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  2. AGRICULTURAL COLUMN.

    There is a very common idea amongst the ordinary class of farmers, says a writer, that stimulating manures have an exhausting effect on the soil. This, no doubt, arises from the ...

    Article : 232 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 3,294 words
  4. Ventilation for Fruit Rooms.

    A writer in the "Garden" makes the following remarks upon this subject:— "My experience of fruit rooms is that they are too dry and over ventilated, for I do not think that a ...

    Article : 175 words
  5. Nature's Way of Manuring.

    In many things man improves upon nature. It is one of the special characterists that distinguish him from brute creation, that better than they he can use natural forces and bend them to ...

    Article : 496 words
  6. Cleanliness in Pig Breeding.

    Pigs should always be kept clean and wholesome. It is not their nature to wallow in filth, but in mud and mire more from a cleanly than a dirty propensity. It is to rid themselves of ...

    Article : 569 words
  7. Advice to Farmers' Wives

    Here is some good advice to the wives of farmers, clipped from an exchange paper:— Too many farmers' wives are wearing out under the strain of mind and body. They say ...

    Article : 356 words
  8. How to Dry Plant Specimens.

    The "Field Naturalist" gives the following advice upon this subject:— "The very ancient adage that if a thing be worth doing at all it is worth doing well, applies to the preservation of ...

    Article : 407 words
  9. Poultry Yard Scratchings.

    Keep the supply of bone meal up. Machines are used in France for cramming poultry. Turkeys are very good sitters, but poor ...

    Article : 136 words
  10. Chemical Terms.

    The following explanations of common terms used in chemical tables of foods may help farmers to more thoroughly understand the subject:— ...

    Article : 263 words
  11. Hints for Home and Farm.

    A cow that has to get her living by gnawing the parched pasture under a burning sun, without other feed, is not likely to make a great show at thee pail. ...

    Article : 474 words
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