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  2. THE ENSILAGE STACK.

    When the dairy farmer decides to make an ensilage stack he should select a level site and set out the stack square. rather than oblong, so as to ...

    Article : 748 words
  3. THE LUCERNE-SOWING SEASON.

    "Every wheatgrower should have lucerne on his farm if he has a suitable piece of laud at all," said a well-known farmer not lnog ago; but in ...

    Article : 1,475 words
  4. HUMUS! WHAT IS IT?

    To many this article may seem superfluous, but we think it seasonable to fully explain its meaning and its value to plant life. ...

    Article : 1,380 words
  5. POULTRY FEEDING—VARIOUS METHODS.

    The question of feeding is on all fours with that of housing; there are many different methods and systems, all of which have their ardent ...

    Article : 449 words
  6. WOMEN'S INTERESTS.

    In London hat shapes are smaller and more compact than they have been. But these differences do not at all detract ...

    Article : 1,463 words
  7. LIQUID MANURING.

    "About three years ago," a correspondent, writes us (the N .Z. Dairyman), "we resolved to test the practical working of a plan suggested by ...

    Article : 1,124 words
  8. MELBOURNE LETTER

    The attitude of the public him towards motorists was indicted by the demonstration of the crowd at Princes Bridge the other afternoon when ...

    Article : 1,371 words
  9. LUCERNE AS A FERTILISER.

    Some interesting evidence with regard —to the fertilising influence upon the soil of lucerne, owing to the capacity of that plant for absorbing free ...

    Article : 558 words
  10. ENSILAGE MAKING THE BEST WEED-KILLER.

    Of all the vegetation pests that are antagonistic to profitable gram growing, it is almost invariably agreed that wild oats is the very worst. "Almost" ...

    Article : 311 words
  11. PIG-KILLING ON THE FARM.

    It is remarkable, "Pig Breeder" writes, how few farmers kill and dress the pigs they fatten. Fat pigs are taken alive to the saleyards; where two ...

    Article : 652 words
  12. CLIP THE UDDER.

    It is not uncommon among dairy cows to find the udder covered with a dense growth of long air, which, although it may be of some protection ...

    Article : 313 words
  13. FEEDING WHEY TO YOUNG STOCK.

    "New York Produce Review" has been asking its readers to give their experience of feeding whey to young stock. Here are three of the replies ...

    Article : 506 words
  14. THE WEIGHT OF A HAYSTACK.

    In ascertaining the number of tons of hay in a stack, many farmers rely upon mere guesswork, but something near the approximate weight may be ...

    Article : 308 words
  15. PRESERVING BUTTER.

    A contributor to "Hoard's Dairyman" gives the following recipe for preserving butter, which, he says, has no equal or superior :—Churn and then ...

    Article : 329 words
  16. THE SHEARING RECORD.

    "Yorkshire" asks who holds the record for hand-shearing in Australia, and who the machine record, also what their best daily tallies are and how ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. PROFIT IN PIGS.

    Mr. B. P. Galvin, Wybong, N.S.W., has a sow which farrowed a litter of eleven five months ago. They all lived, and Mr. Galvin recently sold nine ...

    Article : 46 words
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