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  3. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. NOTES FOR THE MAN ON THE, LAND.

    Farmers, when deciding to saw a new variety of wheat, would make themiseives acquainted with its early or late maturing capacty. The Acting Wheat. ...

    Article : 255 words
  4. ARTICHOKES AS PIG-FEED.

    The Jerusalem artichoke, makes a splendid pig-feed. It will grow well on poor soil; but if the soil is wet, the tubers'will rot. It will thrive and produce ...

    Article : 212 words
  5. POTATOES AS PIG-FEED.

    Sweet potatoes make an excellent pigfeed. They grow fairly well at Hawkesbury College: but the home of these tubers is in the Northern Rivers districts ...

    Article : 136 words
  6. MAIZE YIELDS.

    The best yield of maize obtained this season,'so far, at the Grafton State Farm was 317 bushels from acres, no manure being used. The variety which produced ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. THE PIG FOR PROFIT.

    Pig-raining, either for pork or ham and bacon production, should be one of the most profitable sections of the mixed farm. Much; material thnt would otherwise go to ...

    Article : 162 words
  8. HOUSING THE PIGS.

    In profitable pin-farming it is essential that the animals be well housed. pigs like shelter, either from the heat of summer or the cold of winter. It is not necessary to ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. THE LARGE BLACH.

    The Large Plack is a pig that is good for cross-breeding: but the use of this animal as a pure breed is not. advised for pork purposes. Crossed with a Berkshire ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. FOR PORK.

    A cross between the middle York boar and Berkshire sow, is recomuended where breeding for pork is best suited for the marketing conditions. This pig matures ...

    Article : 95 words
  11. CONSIDER THIS.

    Owing to neglect in growing winter feed, when milk is scarce, the farmer cannot maintain any appreciable number of pigs. The demade for store pigs at the ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. HAM AND RACON FIGS.

    Mr. E. J. Shellon, in charge of the.pigraising department at the Mawkesbury College, advises that the Tamworth bour and Berkshire sow is the best cross for ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. COLLECTING THE CENSUS.

    Householders in this State have recently been busily employed in compiling various interesting information in connection with the taking of the Census by the Federal ...

    Article : 237 words
  14. FEEDING PIGS.

    The total cost of producing pork at the Hawkcsbury College is from l½d. to 2d. per 1b. There is certainly a large amount refuse provided by the kitchens, where ...

    Article : 200 words
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