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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 287, 3 December 1889, Page 2

•ORETT'S AUCKLAND A LMANAC AND : PROVINCIAL HANDBOOK For 1890 Will contain Specialties of a new and attractive character, including a splendid Lithographic PICTURE OF GREAT NATIVE FEAST ::, ; -t. HELD AT REMUERA IN, 1844. , This large and unique representation of a Great Historical Event is suitable for framing, and will bo issued gratuitously to all purchasers of the Almanac. The aim of this work is to describe in an interesting manner the vast resources, the climate, and the scenery of the Auckland Provincial District ; its mountains, harbours, rivers, and lakes; its forests and its plains ; its cultivated and its waste lands; and, to show foreign capitalists that our genial clime, rich'lands, mineral products, and intelligent, go-ahead people offer inducement to intending investors or settlers superior to those of any other part of the world. Other Colonial Handbooks have invariably misrepresented this naturally rich and beautiful Province, while many pages of the above work are devoted entirely to setting forth Auckland's capabilities and its many superior advantages; in addition to which the fullest information is afforded of all political, social, and religious matters of Provincial or Colonial importance. As each year the contents are re-written and the statistical information brought up to the latest date, the annual volume becomes a valuable work of reference, worthy ef a permanent place in every colonist's library. GUARANTEED CIRCULATION, 5,000 COPIES. As the book has now become a work of daily reference in the home of every settler throughout tho province, and is in use in all public offices throughout the colony, and in many leading places abroad, it may with confidence be described as the best permanent medium of advertising offered to business men. This being the Jubilee of the Colony, it is expected that there will bo a large influx of visitors into Auckland, the Wonderland of the World, and tho boo„ will be used as a handy guide io tourists and others. It is estimated that over 1,000 copies of this hook are sent abroad annually by merchants to their foreign correspondents, and by residents to their friends who are meditating emigration to New Zealand. They are found on all incoming passenger ships and steamers. Tho work will be issued at the old price— ONE SHILLING. ..,. TERMS FOR ADVERTISING : Whole Page .. ~ ~ „ -.£2 0 0 Half Pago _, ... 10 0 Quarter Pago .. - .. .. .'. 015 0 Card .. .. „ ... ~. ... 010 0 SPECIAL POSITIONS AS PER AGREEMENT. Intending advertisers will plcaso forward their advertisements at once, to ensure insertion. THE -KTEW yEALAND THIARMER j FOR DECEMBER, I IS . NOW READY. Page. THE FARM.—December Month—The Introduction ot Foreign Stock—Machines for Husking and Shelling Maizo (illustrated) —Frozen Meat Business Kxpanding — Shearing by Steam— . Weights of Fleeces —Hay Making . (illustrated)— Soils that Need Drainage 473-475 The Dairy.—Butter-nlakingr—Diseases after Calving— Shipping Butter—Suggestions for Butter Making Experiments—Dairy Skimmings - .. .. 476477 Live Stock.—Pigs—Guernseys (illustrated)— Roaring in Horses—Ferrets—.... Sale of Shorthorns at Holker —A Broken-heartedHorse-MakingCheese on a Small Scale *'£ ~ .v .. -478-479 Notes and Gleanings .. ■ . ... " ... .., 480 THE GARDEN.—Monthly Reminders —The Red Scale on Oranges—To Raise and Keep Onion Sets—Some Pests of the Orchard—Flies on Apple Twigs, and Spiders (illustrated)—Horticultu-. ral CUppings _ ~.,,,.. .. , ... The Fruitskow-K. —Orchard Insects in December—Orchard Notes—Fusicladium, Pruning for Fruit-bearing, etc.