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  2. The Welfleet Mystery

    The appearance of Herbert Knight caused an indescribable scene. The crowd were eager to learn how it had all come about, and having effervesced ...

    Article : 4,390 words
  3. Blending Artificial Manures.

    Perhaps the subject which is least understood with regard to manures is that of mixing them. That much loss occurs from injudicious mixtures may be safely ...

    Article : 431 words
  4. The Horse.

    In feeding working horses on the farm some vegetable food is desirable for all horses, especially in winter. Carrots stand first on the list. It will be found ...

    Article : 169 words
  5. THE DAIRY.

    Unless you keep some record, you cannot tell within 1,0001b., or even more, how much milk any cow gives. For instance, one cow in a herd gave 41¾lb. ...

    Article : 153 words
  6. GORGONZOLA CHEESE.

    The milk is coagulated warm and fresh directly after milking, so that it is thick in ten to twenty minutes. Now the curd is slightly broken up and left alone until ...

    Article : 363 words
  7. TEMPERATURE IN THE DAIRY.

    Temperature in one of the most important things in the management of the dairy. By neglect one meets with the greatest difficulties. In the winter these ...

    Article : 349 words
  8. THE YOUNG COLT.

    Handling a young colt cannot commence too early. He should be taught two things before he is a day old, that he has a master and that he has nothing ...

    Article : 82 words
  9. MASH FOR HORSES.

    A mash composed of two quarts of oats, one quart of bran and half a pint of linseed meal is good for horses. If the horses are to secure the greatest amount ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. FORECASTING THE FUTURE IN FOALS.

    The ability to tell how a colt may be expected to turn out is a quality much envied by horsemen. With some men such a possession is almost intuitive; ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. Charcoal for Sick Animals.

    An authority on diseases in animals says that in nine cases out of ten when an animal is sick the digestion is wrong, and that charcoal is the most efficient and rapid ...

    Article : 226 words
  12. CARELESS USE OF FIREARMS.

    Accidents caused by the careless use of firearms seem to become more and more frequent. Strenuous appeals have been made to exercise more than ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. Beef Producing Foods.

    Recently experiments have been made with the object of determining cost of producing beef and the relative values of foods used in its production. There were ...

    Article : 473 words
  14. THE CHEMISTRY OF MILK AND BUTTER.

    Butter-fat consists of the three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, all of which can be obtained from the air by plants in unlimited quantity in the form ...

    Article : 190 words
  15. The Piggery.

    Always keep a dish of dry wood ashes accessible, salt them frequently, and about every ten days give in their slop one-half teaspoonful of spirits ...

    Article : 51 words
  16. A HARD KNOT.

    It is a mistake to undertake too much —to force our tired bodies to a few more hours of labour when nature tells us we have done enough. ...

    Article : 154 words
  17. WIRE FENCES.

    The posts for a wire fence should be driven in the spring, as soon as the frost is out of the ground. It will make a better fence if the wire is not put on ...

    Article : 259 words
  18. PIG-EATING SOWS.

    One of the safest preventives against the highly objectionable habit possessed by some sows of eating their young is to keep the bowels of the animals rather ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. DAIRYING IN ITALY.

    Dairymen in Italy are improving their facilities for making butter to such an extent as to become formidable rivals to the Dutch in the export trade with India, ...

    Article : 46 words
  20. MAKING CHESHIRE CHEESE.

    Cheshire cheese, like the Cheddar, is made only once a day. The evening's milk is placed, not more than 6in. or 7in. deep, in tin vessels to cool during the ...

    Article : 669 words
  21. HOW TO BREED PIGS SUCCESSFULLY.

    Too many ought not to be kept in a limited space, and the conditions should be favourable—that is, the styes should I be so situated that they are sheltered ...

    Article : 502 words
  22. ARTESTAN BORES.

    A better example of the beneficial results of artesian bores (the Goodooga correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" writes) could not be shown ...

    Article : 170 words
  23. FARMERS AND ADVERTISING.

    There is hardly a class of people that produce even a tenth part as much as farmers, that advertise so little as they. Of the millions of pounds of farm ...

    Article : 136 words
  24. Poisoned Wounds.

    The skin and subcutaneous tissues are sometimes destroyed by the action of poisonous substances, such as the mineral or other acids. These substances are ...

    Article : 263 words
  25. WORKING AND WORRYING.

    More than one farmer is worrying more than he is working. Work is good for a farmer if he is reasonable about it; but worrying is the hardest ...

    Article : 249 words
  26. SOWING INFERIOR SEED.

    Although we may sow very few oats, we should use great care as to seed, in order to have a good yield and fine quality. Seed wheat should be graded, ...

    Article : 143 words
  27. KEEP ACCOUNT.

    Greater satisfaction with the business would ensue on many farms if a careful inventory were made at once of all property owned and accounts due. It is ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. QUEEN MUFFIMS.

    milk, ¾ of a cupful of yeast, 2 tablespoonfuls oat sugar, 1 tablespoonful of lard, 1 teaspoonful of salt, and flour to make a ...

    Article : 50 words
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