November 1, 1907 
The Biter Bit 
! The Price Government made no mistake 
when it sent Major Norton to England 
as South Australia’s commercial agent. 
Norton hustles like a beaver and is mak- 
ing the conservative Londouer order lamb 
and eggs in hissleep. The Fogtown mer- 
chant who deals in Danish “and Russian 
eggs scouted the idea of the final glory of 
the hen being landed in decent condition 
from far off Australia, and declined to 
stock the article. Then the S.A. agent 
laid seige to the biggest Russian egg man 
till he promised to compare samples at 
his own premises. He reckoned that he 
and Norton would meet by themselves, 
and cast an indifferent eye on outsides of 
the eggs and depart, but Norton knew 
better than to waste a good advertisement. 
He turned up with a whole caravan of 
produce dealers and peessmen, and got to 
business{at once. ‘ Tell you what we'll do,’ 
he said briskly to the Russian eggest, ‘you 
break six of yours and I'll break six of 
mine and each man’ll swallow his own.’ 
‘The Muscovite eggist turned pale and 
backed out. Then Norton swallowed the 
yolks of six eggs taken ar random from 
a S.A. consignment and the name of 
the Russian egg became Mud,—Sydney 
Bulletin. 
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The cackle of the hen may not be 
musical according to accepted canons 
but the notes her efforts produce always 
pass current with the grocer. 
Take care of the late hatches. They 
will come handy when beef is high and 
the pork is gone. 
Geese are always in demand and bring 
in a fair price, More should be raised. 
Ducks are both popular and profitable 
with many poultry-raisers. 
A small boy once had a bantam hen 
given him ‘but was much distressed at 
the small size of her eggs. The explana. 
tion of his parents that the bird was a 
diminutive one afforded him little conso- 
lation, In his mother’s drawing-room 
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under a glass case was an ostrich’s egg 
which commanded his admiration. It was 
noticed one day that this was missing 
from ifs place ; it was subsequently found 
in the fowl-house near to the nest to 
which the bantam resorted and a closer 
inspection showed that there had been 
pasted on it a small piece of peper with 
the following words of exhortation and 
encouragement : Keep your eye on this 
and do your best. 
Exceptional opportunities offer them- 
selves at Roseworthy Agricultural College 
to those desirous of learning commercial 
poultry-breeding. The College station 
with its fine equipment, the facilities for 
studying incubation, and the splendid 
collection of birds will give practical 
work while instruction in theory and 
general management is given in the 
Jecture-room, 
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tree Plantiag in-Goruss;. 
(-ranslated froin the German). 
The accompanying picture shows how the firm of H. Henkel, of Darmstadt 
(Germany) has tor years planted its conifera. It shows how the turf right round the 
packing is lifted out; then how the packing is secured in zinked wire netting. The 
wire netting has to be left round the packing; it is then very easy, even after some 
years, when. it is necessary to make more room, to transplant again. The zinked 
wire netting will resist for years the corroding influence of moisture; it will 
also give to heavier roots, which might want to break through, without interfering 
with their growth. Tuais procedure, notwitbstanding its simplicity. shows so many 
advantages that it is worth while trying ; every garden artist ought to reckon with it. 
The nurseryman has so much unpleasantness through bad carriage of packages that 
it is highly recommen led to him to do it in zinked wire netting. as demonstrated. 
To Correspondents. 
Enquirer.—We should advise you to 
select utility strains of Wyandottes or 
Black Orpingtons for all-round purposes. 
W. B, wants to know what is the best 
hedge to keep boys out of his garden. 
We reccomend African Boxthorn; it is an 
evergreen with an abundance of foliage 
of quick growth and very thorny, and will 
if properly attended to produce a good 
close hedge in Jess time then any other 
we know of. If grown from seed the pre- 
sent month is a good time to sow, it is 
best sown in a bed of good soil and trans- 
planted in the following Autumn. If you 
wish to save time get them from a nur- 
séeryman when the plants are about one 
foot high. 
T, Walker.—The largest number of hens 
kept in one pen or fowl-house is stated 
by © Rural New York’ to be 2,000. 
Tt would take too much space to describo 
the house in which surh a flock of hens 
are kept. {In the December issue we will 
give you an interesting article on the 
subject. 
A sound horse will stand a wonderful 
amount of work if he has the right kind 
of care while at it. 
Ii is stated that 22,000 women, mostly 
the wives and daughters of farmers, have 
taken agricultural lessons at the New 
York State College of Agriculture. 
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