E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Etc., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
March Number of 1908 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
CONTAINS— 
The Vegetable Garden— The Orchad— The Poultry Yard— 
Operations for the Month Exporting Fruits. Diseases of Fowls : Scrofula, Tuber- 
Cultivation. culosis, Constipation, Scaly Leg, 
Flower Garden— Liver Diseases, Leg Weakness, 
The Oleander. The Dairy— Gapes. 
Notes for the Month. Insanitary Milking Sheds. The Farm— 
How to Photograph Flowers. Dairy Notes. Ensilage. 
EprioriaL. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. &e, &., &e. 
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easiest essentials in life to deal 
with, and while it seems the simplest thing 
in the world to water a garden there are 
limits to its simplicity. It can be over 
done or underdone and in both cases the 
results are bad. If too much water is given 
plants and trees will soon show a surfeit 
and droop and perhaps die, and the sane 
results follow upon the lack of water at 
the right time. It is a question of judg- 
ment and experience. But the cheif 
consideration is to see that plants have 
a sufficiency of water by retaining in the 
soil, not on the top of it. The fork, the 
spade, and the rake must always go with 
the water. Keep the top soil open and 
free with a light covering mulch to 
keep out the heat and the gardener will 
find his water bill very much smaller 
and his plants and trees very much bigger 
‘than if he runs the water over a smooth 
baked surface of soil. Summer gardens 
in spite of the lack of a good rainfall for 
months should now look gay and _ beauti- 
ful right through to the Autumn fall, 
What with cannas, and zinnias, balsams, 
dahlias. sunflowers, and the like of bril- 
liant bloomers, every little garden plot 
should smile upon the weary, heated and 
perhaps belated gardener. Our opera- 
tions for the month give all directions 
for future beauties, and the gardener 
should always remember that he is not 
working for to-day and to-morrow, but 
for weeks and months ahead. 
We publish an article upon that old- 
fashoned but ever favoured shrub the 
Oleander. It retains its popularity in 
spite of the poisonous properties that 
prejudice a good many nervous people. 
What is said of the garden is equally 
true of the orchard, which means instead 
of the spade and the fork, the horse and 
the cultivator must be kept going as fre- 
seasonable advice is the proper methods 
of packing fruit for export, Orchardists 
cannot learn too much upon this- phase 
of profits, Nothing will break the profits 
quicker in the whole year’s work than a 
bad finish in the marketing. 
Our dairy notes are well timed and the 
paragraph dealing with insanitary sheds 
will appeal to any dairyman with a spark 
of common sense, and after all this com- 
mon sense is tha most valuable asset in 
any dairy. 
Attention is directed in the poultry 
yard to the parasite which causes scaly 
legs, kerosene washing being the best cure. 
We also commence an article of vital im- 
portance to all poultry breeders and 
consumers, relative to the disease of pul- 
monary tuberculosis. People are not 
sufficiently alive to the insidiousness - of 
this diseae and too much care cannot be 
exercised by those who have to do with 
birds and animals. 
Everything on the farm is now dry, 
dry as dust, and the animals are the first 
to show the serionsness of the position, 
apart from the enormous price of food 
in the way of bran and. chaff and other 
articles of food ; the paper by Mr Dowling 
upon ensilage is therefore very timely. 
He draws his own conclusions of its value 
and the method of obtaining it from his 
own experieuce and it is therefore well 
worth perusing to those who dread the 
coming of summer, and now feel the 
pinch of poverty in feed. 
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