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  2. THE CULTIVATOR.

    Two months of very dry weather has caused many to dread another long period of drought. There is some ground for supposing that there are series or cycles of dry and wet seasons, and it is feared that we ...

    Article : 4,845 words
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    Cream grows more difficult to churn as distance from the time of calving increases, and the difficulty is enhanced by feeding late-cut or ripe fodder. If early-cut hay and roots are used for winter food, there ...

    Article : 160 words
  4. SCIENCE—INVENTION— CONSTRUCTION.

    THE advantages to be claimed for the improved harrow illustrated in the accompanying engravings are as follows:—It is easily portable, and need not be placed upon a waggon to transport it to and from the field; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 324 words
  5. Jordan's Patent Hand-Power Rock Drill.

    Up to this there have been but two methods of quarrying, one the old slow manual process of handdrilling with drill and jumper, the other the expensive and quick system of power-drilling machinery. To ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 876 words
  6. Agricultural Inventions.

    A newly invented plough clevis consists in a combination, with a sleeve, of a vertical and a horizontal clevis, locked by an eccentric pin. By moving the pin from one to another of the slots in the ...

    Article : 420 words
  7. SELF-BINDING HARVESTERS.

    SIR,—In reference to an article in your issue of 25th instant, signed "T. W. S.," the remarks of your correspondent show so much blas, and are so obviously intended to advertise the "Woods " machine, that in view of his closing sentence of ...

    Article : 324 words
  8. To the Editor.

    SIR,—In 1870, Mr. Butterfield, of Homebush, constructed a circumpolar star map for the latitude of Sydney, which attracted some attention at the Metropolitan Exhibition of that year. It appears, from your journal, that he has ...

    Article : 152 words
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