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  2. THE SOIL

    Mr. R. T. Baker, Curator of the Sydney Technological Museum, and Mr. C. T. Burfitt, secretary of the Australian Historical Society, are at loggerheads on the question of whether the ...

    Article : 1,232 words
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  4. GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

    L.M.C.--Your strawberry plants have no intention of doing more than the flowering. They are a non-staminate sort. Your best plan is to turn out every second row, and make ready for planting out one of the ...

    Article : 157 words
  5. POULTRY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 words
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    Advertising : 484 words
  7. SETTLEMENT IN 1799.

    Had the first settlement in Australia been made, as originally contemplated, at Botany Bay, no doubt it would have meant a great difference to the town and district of ...

    Article : 318 words
  8. DAHLIAS.

    Up to date dahilas have been quite unsatisfactory. Those who planted very early have but poor quality flowers, while many of the growers who hold their stocks over until the beginning ...

    Article : 1,169 words
  9. OUR LAYING COMPETITIONS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 788 words
  10. GENERAL NOTES.

    The week's weather conditions have been warm to hot and dry. Light to moderate rain fell over the southern half of the State, mostly west from the highland, the principal records ...

    Article : 283 words
  11. BULLS FOR DAIRY FARMERS.

    In New South Wales there is a demand for the State to import bulls for dairy farmers, in Denmark the Government has another way of aiding the self-reliant farmer. ...

    Article : 419 words
  12. PLEURO QUARANTINE CANCELLED.

    A notification appears in this week s "Gazette" that the quarantine of portion of the Singleton P.P. district in consequence of the outbreak of pleuro has been cancelled as from ...

    Article : 41 words
  13. CROWN LANDS SETTLEMENT.

    The departmental statement of lands applied for under the Crown Lands Acts and Closer Settlement Acts during the week ended December 16 shows that 12 new settlers took up a ...

    Article : 150 words
  14. SUMMER AND GREEN FEED.

    Lack of green feed, heat, and moulting are causing the usual midsummer curtailment of the egg yield. Some people reckon their fowls will do as well without green feed as with it. ...

    Article : 747 words
  15. CURRENT NEWS.

    BELLINGEN, Friday.--The rabbit pest is spreading downwards form the Dorrigo. Rabbits are to be met with on the Dorrigo cutting, and at Guy Fawkes they are plentiful. ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. DRY FARMING SUCCESSES.

    Mr. Trefle is receiving, fresh evidences of the value of the farmers' experiment plots each day. Yesterday he said that from the reports being received regarding the harvesting of these ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. THE BOTANIC GARDENS.

    Mr. J. H. Maiden, director of the Botanic Gardens, writes:--With the four days' continues holiday and trouble with the water supply during the last week or two, those in charge of the gardens are having an anxious ...

    Article : 354 words
  18. POTATO-DIGGING MACHINES.

    The potato-digger imported from England by the Department of Agriculture has had a trial under very favorable conditions, but it has yet to demonstrate that it can be recommended with ...

    Article : 183 words
  19. BUTTER GRADING IN NEW ZEALAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The Department of Agriculture has prepared a return showing the quantity and grade of butters examined by the grading officers for the year 1911, such ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. HUNTER RIVER WINE INDUSTRY.

    POKOLBIN, Friday.--Mr. J. M. Macdonald's well-known Ben Ear vineyards and distillery has just changed hands, purchasers being Lindeman. Ltd., of Sydney. Mr. Macdonald ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. DEMONSTRATION FARMS.

    Among several avenues of expansion in the practical educational work of the department during the coming year, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. J. L. Trefie, has decided to go ...

    Article : 747 words
  22. PHYSICKING FRUIT TREES.

    The system of plugging apple trees with Sulphur as a means of ridding, them of the woolly aphis pest has had considerable trial in this State, and numbers of growers report ...

    Article : 206 words
  23. THE CITY ORGAN RECITALS.

    Sir,--Your correspondent, "Abinget," writing in today's "Daily Telegraph" in defence of the city organist, has, I think, overshot the mark. His reference to "that section of the public whoso taste in music is already ...

    Article : 436 words
  24. ON SUCCESS.

    Quickness of decision and pertinacity are important qualities necessary to success in life, but, always, there must be opportunity. An American millionaire attributed his start in ...

    Article : 243 words
  25. NOTES.

    The Australasian pens in the Vancouver laying competition made a good start, though the general returns were low, and 22 pens out of 39 did not lay in the first month. In the ...

    Article : 995 words
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  27. TOBACCO-GROWING IN THE EMPIRE.

    A recently-published White paper, referring to tobacco-growing in the British Empire, showed that the annual output of the Dominion of Canada was about 10,000,000lb. The ...

    Article : 188 words
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