—Lemon Cultivation in Sicily— The Wire- worm and the Plum Curculio (illustrated)— The New Zealand Ladybird in California (illustrated)— United States Bureau of Agriculture —The Best Known-Means of Protection from Codlin Moth ; .. 482-486 THE POULTRY V A RD—Questions and Answers about Capons—The Indian Game Cross for Table Poultry—An Experience in Poultry Keeping— , Changing the Colour of Canaries — Minorcas and Spanish—Buff Cochins (illustrated)—A Working Man on the Profits of Poultry Keeping—Poultry • Scratchings .. ..... '.. ~487-488 EDITORIAL. — The Butter Export Trade — The Proposed Land . TaxEarly Ripening Wheat—lntercolonial Reciprocity .. .. ».. 489-490 SPECIAL INDUSTRIES. — Fruit Preserving in California- — .Lemon Essences—Curing Figs by Drying .'." _ 491 Profit in Poultry .. s '..' .. .. 491 EDITOR'S LETTER BOX. — Angora Goats — Wool Scouring 4- Measure-, . , i ments of Tree Growths—lntercolonial . ' Free Trade—Pickling Wheat, etc.. ... . 492 Our Inquiry Department.—A South Wind and Cream Rising—Stretching Wire Netting—Sweet Cider —Lambs Dying and Other Matters-Wheat-Combs of Plymouth Rock Fowls— About Taranaki Land—Soft Soap— Average Annual Rainfall in Auck- ,•: land District ... , .. .'. ... - 492493 A Visitor's Impressions of Nelson .. 493 THE APIARY. — Seasonable Hints for December—lnstructions to Beginners , ; in Bee Culture (illustrated) ,— Re Queen Hives'.. ,',.;..0.... ..' ; .-. , 494495 Letters from Beekeepers.—Clover • and Other Honey—" Puffing Beekeeping "—Clover and Bush Bee Pasture.. 495 The Market .. ~ ........... ~ ,495 "DISTRICT REPORTS.—Hawke's Bay —Wanganui—The, West Coast—Wairoa South—Rangitikei— Whangarei— Auckland—South Canterbury—Masterton—Bay of Plenty—Woodville— Poverty Bay ... ".. .__ ; ...;: ;>•; .. 497-504 Rainfall for September .. :. ... 504 New Zealand Hemp Market Report .. 501 London Colonial Wool Report ,> ' i. 504 HOME AND HOUSEHOLD.-Poetry: " The Ballad Of the. Drover ..,.'"' .. .506 THE STORYTELLER.-A Strange In- . troduction ... ... • v .-.■ ..■506-507 •For the Ladiesi.—A Christriias , 'in the' Bush—English Fashion Items—A Perfect Month Essential to Beauty—A Great Opportunity in His ; .Grasp—'■ , American Sea' Bathing, Methods—. ~' ' About Ladies—Who is a Lady I—Fire/.side Scraps,,. ....;. ,"... ..v ■...; rv?..;fisoßrso For the-:Young Fot_ks.—The Ups; and Downs in a Fortnight's Holiday— The Staff and, the, Fiddle,,," '.. ...• 509-511 The Children's-Rost-jOppice .. .. 511-512 THE HOUSEHOLD.-A Wag. of a Botanist- Whole Wheat Bread—The Housekeeping of the Future—Medical Notes .An Extending Clothes, Prop . .(illustrated)—Kitchen Recipes" ;. ' 512 SHOWREPORTS/— Whangarei r Mas- ~-.'{'':• terton — Egmont—Bay of Islands— & -... Napier — Canterbury —'Wanganui— Palmerstpii—iWairarapa;;,..; v 3l -.r. -. 513-520 A Visit to the Bay of Islands (illus- v trated) ; ..,;■' ;.. ..'•• .'. ,; '.: "..' [ 621 The Farmer's Christinas- .. . ... " .. 521 Proceedings of the Joint Stock Committee; of Last Session v.'Ki -..-.'■'--.; -■-.. -522-523 Increase in New Zealand F10ck0.... .. .524 Alleged Remedy for American Blight.. 524 MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.— "' :'■■- Intercolonial Stock V"Conference — Temifka Hemp MUISr-The.Food of -..Vegetables—Machinery at the.Christ-. r ,,-,,,. church Metropolitan Show*-Le_un.M-.':. ova"Plants for Pasture; Lands ....... •_., 525-528 . ; ■, » $ Can be obtained atfthe STARO_i"ce r Shortla,nd, street, ahd. all booksellera throußbout 1 INow 'Zefilaiid,_JS| ... t\"' il *