A farmer says, after losing 100 head of poultry by cholera, I found that a tablespoonful of soda mixed with a quart of milk and given with the food was a Nothing is better than to cross common sows with a thorough-bred boar of a well-established and highly improved breed, such as the Essex, Suffolk, or Berkshire. If sawdust is thoroughly rotted it will bean excellent mulch around your trees. Fresh sawdust is objectionable around young trees, as it forms a bed for the growth of fungi, whieh are said upon very good authority to injure the tree. If sawdust is considerably decomposed, it might be a better use of it to compost it with lime and use it as a fertiliser in heavy soil rather; than its mulch.
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 21, 3 December 1874, Page 3
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