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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 133, 7 June 1893, Page 3

Publications. TKTEW TJE ALAND TGIARMER FOR JUNE Is Now Issued. CONTENTS:— THE FARM.—June Month—Farming Hints from an. Old Hand—New Zealand Rye-grass for Australia—Homemade Manures — Harvest Hints — Points for Wheat • growing — Makeshifts (illustrated)— Notes and Gleanings 193-ISS tilvß Stock. —Causes of Scouring In Sheep—Crib-biting Horses—Utilizing Wheat as Stock Feed—Polled Angus Heifer (illustrated) — Koch's Tuberculin Test—Anthrax in Britain .. 196 The Dairy.—Milk Pail with Strainer (illustrated) — Making the Butter Come—Feeding Milking Cows—Signs of a Good Dairy Cow—Get Good Milk —Salt for Dfciry Cattle—Dairy Skimmings 197-193 Farming Notes from New South "Wales 193 3PKCIAL INDUSTRIES. - Tobaccogrowing—The Manufacture of Perfumes—A Hinb to Acclimatisation Societies .. .. 2 THE GARDEN.-Monthly Reminders for June—Growing Onions for Murket ■ -Horticultural Clippings .. .. 201-202 Napier Horticultural Society .. .. 2020 The Fruitgrower. — Orchard Notes —The Almond — Fungicides, and how to use Them—Effects of Pruning Upon Tree Vitality-Fruit-Pilfering —Sulphate of Iron for Apple Trees— Experience in Carrying Fruit to London ... 203-205 ENTOMOLOGICAL. — Entomological Items—A Revival of Icerya Purchasi 206 THE POULTRY YARD. - Egg-pro-duction and Stimulating Treatment— Tablo Poultry at the Birmingham Show—Poultry Scratchings ... .. 207 South Canterbury Progress .. .. 203 Fighting Pests with Pent? 203 EDITORIAL. - Prospect of Interf colonial Free Trade—A Useful Hint (illustrated)— Notes on the Past Season in the Southland District—Prizes for Plant and Insect Collectors-Judging Stock by Points .. 209-211 MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.-Pig-Breeding and Bacon-Curing in South Canterbury—Remarks on Fruitgrowing in Whangarei—The New Zealand Hot Springs-Opening of Natives Lands at Tauranga —The Cheviot Estate—The Balance-sheet—Revenue Returns—Passing Notes and Jottings en Route .. .. ..." •• 211"?^ Fostering the Study of Agriculture .. 213 Miscellaneous 'lj EDITOR'S LETTER BOX. - Agricultural Books, etc.—Re Soup-Making— Should the Hawk be Destroyed? — Land Booms and Bank Failures — Points of Heavy Draught Horses — Ploughs and Plough - makwrs — A Jersey Heifer Performance—Judging Stock by Points—Raising Turnip Seed 214-21a Our Inquiry Department. - Fruitroom — Chestnuts — Pigs Dying — Teocinte — Concrete Sheep Dip ~ Turnips—Parasite of Fishes .. .. 215 DISTRICT REPORTS.-Hawke's Bay Province: Wood ville — Canterbury Province: North and Mid, SouthWellington Province: Palmorston North, Masterton—The West Coast— Otago Province: Gore—Auckland Provinco; Waimate North, Whangarei, Bay of Plenty, Waikato.. .. 216-221 THE APlAßY.—Seasonable Hints for June — Labelling Honey Wrongly — Langstroth's Reminiscences—The Bee and the Orchard 222-223 The Nile's Headwaters ite Tho British at Zanzibar 220 HOME AND HOUSEHOLD.-Poetry: The Farmer's Wife-In the Gloamin 226 The Storyteller.—How Gus Gurley got Satisfaction—A Veteran of Water- ' loo—Great Men on Women .. .. 226-227 For the Ladies. -Attractivo Without Being Beautiful — Fashion Column (illustrated)-Work Corner-Noses-Women's Waists—Fireside Scraps -. 227-223 For the Young Folks.—Ruth and Her Flowers—Dr. Ben — Old Aunt Polly — Flying Without Wings-A New Zealand Lasßie in Victoria—The Finding of the head of St. EdmundBanditti of Foreign Society .. .. 229-20 l Children's Post Office— Splendour of Modern New York .. •• •• M The Household.—To Renovate Plate Glass —Apples as Food —Fnitl. a Perfect Food— Housekeeping HintsKitchen Recipen 231-23<J Sunday Reading.— Leaves From My Note-Book ... ... "<! TVT O W B U B L I 9 H B D, ••im RON TIE ft TT-l-ff^ JO ' JLA By Edwin Stanley brookes, j.b (Formerly Government Staff Snrveyos.) Price, 5/» Synopsis : THE MAORIS & WHENCE GAME TEE'S RELICS OF THE TAINUI ARRIVAL OF THE MAORIS A NATIVE TRAGEDY THE WHITE CLIFFS THE FOREST SETTLEMENT EARLY RUIN 3 THE DEATH TRAP OF THE PLAINS LOVE ROMANCE OF THE MAORI A TERRIBLE CHRISTMAS EVB CAMP LDTE & ITS CONSEQUENCES THE DUSKY MAORI MAIDEN THE MAORI WAX DEATH OF V($T TEMPSKY » HUNTING WILD PIGS. to bb had .at the bookskller9, ob Wholesale from E, BRETT. AUCKLAND " SSAR " Gn?IOB, Or "Gbamho" Offjoe, Wslunotok, i HI s T O B t OF T^T EW rjFEALAND. BT FREDERICK J o MOSa NOW PUBLISHED 27 5 Pages, HANDSOMELY BOUND, IN BoABDf-u -■■■-... 3s<»d ©lots „ r . ~ - a*oll AT ALL BOOKSELLERS. Tho Index is of the most comuieta klua^ so cla&siflud aud llnished in dates und dot^wl art So uu&e it au outlinn hia toiT in itselt