Farm and Garden
Where, asks the Farmer's Review, is the advantage of skimming over forty acres to raise 1000 bushels of corn, while the same labor, the same manure, half the fencing and half…
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Farming & the land, 1890
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Farm and Garden
Rapid-growing trees should be pruned severely. Set all small fruit in straight rows so as to cultivate with a horse and cultivator…
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An early and always acceptable crop is spring radishes. These may be sown every two or three weeks, and a fine succession obtained. Only a small space need be…
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A NUMEROUS and representative meeting of the Farmers' Union was held in the Council room on Saturday afternoon, the President being in the chair…
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If you set duck-eggs under hens, set them on the ground. If frost is entirely out and the weather settled into spring, you can place a cage over the hen, and arrange things…
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AT the recent meeting of the Farmers' Union, an account of which appeared in our last issue, the question of the advisability of building a sale-room for the sale of local…
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Plants are endowed with the power of assimilating and combining the various substances which are compounded during their growth, and forming these into compounds…
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ON Saturday afternoon a committee meeting was held in the Town Hall. There were present--Dr. Wrigley (chair), and Messrs. Legh, Martin Winter, Osborne, Noble, Veness, Carvall, O'Hara,…
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There are two important points --to keep the water pure and to cut off the ends of the stems as they harden. The water may be kept pure by frequent change, but it is easier…
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That portion of the flour of wheat which remains insoluble after the application of water in making starch is ealie[?] gluten. It is of a dull white or brownish colour, tough,…
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This is a hardy annual plant, supposed to have come originally from Persia and the is and the island Cyprus, in both of which it is native. This plant produces a number of…
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THE farm in America is looked upon more as a home than a mere money-making concern, and hence the attention paid to poultry, bees, swine, and many "little things" which are too much…
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WE think at this season the following remarks on the above subject (which recently appeared in the ' Australasian') have a local interest for our farmers :--A good deal of…
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AT the general meeting of the P. and A. Association, held in the Town Hall on Aug. 9th, there were present--Dr. Wrigley (in the chair) and Messrs. Legh, Martin, Osborne,…
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Against mildew in the grape vines the French Agricultural Department has recommended the employment of the salts of copper M. Tisserand, Director of Agriculture,…
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THE following remarks from an American contemporary are well worthy of consideration ; they show the importance of rural life, as compared with the fluctuations in town life. Our…
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From two feet to thirty inches is a good distance at which to plant tomatoes apart when grown against walls and fences, and they should hare a similar space…
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The time will [?]…
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WASHING sheep, which seems to have been fenced upon a good many American sheep-farmers, as it has upon too many English flo[?]kmasters, is now being almost universally condemned in the…
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MR. M. J. ST. CLAIR, Inspector of Stock, kindly forwards us the following, received by him from the Stock Branch, Sydney:-- "MEMO.--I send yon with this some fresh…
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