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  2. SALT FOR WEEVILS.

    Some time ago we heard of a farmer who had stored some corn in salt sacks, and found that, whilst the weevil had badly invaded some other ...

    Article : 179 words
  3. FERTILITY OF PIGS.

    Under good management a brood sow may multiply herself by sixteen to twenty in one year, and repeat this excellent performance for ...

    Article : 281 words
  4. TREATMENT OF COWS.

    The more you pet a cow the better does she milk and behave generally. Eough treatment of any kind which upsets their nerves has a reflex action ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

    Some of the finest farms in the world are worked by New York millionaires. From 17 of these farms the produce annually sold amounts ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. WOMEN'S COLUMN.

    ARE FLIRTS ALWAYS HEARTLESS? Not always is the confirmed flirt as entirely destitute of heart as popular belief credits her with being. ...

    Article : 305 words
  7. THE "PROVERB TEA."

    A correspondent writes: " I wonder have you had a "proverb tea" yet. A well-known hostess gave a very enjoyable one lately. Instead of ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. PREVENTION OF SADDLE GALLS.

    When the horse has returned to the stable after a long ride, he should by Tio means be unsaddled within from half-an-hour to an hour after ...

    Article : 172 words
  9. WINGED PLAGUES.

    Both Cape Colony and Natal are subject to the devastation of locusts or grasshoppers, called by the colonists (Dutch) spring-haan (leaping ...

    Article : 180 words
  10. UNIFORM BUTTER.

    Dr. Connell says: With the increase of the number of dairies it has become if anything more difficult to produce a uniform grade of butter. For with ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. AN ENORMOUS PIG.

    The largest pig that probably was ever reared was recently slaughtered in New York. The animal was a Jersey red boar, two and a-half ...

    Article : 280 words
  12. TAM-O'-SHANTER TEAS.

    Now that everyone is working comforts for our soldiers abroad, tam-o'shanter teas are all the rage. So many people are in mourning or in ...

    Article : 87 words
  13. A NEW SOCIETY CRAZE.

    Last year an idea was originated which promises this season to take much wider scope. Certain very popular members of society, says ...

    Article : 473 words
  14. The Sugar Mills Debt to the State.

    The statement of payments in arrears to local bodies, published in the Gazette, contains the arrears due by Central Mills Companies formed ...

    Article : 408 words
  15. Education and Crime.

    The following figures which have just been collected by the National Union of Teachers in England, show that during the ten years before the ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. THE NEW LAND ACT.

    In reference to the operations of the 1899 Land Act, "Landholder" (Armidale) writes: In this district the new system of discriminating ...

    Article : 282 words
  17. CHICKENS AND SKIM MILK.

    With the purpose of studying the effect of skim milk diet on young growing chickens, an experiment was conducted at one of the American ...

    Article : 250 words
  18. A NEW BEEP ANIMAL.

    Writing to the editor pf " The Producer and Exporter," Mr. C. A. Benbow, of College-street, Sydney, says: In our Museum in College-st. ...

    Article : 337 words
  19. Women as Aldermen.

    A correspondent writes: The Commons, to their own great surprise, have adopted, by a large majority, the second reading of a bill for ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. TO CONCRETE A MILKING YARD.

    A correspondent wishes to put a concrete floor into a milking yard and shed 50 feet long by 30 feet wide, and asks for particulars of the work ...

    Article : 178 words
  21. QUALITY OF BUTTER.

    The " Queenslander " writes:—The position now stands thus:—Either the system of accepting cream in small quantities must be wholly ...

    Article : 265 words
  22. Painless Horse-branding.

    Mr. Charles Brown, of New Plymouth (N.Z.) supplies the following suggestive information:—I saw last month an enquiry for a painless way ...

    Article : 201 words
  23. One Hundred Miles an Hour.

    The House of Commons has thrown out the Manchester and Liverpool Express Railway Bill. The committee, however, did not condemn the ...

    Article : 170 words
  24. THE THIN GIRL'S TEMPER.

    No thin woman can afford to lose her temper. " Nothing," says a good authority, " will make you so angular or give your face such an undesirable ...

    Article : 153 words
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    FATTLDING'S test for the purity of EUCALYPTUS OIL has been adopted in the British Pharmacopoeia and all standard works on the subject. Sydney Office, 16 O'Connell-st.—4 ...

    Article : 183 words
  26. TO PRESERVE EGGS.

    One gallon of boiling water to be poured on ½lb of quicklime. When cold, add 2oz of cream of tartar and 2oz of common salt. Stir for a few ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 78 words
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    BICYCLES.—H. HARDING bas been appointed agent for BENNETT and WOOD, of Sydney. Rovers, Rayleighs, Humbera and Speedwells kept in stock. Also tyres, bike ...

    Article : 33 words
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