Vi CONTENTS. 



CHAP. XI. ROTATION OR CHANGE OF CROPS : Results and Advantages 

 of Rotation ; Oil and Fibre Yielders ; The Olive, Peanuts, Flax or 

 Linseed, Broom Corn, Castor Oil ; Getting Out the Oils ;. Banana 

 Fibres 116-127 



CHAP. XII. MAKING AND USING MANURES. How Crops are Made ; 

 What Plants Take Out of the Soil ; Vegetables, Field Crops. Fruit j 

 The Australian Compost Heap ; Materials Available ; Artificial 

 Manures; The Time for Manuring ; Waste of Manures- - 127-135 



CHAP. XIII. IRRIGATION AND WATER STORAGE : Relation of Plants 

 to Water ; Crops by Artificial Watering ; M- thods ; Scarcity of Water ; 

 Sources of Supply ; Irrigating Hill Sides, For Grass, Crops, Orchards, 

 Vegetables ; When Water is Scarce ; Water Storage ; Pumping ; 

 Temperature of Water ........ 135 149 



CHAP. XIV. LIVE STOCK IN AUSTRALIA : Grazing Farming ; The 

 Stock Available ; Physiology of Life ; Shorthorns, Herefords, Devons, 

 Polleys, Crosses ; Live and Dead Weight ; Connection between Live 

 Stock and the Soil 149-157 



CHAP. XV. SHEEP AND WOOL : Small and Large Flocks ; The Merino ; 

 Country for Fine Wool ; Mutton Sheep; Leicesters. Lincolns South 

 Downs, Romney Marsh, Crosses ; Classifying Wool ; Weight of Fleeces 



157-166 



CHAP. XVI. THE HORSE IN AUSTRALIA. Buying a Horse ; Judging 

 Age; Good Mothers Good Stock ; Breeding Horses, Training 166-175 



CHAP. XVII. THE DAIRYING INTERESTS : Materials Available for 

 Profitable Dairying; A Business-like Cow; Breeds for the Dairy; 

 Points of a Real Milk Maker ; Milking ; Testing the Qualities ; How 

 Much Feed? Treatment of Milk; BUTTER MAKING; The Factory 

 System ; Creameries ; CHEESE MAKING ----- 175 201 



CHAP. XVIII. THE PIG : The Kind that Pays ; Breeds ; What Pig 

 Points Mean : Pen and Paddock Pig Keeping ; Killing and Curing ; 

 Lard versus Meat 201 213 



CHAP. XIX. POULTRY : Requirements for Success ; Fences, Buildings, 

 Roosts ; Feeding ; Water ; Peculiarities of Breeds ; The Egg Layers ; 

 Table Breeds ; Crosses ; Breedin ; Incubation ; Incubators ; Testing 

 Eggs; Ducks, Geese, Turkeys; Diseases of Fowls - - 213-236 



CHAP. XX. CROPS FOR FEED, SILOING, HAY, ETC. : Requirements 

 for Feeding:; The Crops Available ; The Silo, and Ensilage Making; 

 Feeding with Ensilage ; Chemistry of the Operations ; Haymaking 



236-244 



