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  2. The Art of Fruit Preserving.—II.

    TAKE as much brown sugar as you wish to clarify (say 50lb) and put it into a pan that will contain one-third more than the required quantity. Pour in about 20 pints of water, first ...

    Article : 2,059 words
  3. Station, Farm, and Garden.

    AT the commencement of another planting season, it is a simple matter of duty on our part to make known the fact that the last fruit season has been the most trying ever encountered ...

    Article : 777 words
  4. Stock, Station, and Produce Reports.

    Messrs. FENWICK AND SCOTT'S report under date of May 7:— Wool.—During the past fortnight the transactions in wool have been on the most limited ...

    Article : 1,567 words
  5. The Wool Supply.

    THE London Times of February 18 has the following on the supply of wool:—Our supply of wool from abroad in the year 1874 reached nearly 339 million pounds. This was sheep and lambs' ...

    Article : 718 words
  6. Correspondents' Conference.

    INFORMATION contributed, selected, and asked for-We specially invite contributions to, and observations concerning, the contents of this department. ...

    Article : 20 words
  7. PRIME STOCK FROM ENGLAND.

    WILL you or any of your correspondents kindly answer the following queries? I am thinking of shortly coming to your rising colony, and should be willing to bring with me ...

    Article : 188 words
  8. POTATO GRUBS AND BUGS.

    IN the packet enclosed you will find specimens of the ladybird in three stages (I am sorry I could not find any eggs) that is proving very destructive to the potatoes in several places in this ...

    Article : 226 words
  9. Cotton Prospects.

    FORTUNATELY, as it happens, the cotton crop of Queensland is a low one. It is low in quantity, and the prices that can be paid for it are not such as are likely to induce growers to ...

    Article : 397 words
  10. WHITEWASH FOR OUTSIDE WORK.

    A WHITEWASH that will stand: Take half a bushel of good lime (unslaked)—Rockharapton or Warwick line—and slack it with boiling water, covering it during the process to keep in ...

    Article : 255 words
  11. Draining Machinery.

    THE following notice appears in the Otago Provincial Gazette:—"The Provincial Council of Otago, being desirous of stimulating invention and securing the introduction of labor-saving ...

    Article : 820 words
  12. SELECTOR'S QUESTIONS FROM THE HERBERT.

    UNDER date March 27, in reference to questions as to whether a selector (Act of '68) must reside upon his land, and as upon this all settlement and security rests, I shall feel obliged by ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. A Queensland Farmer in England.

    WINTER has set in again. It began to snow on the 19th; on Sunday it was very cold; yesterday I left Maddle for London, but got the carriage bogged in snow. I got out; it was up ...

    Article : 661 words
  14. On the Influence of Lime on Plants and Animals.

    2. That animals feeding on herbage grown on soils deficient in lime are liable to be infested with internal worms and diseases of a fungoid character; and that animals feeding on plants ...

    Article : 1,603 words
  15. BRANDING UNDER THE ACT.

    I SEE an article in your issue of the 1st inst.[?] headed as above, and signed " P.C.," relative to a charge brought by the Rockhampton District Inspector against a Mr. Atherton, for illegally ...

    Article : 531 words
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