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FARM AND GARDEN.

Agricultural Jottings, The moment a former tries to cultivate too much land he becomes a drudgo and forming don't pay. -a_ All troej should be pruned at planting to one central trunk with aide branches at as near right angles with the trunk as possible, never leave anything that will form a crotch, the •tree williaplit if you do; this has killed more bearing trees than hard winter, The Warren Herald says: A curiosity in tho.shape of a cob of mai?o surrounded by seven smaller cobs, all of which are attached at the base, was shown to us on Tuesday by Sergeant Brennan. It was grown.by Mr Hibba, of Timor, who presented it to the Sergeant, . Young sows should not be bred be;fp#yhey are eight months old. Too . imh stress cannot be laid on the inipOTveo of using matured sires on . young dams. Sons that produce eight pigs at their first litter, aro usually discarded for breeding purposes, being con&idorcd unprofitable. The finely powdered dusk from the . roadside is useful to put in the lion houße. Sprinkled over the floor it keeps everything noal, and soon forms an excellent fertiliser for next season's supply. It is healthy, too, as anyone knows who has watched fowls dust themselves in the highway. Ifa horse lames himself by stepping on a nail, fork, or other sharp substance, apply at once (first washing the foot clean) a warm bran poultice; renew it three limes in 24 hours for days; then twice a day is suflion and give him rest witnTflrWiousbut light diet; until he is weft. Before spending money for commercial fertilisers, study caiefully to see if it cannot be paid out to better advantage for the purchase of concentrated foods, whicli will give some i return in daily products, or otherwise , and yet give an increased value to the manure pile. This is the most economical method ol buying fertilisers, i Thero is no better fertilizer for i onions than a mixture of bone dust j and oslies (unleached hard wood - ashes)—s7 to 100 pounds of the for- , mer, with double this quantity of i nehes spread broadcast and highly i harrowed in a month or so before | planting, is a fair application for an ] onion crop. On soil needing nitrogen, ( an application broadcast of nitrate of ] Boda, after the onions have com- ] menced to grow, will produce marked i results usually. i Mr Kell (of tho Central Bureau of ] South Australia) said at the recent , congress:—" When up in the North , last November I advised farmers who | were following land to go and see Mr | Macdonald's form, I had not seen | ' it that year; but I oflered to these ' men to pay all expenses and give j them £SO (or any charitablo institu- ( tion if they could get more weeds on ( Mr than would fill ( r Macdon I aid's form is a credit to the colony, j He works' the land, and will not allow | a weed to grow." i In Florida, whero the soil is mostly Band, the leisurely but thrifty farmer has his ground lightly stirred in his ' groyes about every two weeks, with great benefit to the orops. even when oo fertiliser is used. It is claimed , that the surface cultivation checks ' evaporation) keeps down weeds, and puts the sod in a condition to absorb air and water readily. This accords ( with the well known saying," Tillage ( is manure." Until the list is increased | of plants that may be profitably sown | for shading and green manuring the | soil can anything be better proposed than frequent cultivation atseasonable \ times. It is said that the first fuchsia was | introduced into England by a sailor | from Chili, in 1768. A plant from i this was sold to an English nursery- I man for over £2O. Between 1830 ■ and 1840 hybrids became rather com. mon. The modern race of fuchsias dates from the introduction of fuchsia ' fulgens. The white corolla varieties . appeared 1855. The raiser of them ' l ' mo t <uev were produced, left no knowledge as to how he obtained them. There is a large nuin- ■ her of species in South America, | many of them in many respects far more beautiful than the hybrid varie- \ ties, but not having been pushed by florists, they have in a great measure, i gone out of cultivation. In 'the January issue of Tho Djiry, of London, we find tabulated statement as to the importations of dairy produce into the United Kingdom. The source of supply of butter in 1892, was 83 follows: —Sweden, 228,885 cwt; Denmark, 8G3.522 owt; 1 Germany, 124,288 cwt; Holland, 141,888 owtj France. 842,687 owt; Canada, 59,571 cwt; United States, 46,846 cwt; oth>r countries, 175,517 cwt. Total, 2,182,909 cwt. Cheese:-Holland, 278,822 owt; France, 45,605 owt; Canada, 1,083,598 oVt; United States, 818,434 cwt; Jttix countries. 56,855 cwt. We need Kfear for a market if we can keep Wm in quality of our dairy produce

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 3

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FARM AND GARDEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4437, 6 June 1893, Page 3

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