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  2. THICK AND THIN SEEDING.

    THE fact that plants yield more largely when they are furnished with abundant room, and that the thin seeding of a crop, up to certain limits, yields a better harvest than any thicker seeding, is no new thing. We read of it in the works ...

    Article : 755 words
  3. EMPLOYMENT OF FECAL MATTERS IN AGRICULTURE.

    IN a paper published in the Journal des Savants, M. Chevreul, after describing the London method of sewage treatment, and some of the difficulties connected with it, asks these three questions:—Is human excrement, thus ...

    Article : 949 words
  4. THE CHEMISTRY OF MANURES.

    THERE has been much difference of opinion as to the most important fertilising agent of manure, and the most judicious way of its application to land. In the Journal of Horticulture, vol. xvii. of the new series, this subject was ...

    Article : 865 words
  5. FLUKE.

    THE Agricultural Gazette, alluding to a statement recently made at a meeting of the London Farmers' Club, that the liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) only infests those sheep which feed upon low lands, states that this is an error, because the ...

    Article : 385 words
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    Messrs. Tuxford, of Adelaide, the well-known machinery importers, have failed for a large amount. The Marquis of Normanby left Brisbane on the 12th November, when the Executive swore in Sir Maurice ...

    Article : 523 words
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    Madame Arabella Goddard has been astonishing the residents of New Zealand by her musical skill during the past few weeks. The distinguished lady did not find Maori land the El Dorado she expected it to be, and has since ...

    Article : 81 words
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