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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1892, Page 3

PaMie Notes* JJEW J/EALAND GRAPHIC _ND T ADIES' JOURNAL CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY 6, 1892. PIERETTE. A TRIP TO THE SOUTH SEAS (By Bertha V Goring) : Making Kava at Samoa. CRUISING AROUND THE ISLANDS (Illustrated) : j-NCIUNTING SCESES IN SAMOA. TAURANGA HARBOUR (By our Artist). A STORY OF A SOCIETY GIRL. WELL _____^ T ELECTION SKETCHES }f l N LADY AUTHORS. MAYOR AND TOWN CLERK OP CHRISTCHURCH. A STORY OF KITCHEN LIFE. LOVELY FASHION PLATES. WHAT WOMEN EAT. j FOR THE GIRL WHO RIDES. SIXPENCE PER SINGLE COPY. Subscription per annum, 255, or 20s payable in advance, postage paid. Send your orders at once through any Bookseller or News Agent in New Zealand, or direct to the Publisher. H. BR,E TT, SBORTLAND AND FORT STREETS, AUCKLAND. THE TWTEW FJE ALAND TJIARMER FOR FEBRUARY Is Now Issued. Contents: THE FARM.-February Month-Seed Farming at Mangerc—Tcocinite, the New Fodder Plant—Tho ExDcrience of Three New Zealanders in Southern California—An Ingenious Stile (illustrated) —Notes and Gleanings 33-35 English Flax Market 36 Live SracK.-Prize Shorthorn Bull—A Now Zealand Prize Lincoln Ram (illus-trated)--Another New Sheep-shearing Machine — Parasitic Infestation of Lambs—Mutton Cutlets—Treatment of Foot Rot —Salt and Turpentine for Lung-worm .7 ~ 37-38 The Dairy.—Dairying in Waikato— Beginning Dairy Farming 38 Fruit Shipments to London _ „ „ 39 Leech-eating Insects .. .. ... .. 39 An Important Concern 39 New Zealand Produce **-_ the Home - Market * 40 THE GARDEN.-Monthly Reminders for February—A Trial of 'Planet Jr.' Implements (illustrated)— Horticultural Clippings '.. .. 41-42 The Fruitgrower. — The Orchard — Apritot Trees Injured by Paris-green— Small Fruit Culture in Otago—Shop Prices of Fruit—A London Expert on the Fruit Export Trade 42-44 ENTOMOLOGICAL.-A Grub in Stone Fruits—'lnsect Life'— 45 THE POULTRY YARD.-Barren Hens and Infertile Eggs —Cull Without .Shrinking—How to Treat Sick FowlsLopped Combs — Weight of Asiatic Fowls—Poultry Scratching* .. .. 46 SPECIAL INDUSTRIES.-Drying Figs 47 Terrible Bush Fires 48 EDITORIAL—Disoase in Sheep at Tauranga—Packing of New Zealand Hemp —Otago Peninsula Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show — Another Champion Ram (illustrated) — Destroyers of the Beautiful—British Exports and Imports of Horses—— LeechEating Bug—The Hessian Fly at Masterton (illustrated)—A New Zealand Pig Breeding Establishment — Colonial Wool Sales-Breeding for Wool in tho North .. \... 49-52 EDITOR'S LETTER BOX.-The Sheep Diseaso at Tauranga—Butter Refusing to Come—Tho Effect of Soil upon Health of Sheep — Bees and Maori Bugs — Tho Points of Jersoy Cattle 53 Our Inquiry Department.—Sick Lambs —Comb Foundation—Stack EnsilageUtilising Brine for the Garden—Surface Sowing Fern Land—A Suitable District for a Creamery — Useful LadybirdsDiseased Plum Trees 54 DISTRICT REPORTS.—Waikato—Walniato North—Otago Province: Gore— Kiverton — Southland — Dunedin — Nelson—Canterbury 64-62 A Professor of Agriculture on Agricultural Teaching 62 THE APlAßY.—Seasonable Hints for February—New South Wales Bee Notes —Probable Cause of Foul Brood in New Zealand, and its Remedy—Tarakenc Apiary-Qualities of the Punic or African Boo—Beekeeping from a Man's Standpoint—Beeological Notes .. .. 62-64 HOMBAND HOUSEHOLD.—Poetry. A Desorted Homestead—'Twould Make a Better World—Love Tokens 66 The Storyteller.—An Awful Alternative .. ■• «>-<" For the Ladies.—Death's Sting—English Fashion Items—Fancy Work, Useful and Ornamental (illustrated)— Dress Aids for Mothers—How to Make a pretty Ornament—-Our Fashion Column (illustrated)— Fireside Scraps .. .. 68-69 For the Young Folks.—Telling What the Baby Did—'Who goes There?—A . Scene at School-Wise Monkeys.. .. 70 Children's Post Office .... .. 70 The Household. — A Delicious and Simple Drink for tho Hot WeatherMedical Notes-Kitchen Recipes .. 72 SUNDAY READING. - Theol* •■ •• 72 mo PROFESSIONAL AND COMMERCIAL MEN. mYPEWRITER /COPYING. i SHORTHAND WRITINO. AND OFFICIAL REPORTING Undertaken on the Shortest Notiob, Apply for address at ««star " office. |T?T"t c r j> r o s„ STOCK and SHAREBROKERS, No 3 Stock Exchange, and 97, Queen-street, Auckland ; also at Albert-street, Thames. Sharelnvestors'Guic*"forwardedonapplicatioa