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  2. Advertising

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  3. DAIRY AND FARM.

    DURING a trip through portions of Ontario this summer with the travelling dairy, I was especially struck with the lack of knowledge among the farmers as to what their individual cows ...

    Article : 602 words
  4. The Butter Export Trade.

    A VICTORIAN paper writes: "News received by last mail indicates that the past season's shipments of butter to England have been the most successful on the whole of any since the trade ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. A New Forage Plant.

    FROM its Cressy correspondent the Tasmanian learns that a new cattle fodder (hop clover) has recently been introduced to that district from the North-West Coast, where it is said to grow ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. Lumpy Jaw.

    ACCORDING to Dr. Horne, there is nothing to be done when one is sure an animal has the lumpy jaw, or actinomycosis, but to kill and burn, or bury very deep—stamp it out as they ...

    Article : 159 words
  7. Is Soil Inexhaust[?]ble.

    THE American Agriculturist practically says no. This is how it arrives at this conclusion:— "One foot in depth of a fairly good agricultural soil contains 4000 pounds of ophosphoric acid, ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. Good Butter.

    SPEAKING of good butter an English paper says: "There are five things to aim at in making butter for the best market. These are uniformity in color, in texture, in salting, in packing, and ...

    Article : 47 words
  9. The Sagging Gate.

    A FARMER has allowed the gate which enters one of his fields to daily, settle and sag, so that some labor is required to open and shut it. Year after year he has descended from his farm ...

    Article : 222 words
  10. Why Wild Horses are Tough.

    "REST and fat are the greatest enemies of the horse," is a saying of the Arabs, and if every horse owner would embody its truth in his practice, there would be little need to write anything ...

    Article : 216 words
  11. Points of Cows that Pay.

    PROFESSOR ROBERTSON, Canadian dairy expert, specifies five points for judging a cow that will prove profitable instead of being that detriment to many herds—a "[?]re boarder." But ...

    Article : 273 words
  12. Influence of the Moon.

    THE irrational and absurd influences some ascribe to the moon have their origin in ignorance and folly; the increase or diminishing of her shaded part has no possible relation to pigs, ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. A Bonanza in Nuts.

    THE large returns from individual trees and immense profits from established orchards, have stimulated much interest in growing the soft shelled Texas pecan, which is equal in quality to ...

    Article : 509 words
  14. A Funny Game.

    A FEW friends met the other night in a Newtown store to spend a jovial evening, but as they were all t[?]totallers and none of them drank, anything stronger than Clement's Tonic, drunkenness was out ...

    Article : 284 words
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