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  2. CLEARING LAND WITH DYNAMITE.

    Experience at clearing lands, both in removing stumps and large boulders, with dynamite, in Scotland has proved successful. The following account is given of a late trial in an ...

    Article : 287 words
  3. ANIMAL AILMENTS.

    An Injurious Parasite of the Horse.—As closer and more minute investigations, are made, many hitherto unknown causes of disease are (says the Illustrated Sydney Mail) ...

    Article : 1,062 words
  4. FARM & STATION.

    THIS week there is an absolute dearth of farming and pastoral news, if we except the Dalby land sale of the 11th, which certainly partakes of both Some twenty-nine thousand ...

    Article : 638 words
  5. KEEP THINGS GROWING.

    ONE of the most important rules in all plant culture is to keep up the motion. If a plant stops growing in mid-season from any cause, it is often harder to start agoing than to start ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. BLIGHT ON FEUIT TEEES

    One quarter peck or more of fresh quicklime, 1 pint of sulphur, and 11/2 lbs. soft soap. Choose lime that weighs very lightly, dip a few lumps in, or springle with hot water, and place in a ...

    Article : 235 words
  7. DIGGING POTATOES.

    A CORRESPONDENT of the Country, Gentleman writes:—In the absence of a good potato digger, the idea of ploughing them out is not a bad one. I have tried it with good success. ...

    Article : 194 words
  8. FRUIT GROWING.

    The Pennsylvania fruit growers (says the Gardeners' Chronicle) held their annual convention last January. From the abridged report contained in that journal, we derive some useful ...

    Article : 397 words
  9. EGGS AND CHICKENS.

    WE again give our readers a few extracts from this excellent little poultry work. The last extracts we gave touched on the choice of breeds of the birds to be kept. We shall now ...

    Article : 645 words
  10. REVOLUTIONISING THE PLOUGH.

    The last ten years have seen several very important improvements in this most used of all agricultural implements—the plough—and yet others will follow. The latest invention is ...

    Article : 321 words
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