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  2. FARM NOTES.

    Sow in season. Much disappointment in the garden often results from unseasonable sowing. Dairymen who maintain neat, sweet ...

    Article : 277 words
  3. RACE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

    The Hon. John Tudhope, formerly a member of the Government of Cape Colony, writes to "The British Weekly," in sympathy with the Rev Mr Lloyd, of ...

    Article : 1,453 words
  4. SPIRITS AND GOLD.

    A quiet and essentially bucolic neighborhood is that of Drysdale. The pursuit of the odoriferous onion and tempting "tater," and the production of melons ...

    Article : 1,506 words
  5. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    From a book containing speeches by Lord Roberts on "Musketry Training and Artillery Practice," recently published by Thom and Co. we gather no British ...

    Article : 998 words
  6. OUR ARMY SYSTEM.

    In Mr Bennet Burleigh's brilliant "Natal Campaign" (Chapman and Hall, 8s) and Mr Spenser Wilkinson's "Lessons of the War" (Constable, 2s 6d) we have ...

    Article : 957 words
  7. THE PIG-YARD.

    On how many farms where fast pork-making is a feature is there a pig-yard? I mean an open, yet sheltered and partly-covered enclosure, where the little pigs ...

    Article : 3,332 words
  8. EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT FEEDS ON DAIRY COWS.

    Professor Cattrell divides these into two classes:—Loosening Feeds—Lucerne, sorghum hay, ensilage, roots, bran, linseed meal, gluten meal. Constipating Feeds— ...

    Article : 46 words
  9. THE BEEKEEPER.

    Bee-keepers are not slow to take advantage of any system in bee-keeping that will add to the weight of honey obtained, writes "An English Bee-keeper" in the "Journal of ...

    Article : 650 words
  10. KILLING LICE ON FARM STOCK.

    Rub the fryings from salt meat along the back bone and about the head of the animals troubled with lice. If this is repeated a few times they will be killed. ...

    Article : 83 words
  11. HAVE THE GARDEN NEAR THE HOUSE.

    I find that having the garden handy is a very convenient arrangement (writes an American farmer). Heretofore such gardening as I attempted was carried on at ...

    Article : 88 words
  12. DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

    There is no advantage in cooking or steaming food for cows in the sense of changing the character of the food by heat, as is done in domestic cooking. Corn ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. TREATMENT FOR SOILS.

    The productiveness of the soil depends largely upon how it is cultivated, and also, of course, to a considerable degree upon the heat and moisture it receives. ...

    Article : 165 words
  14. DETERMINING THE AGE OF A HORSE.

    Before we can determine the age of a horse by the teeth it is necessary that we have a general understanding of the form and structure of the teeth. The horse ...

    Article : 256 words
  15. THE CHILDREN.

    Away in the city, years ago, I made me friends of the boys and girls; I warmed my heart in the golden glow Of smiling faces and sunny curis. ...

    Article : 382 words
  16. KIPLING AT THE CAPE.

    Kipling has made himself thoroughly at home with the "Absent-Minded Beggars" in the hospitals at the Cape. Here is an extract from a letter which has been ...

    Article : 298 words
  17. TOMMY'S DEVICES.

    A correspondent in the London "Daily Telegraph", writes that the irrepressible Tommy manages to extract a little amusement even out of such unlikely ...

    Article : 375 words
  18. A NOVEL FEEDING EXPERIMENT.

    "Feeding pigs on barley sugar" we hear of sometimes, but feeding horses on molasses has now been practised for two years in Fiji, under the able management ...

    Article : 394 words
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    In the laundry of an insane asylum at Pontiac, Mich., U.S.A., electric irons, instead of gas irons, have proved to be peculiarly adapted for insane asylum ...

    Article : 107 words
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    In the Americo-Spanish War Mrs Clara Colby accompanied her husband, a Brigadier-General, to the front as war correspondent, and risked her life more ...

    Article : 78 words
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