system contained in your issue of March 29 inst., by ...

    Article : 322 words
  15. THE BRANDS ACT.

    A report has been issued by the Chief Inspector of Sheep on the Brands Act, which will come into operation on the 1st of May next. It ...

    Article : 910 words
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