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  2. CUTTING ASPARAGUS.

    several notes on this subject have lately appeared in “The Garden,” As to which is right, cutting large and small grass alike, or leaving the weakly ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. THE CURRANT VINE.

    The greatest improvement made in the cultivation of the currant vine of late years has been in the methods of trellising. It was very early found that grown ...

    Article : 1,358 words
  4. SKIM MILK FOR MILCH COWS.

    Mr J. Lindstroem. a Swedish farmer, has conducted experiments with a view of utilising skim milk as a food for milch cows, He recently gave an interesting ...

    Article : 207 words
  5. FARM NOTES.

    Closely related to Swedes, rape is a very succulent and nutritive forage plant, and adapted for cultivation on any tolerably rich ami well-drained soil. ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  6. CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    growth, and every care must be taken to give them plenty of moisture, and keep them well shaded from the hot sun. on bright days. Ferns require to have ...

    Article : 603 words
  7. HINTS FOR. PIG BREEDERS.

    It is not always the highest priced sow that is the most profitable pig. The young sow that is to give us the best service, farrowing and suckling for ...

    Article : 514 words
  8. THE FARROW COW’S MILK.

    As a rule there is a large loss of fat in gathering the cream, and also in the churning of the cream from the milk [?] cows that have been a long time in milk ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. EFFECT OF EXCITEMENT.

    Mr W. D. Road the well-known american authority on dairying says that in order to learn the effect of disturbing a cow during milking, he once scratched a heifer ...

    Article : 951 words
  10. THE HOT-WATER CURE.

    As occasion offered, I have experimented with heated water on a variety of plants (writes G. B. Mallett, in the “Gardener’s Chronicle"), and [?] degree of ...

    Article : 559 words
  11. HORTICULTURAL

    In districts where rain has fallen, the surface soil should he gone over with a light cultivator, to keep it loose and prevent the escape of moisture. Vine ...

    Article : 827 words
  12. ROPINESS IN MILK.

    Ropiness is a fault of milk which does not necessarily depend for its cause on the health of the cows. It is said to be caused by any one of several different species of ...

    Article : 295 words
  13. PREPARING BONES FOR FEEDING TO DOGS.

    It is known that meat biscuns are expensive, and for that reason many who enjoy keeping dogs as pets refrain from so doing. The digestive apparatus of ...

    Article : 547 words
  14. PASTEURISED V. RAW SKIM MILK.

    It having been argued that [?] renders skim milk indigestible for calves and that, consequently, they will not thrive upon it, an experiment with ...

    Article : 372 words
  15. GREEN MANURING.

    By green manuring is meant me piougning under of certain green crops grown for that special purpose. This has for many years been recognised as a most ...

    Article : 806 words
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