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  2. DRAINAGE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.-IV.

    IT is unnecessary to further consider the value of drainage to arable land. Its benefits are admitted upon all sides, and we but brought up the various points to show their value in ...

    Article : 1,836 words
  3. WORKING THE CANE CROP IN THE MARY DISTRICT.

    CANE is generally planted here as early as possible in the spring, in July and August. At that time laborers are plentiful, and the cost of holing is much less than in later months. The ...

    Article : 1,468 words
  4. Station, Farm, & Garden.

    THIS is a special department of the QUEENSLANDER, and contributions are invited from all quarters upon Stock and Station Affairs, the Management of Cattle, general Planting, Farming, and Gardening pursuits. ...

    Article : 1,436 words
  5. THE OUTSIDE SQUATTERS.

    WHEN this colony started on its hopeful career, a large number of youthful, enterprising, and adventurous spirits—young men in whose breasts the courageous hope of improving their ...

    Article : 588 words
  6. The Honey Bee.

    SOME bee-keepers have recommended that high trees are suitable for the vicinity of hives. But I find that high trees are not advisable; they form an evil of greater magnitude than ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. Notes and Queries.

    SIR—In the interest of orange growers, I would beg to solicit through your colums, an expression of opinion as to the cause or prevention of a disease that is devastating some of the ...

    Article : 280 words
  8. QUEENSLAND ARROWROOT.

    THE cultivation and manufacture of arrowroot is becoming an important affair in this country. The export of the article has gone on increasing for the last five or six years. In 1863 ...

    Article : 1,357 words
  9. WHAT THE BEES TEACH US.

    "Did any one ever sufficiently admire the entire elegance of the habits and pursuits of bees? their extraction of nothing but the quintessence of flowers; their preference of those that have ...

    Article : 1,285 words
  10. CURE FOR SORE THROAT.

    SIR,—I see "Humanity" refers in your paper to a cure for dipcheria which appeared in the Australasian some time ago. I have the same by me, and I give it, as it may be of use ...

    Article : 375 words
  11. LAND SELECTIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 701 words
  12. LIME, SOAP, ETC.

    SIR,—I noticed in your journal a short time since several receipts for making soap, &c., and in almost all of them lime appeared to bo necessary. Now where we are lime is a curiosity. Can ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. SUGAR MACHINERY WANTED.

    SIR,—In consequence of an article appearing in the Maitland Mercury, copied from your issue of the 24th June, headed "Sugar Making Machinery for the Colonies," I have been ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. TANNING KANGAROO AND OTHER: SKINS.

    SIR,—Answers to the following will greatly oblige:— 1. What is the general method adopted in tanning kangaroo and calf skins? ...

    Article : 477 words
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