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  2. FOR THE MAN UPON THE LAND.

    Methods of picking and handling a crop of tomatoes depends upon the purpose for which it is grown. If intended for canning or for the local market, the fruit ...

    Article : 183 words
  3. DEVONSHIRE CREAM.

    Your lady readers (says the London correspondent of the New York "Country Gentleman") will like to hear of a quick method of producing "Devonshire Cream," ...

    Article : 187 words
  4. CONVENIENT BARN DOOR FASTENER.

    Cattle and horses can he excluded from a barn while pigs calves or sheep are admitted by using the contrivance shown in the accompanying cut. A is a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 154 words
  5. CANNING VEGETABLES.

    In a few week's time all kinds of beans will be so abundant that prices will come down with a slump. Why not try canning ? ...

    Article : 213 words
  6. HONE-MADE BARB WIRE STRETCHER.

    Use a piece of hard wood 4 feet long, 3 inches wide, and not less than 1incn thick. Cut a notch in one end, as shown in the accompanying illustration, about ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 121 words
  7. MAKING A FLOAT VALVE.

    A float valve can be made without very much trouble by connecting a hollow air- Light ball or can to the end of a rod welted to a spigot as shown in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 81 words
  8. BOX FOR THE EXTRACTION OF HONEY.

    An illustration submitted by a writer for "Gleanings in Bee Culture" shows a comb-box on a wheelbarrow which makes a convenient arangement for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  9. THE BEST DEPTH FOR PLANTING POTATOES.

    In 1905 two teats were made by the University of Nebraska to test the relative advantage of different depths of planting potatoes. Depths ranging from 1 to 5 ...

    Article : 387 words
  10. OUR FRIEND THE TOAD.

    This useful little denizen of our garden has been considered worthy of being made the subject of a bulletin by the United States department of agriculture, which ...

    Article : 439 words
  11. VALUE OF SURFACE SOIL.

    The value of top soil as compared with subsoil is not understood as it ought to be. If the great contrast between the two was sufficiently impressed on the ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. A SPRAY PUMP FOR THE GARDEN.

    The spray pump illustrated in the accompanying cut is made as follows : A is a piece of wooden pump sock, 3? feet long. B is a broom handle with jacking ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 169 words
  13. HARVESTER V. STRIPPER.

    In a short paper read by Mr. J. C. Pearce at a meeting the other day of the Wepowie branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, he contended that the ...

    Article : 386 words
  14. A PRACTICAL GATE HOLDER.

    A correspondent of the "Prairie Farmer" sends to that paper a diagram of a gate holder that he considers a very useful de for farmers to have in use where ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 182 words
  15. MOVEMENT OF WATER IN THE SOIL.

    Professor Von Sellhorst in Gottingen has published in a German agricultural paper some interesting observations of the relative evaporation and drainage of water ...

    Article : 169 words
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