Farm and Garden. Vegetable Products
Plants are endowed with the power of assimitating and combining the various substances which are compounded during their growth, and forming these into compounds…
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Farming & the land, 1890
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Farm and Garden
There are two important points—to keep the water pure and to cut off the ends of the stems as they [?]arden. The water may be kept pure by frequent change, but it is easier…
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The farmers of this district have often been blamed for want of enterprise, and although upon the first glance it may appear a just complaint against them,…
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This is hardy annual plant, supposed to have come originally from Persia and the island of Cyprus, in both of which it is native. This plant produces a number of…
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Against mildew in the grape vines the French Agricu[?]tural Department has recommended the employment of the salts of copper M. Tisserand, Director of Agriculture,…
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On Thursday last an important meeting of towns people was held, for the purpose of showing what the feeling is with reference to the demand about to be made upon the Government for compensation…
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From two feet to thirty inches is a good distance at which to plant tomatoes apart when grown against wells and fenees, and they should have a similar space…
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Some farmers ignore profits in keeping hens. They want simply enough, to supply [?]heir. table with eggs and broilers. [?]thers aim for profit as well. Market po[?]ltry is…
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The fast [?] has the fallest [?] Cleanliness gods before profit in the dairy The man that figures closely never regrets that he began winter feeding early…
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The great sensation [?] [?] Fre[?]ig nerous is the new chemical manage discovered by M. Ville, which he says is not only an almost mi[?]calous reco[?] of the old vines,…
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Those who follow market gardening on a large scale get their plants for their earliest crops of cabbages, cauliflowers, and lettuce by sowing the seeds in the fall and when…
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A safe and effective operation for the[?] cure of lameness in horsen caused by side bones is based on the theory that such lameness is caused by the squeezing of some of the…
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[?] [?] meeting trust than either green or dried to chips. There [?] [?] [?] he has been [?] and [?] [?] that is [?] [?]…
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If a branch of a vine is cut asunder early in the spring before the leaves have begun to expand a clear and colourless fluid, which gardeners denominate the tears of the vine,…
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Keep all decayed flowers picked off, and never allow any of them to form seed, cuttings of all kinds of bedding out plants root freely,and if struck thus early they,…
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A dog's dinner should consist of dog-biscuits and meal wetted and worked up with any remains of broth or soup, or elae with water. As a rule, he should be £e1 once a…
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J. R Sears recently informed the Vacaville Reporter how. he cured the gum disease on this peaeh and cherry trees. He said: About six years ago, when I first, took…
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On Tuesday last two samples of wheat grown on his property at Mulgrave, were brought to our office by Mr. G. S. Yeo. Some time ago he applied to the Department of Agriculture for…
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What is a good cow? is a[?]question that many owners of cows cannot 'answer, because there is no standard. Every one has his own, and one person may recommnend a…
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Barley has been grown heretofore solely for malting for the brewers; and its feeding qualities have been wholly ignored. Yet some years ago this grain was the common…
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