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  2. THE LAND AND ITS CULTURE

    The fattening [?] spends about 77 per cent, of the food digested for heat and work, the sheep 74, and the pig 57. The pig is thus the most economical meat ...

    Article : 2,317 words
  3. THE EFFECT OF SLEEP UPON PLANTS

    One of the most interesting chapters in the romance of plant life is that which tells us how plants go to sleep. Most of us have noticed how the trefoils fold their ...

    Article : 1,436 words
  4. THE FERTILITY OF HEN EGGS.

    [?] the pen of the male bird will the eggs laid by the bens prove fertile ? The subject was essentially one for experiment, and the ...

    Article : 193 words
  5. THOROUGHBREDS.

    That an ounce of blood is batter than a pound of bone is generally agreed by breeders of horses, and by those who use horses. For that reason the breeding of ...

    Article : 1,620 words
  6. CARE OF CALVES.

    Take a little better care of those humped-up discouraged-looking young calves that stand shivering in the yard all day. The first winter is the cheapest and easiest time ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. TROPICAL AGRICULTURE.

    In view of the interest being taken in the North-West exhibition in Barrack-street, it is opportune to refer to the possibilities of tropical agriculture in the North. In an ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  8. A RECORD COW.

    News comes to hand that all the milk and butter fat records have been broken by the British Friesian cow, Kirkhill Flo III. This fine cow, which is the property ...

    Article : 188 words
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    APPLES AT BRIDGETOWN. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. A FARMERS' STATE.

    The prosperity of Denmark is a comparatively recent growth. As a European Power she was ruined by the Napoleonic-wars. She spent some 50 years in a more ...

    Article : 807 words
  11. POTATO BREEDING IN UTAH, U.S.A.

    Through a system of potato selection, whereby all strains were eliminated whose progeny for three to live years did not give yields of standard excellence, it has been ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. SUNFLOWER SILAGE.

    [?] vegetation in W.A. is the capacity to grow and thrive under dry soil conditions. Many plants of the composite order are notably ...

    Article : 350 words
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  14. POTASH MANURES.

    Crops form the great bulk of their substances from the carbonic held gas which is present in air. There is about three parts of carbonic acid gas to 10,000 of air, the ...

    Article : 554 words
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