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  2. Salt in Agriculture.

    Common salt (chloride of sodium) has been employed in agriculture as a manure with varying decrees of success, or failure, commensurate with the intelligence or otherwise with which it has been applied. ...

    Article : 1,243 words
  3. How to Apply Guano.

    It is not posaible to lay down precise rules as to the best periods and modes of application, because these depend so much npon the special kind of manure selected, the prevailing weather, nature of the soil, ...

    Article : 588 words
  4. Animal Food for Chicks.

    At this season growing chicks require animal food to build up a good frame of bone and muscle, and the more exercise they get the more of this food will they find. Chickens can find much by being allowed the ...

    Article : 437 words
  5. Sherwood Fowls.

    This new breed of fowls is so called from a Virginia plantation, where they originated from crosses first made same 40 years ago. About 1850 there were introduced among the stock some pure White Games ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 317 words
  6. Economy of Wood Ashes.

    A great deal of potash is exhausted from the soil by garden vegetables, and even in land natura[?]ly rich in this subs[?]nce it is apt to set into insoluble and unavailable forms for use by growing crops. In gardens ...

    Article : 249 words
  7. Nitrate of Soda.

    It is recommended that the nitrate of soda be sown on the garden broadcast at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. For beets it is recommended to use a fertiliser attachment if the beets be drilled. It may, however, ...

    Article : 146 words
  8. THE GRAZIER.

    By the steamship Durham, from London, arrived a shipment of Norfolk red-polled cattle, which was selected and purchased by Mr. George M'Culloch, of Mount Gipps (N.S.W.), for Mr. P. Charley, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,042 words
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