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INDEX.
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Drapery for Mantelpiece 206
Four-roomed House, To Build 193
Fire Screens 207
House Building 192
Home, The, To Beautify 205
Horns 210
Leaves, Skeleton 207
Lustroleum 209
Newspapers, A Pocket For 211
Ottoman, A Centre 209
Paint, A Good Bush 204
Paint, Cheap, For Fences 204
Papering 211
Piles and Posts, To Preserve 205
Posts and Palings 205
Pockets, For Walls 212
Shells, To Clean and Polish 210
Table, A Dressing 210
Timber for Four-roomed House 198
Five 203
Timber, To Measure 204
Tools 194
To Preserve 205
Upholstery 208
Wardrobe, A Curtain 209
Wash Colour for Out-Buildings 204
Whitewash for Farm Buildings 204
Wood, To Preserve 205
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
Arrowroot 225
Cabbages 227
Clover 216
Farmer, The Young 176
Farming Hints 214
Haymaking, Hints On 217
Lucerne 216
Onions 227
Peas 228
Potato Growing 226
Pumpkins, Melons, &c. 228
Rape, To Grow 218
Silage Stacks 219
Tobacco Growing 220
Cultivation 221
To Make 222
Tomatoes 228
Vegetables Seeds Sowing 227
THE ORCHARD.
Budding 230
Barrel Run Without a Truck 241
Fruit Trees—
The Orange 233
Orange Growing 239
The Peach 234
 „ Quince 235
 „ Pear 235
 „ Apple 235
 „ Grape 237
Fruit Trees, A Word About 239
A Good Wash For 239
Scales and Insects 240
FLOWER GARDEN.
Cuttings, To Strike 245
Flower Garden, Hints About 243
Ponds and Tubs 244
Fernery Pot Plants 247
Grafting 239
Gardening 250
Planting Trees 229
Pruning 233

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Strawberries, How To Plant 240
Summer House, A Rustic 246
The Fuchsia 242
 „ Musk 244
 „ Begonia 245
Window Ornament 245
THE DAIRY.
Butter, Sweet, To Keep for Market 255
To Keep Cool 255
Hints About 255
Cow, Good Points of a 252
 „ To Tell the Age of a 253
 „ Management of a 253
 „ Hints About 253
Cheese Making 254
Churning 255
Dairy Buildings 252
DOCTORING STOCK.
For Mange in Dogs 271
Feeding Horses While Hot 272
Horse Feed 272
Jibbing or Baulking Horses 271
Remedy for Worms in Sheep 270
„ Horses 269
Swelled Sheep and Cattle 269
Sprains or Bruises in Cattle or Horses 269
Scum on Animal’s Eyes 270
To Feel the Pulse of Farm and Domestic Animals 268
Tape Worms in Lambs 270
To Keep Insects Out of Sheep Skins 271
To Tame the Wildest Horse 272
Worms in Horses 269
POULTRY NOTES.
Bumble Foot in Fowls 256
Eating Their Eggs 257
Food Supply for a Given Number 257
Hints About Poultry 258
Preserving Eggs 259
To Test Fresh Eggs 259
To Preserve Eggs in Salt 260
Uses of Eggs 261
HAM and FISH CURING.
Bacon Curing 262
 „ To Cure Dry 263
Brine for Pork 267
 „ Good, for Pork 267
Fish Curing 264
Hams, To Cure 263
No. 2 264
SKIN CURING.
To Cure Opossum Skins 274
 „No. 2 274
 „Kangaroo Skins 274
 „Skins for Rugs 275
To Tan Bear or Platypus Skins, &c. 274
 „and Colour Sheep Skins 275
 „Sheep Skins 275
To Bleach Sheep Skins White 275
To Keep Weevils Out of Skins 276
To Scour Wool 276
Bird Skinning and Stuffing 276
Curing Emu Skins 280
To Purify Feathers 280
To Preserve Bird Skins, No. 1 280
 „No. 2 280

ODD ITEMS FOR THE FARM 281 to 284