AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7527, 17 April 1890, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Several samples of whent grown at th H Dookie Experimental Farm S» ? e wc-im p flrst-claas awards at the above exhfWtU *t They are know as MDn Toltc'ffiSi $ " Battling Tom," "Champion $&& I and "Farmer's Friend.» A%fi2 award has also been given for Cftenliet barley, grown at the same Institution 'J will be well if some of oar onfcrarNpfarmers obtain supplies o{ theal n«vl cereals, as souio of them may ba lautnifti ' be peculiarly adapted to our climate as;! ! soli. Mr J. h. Thompson Is the diw-;» j of the above institution, who will t?. i lese respond promptly to any &o>>lht 3 i for information or for samples, * A Michigan farmer feella a contact'; how he manages to conquer (Wi thistles by the help of 200 sheop. lUrl a small handful of Rait on each the root. The sheep eat tho thbtla tic <i to the ground. The suiting is repested "n often'as may be necessary, and the thUjk seldom appears the second year. S ' 1. Good cows. & Good food {<v,, 1 meal, oats, bran and clover hay or km I grass 3. Good dairyotaUU or ma»','i*. |. ■ iow waQ are kirjd and gautk quid k S their raovementfl, clewly ia habits, m\ t careful in their work. 4, |i e.g., buckets, palls, strainers, caus, s k' 1 crocks, churns, workers, and thstac. f meters.— 'Jersey Btdleiin ij; : Upwards of ono hundi-ed thouean<{e?r*', Cf of raallee land in Victoria, pr*vfoa#!y %i treated as waste land, hava beeii «i----into cultivation and niarte to produpsflnj % l • crops of wh©a,t during the last three yt*w, i|» The mallea scrub was first rolled flown If ?* niftssive rollers drawn by bullocks, and Him $ :■ burnt. Afterwards the lend w&i eaitl- £\\ vated by means of stump jumping pl<ns-;fc h: and harrows, and sown ivlta whcst, \k Hiwhole of the operations cosfclpg only Sle «lv acre. . ?3