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  2. CULTURE OF THE CRANBERRY.

    Upon the cultivation of the cranberry a fruit for which there is an enormous demand in Europe, and which would probably do well upon the low coast lands, the California Farmer ...

    Article : 887 words
  3. Station, Farm, & Garden.

    In conjunction with a numerous list of regular contributors to the Station, Farm, and Garden columns of the QUEENSLANDER, we invite the co-operation of all interested in the productive pursuits of the ...

    Article : 2,234 words
  4. Field and Station Correspondent.

    Either on the authority of gentlemen to whom we are privileged to refer, on personal knowledge, or by reference to authorities, we do our best to answer correspondents who write to the QUEENSLANDER for ...

    Article : 99 words
  5. TO PREVENT SHEEP FROM LICKING.

    SIR: A correspondent in your last issue seeks for information how to prevent sheep from licking clay. If he will discontinue the use of rock-salt and ...

    Article : 323 words
  6. LATE AND THICK PLANTING OF COTTON.

    EVERYTHING in regard to the preparation and cultivation of the cotton plant that has emanated from the pen of Mr. Dickson, is in the writer's opinion perfect, except his late planting and the ...

    Article : 756 words
  7. TO KEEP WEEVILS OUT OF MAIZE IN COB.

    SIR: The following method of preserving maize in cob has been found efficacious in this district:—Sprinkle powdered charcoal amongst the cobs, which should be thoroughly dry ...

    Article : 44 words
  8. BONE DUST FOR FOWLS.

    SIR: Are any of your readers acquainted with the merits, or otherwise, of bone dust when fed to fowls. I have lead an article in a Victorian paper to the effect that it makes fowls lay ...

    Article : 91 words
  9. RELIEF WANTED.

    SIR: Can any reader of your journal inform me of any plan to prevent fleas from harboring in the mole-skin pants that bushmen wear? Having to wear the sort myself by way of ...

    Article : 93 words
  10. VEGETABLES FROM THE DOWNS.

    SIR: As a fact, in illustration of how our railways assist agriculture on the Downs, I may state that on Saturday last two cabbages, weighing twenty-two pounds, were forwarded from ...

    Article : 3,875 words
  11. ABOUT SEEDS.

    LONG KEPT SEEDS.—The fact that old seeds yield weak plants is taken advantage of by the florist in producing new varieties. It is said that while the one-year-old seeds of ten weeks ...

    Article : 690 words
  12. SHALL WE ENCOURAGE BOYS TO STAY ON THE FARM.

    BY all means, says the California Farmer, if they want to stay; if they have a taste for farm life and take to it more kindly than to any other pursuit. If a boy takes an honest pride ...

    Article : 702 words
  13. LIQUID MANURE.

    IN Holland, Belgium, and to some extent in England, one of the great elements of success in obtaining heavy and continuous crops of grass and green forage for soiling milch cows, from the ...

    Article : 644 words
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