THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER.. 
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Genuine B.S.A. Bearings, Hadie Coaster and Free Wheel, 
Renold’s Chain, Brooks’ Saddle, Dunlop Oceanic Tyres, Reversible 
Handle Bars, any height frame and any color enamel. 
, cation. 
‘ONLY £10 10s. 
Reinforced Concrete Silo. 
This silo is designed to be constructed 
almost entirely of steel, barbed wire, and 
-cement concrete. The standards or up- 
rights are of 2 inches by 2 Inches T 
‘section ‘steel bars, tied horizontally with 
fiat bars, locked’ to the uprights, and with 
barbed wire, secured to the uprights by 
strong wire ties ‘The concrete should he 
of coarse sand and cement, in the propor- 
tion of 3 of sand to ] of cement, and 
should be ‘run into moulds in position. 
It is estimated that-the rate of progress 
in construction would be 3 feet per day, 
‘so'that nine or ‘ten days would suffice’ to 
‘fill in the concrete when the framework 
is in position. The whole°of the roof may 
be removed in sections quite easily, and 
replaced without trouble, thus: enabling 
the structure to be completely filled 
before putting on the-roof, ‘When the 
concrete:is once set the silo is indestruc- 
“tible, neither fire, weather, nor insects 
‘being able'to make any impression on it. 
In districts -where coarse ‘sand is easily 
obtained it can be erected quite as:cheaply 
as if of wood. ‘On many farms~a suitable 
position can’ be found on a’slope of ground 
convenient ‘to the homestead on which ° 
‘the silo could! be erected, loaded‘ from-a 
wagon iat thestop, and emptied on the 
lower side, ‘the ‘concrete making this 
-quite:possible; when with’ timber it would 
-be.impossible.—Queensland Agricultural 
-Journal. 
The United States Bureau of Animal 
“Industries ‘has ‘been enquiring into the 
~presence of tuberculosis in various ‘herds 
-of cattle, and has published the following 
results :—Percentage ‘Affected: Jerseys, 
154; Aberdeen-Angus, 28 ; Ayrshire, 24 ; 
‘Shorthorn, 23 ;°Red‘Poll, 7. : 
June 1, 1908 
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The ENGINE TESTS recently held resulted in the Celebrated 
‘N.S.U. MOTOR ‘CYCLES being FIRST, SECOND, and 
THIRD out of thirteen competitors, 
Australian Automobile Ciub’s Annual Hill Climb, when we 
also secured Fastest Time for the Second Year in succession. 
This Contest is the Only Motor Cycle Engine Test that has 
This was at the South 
been held in South Australia this year. Wecan prove this, 
EYES & CROWLE, 125 and 127 Pirie St, Adelaide. 
ST nt Race enten tinrnen, 
Gleanings. - 
Does a horse pull or push a cart? Sir 
Oliver Lodge says he really pushes it, 
because his head is put into a collar, and 
the motive power is gained by pushing. 
If the destruction of weeds is done when 
they are small they are then out of the 
way before they can harm the crops and 
soil. 
The medium pig, neither too big or too 
small, is the aim of the wise man who 
raises for market. 
Wheat bran is good, and will warn off 
costieviress in sows; this is common when 
they are feverish. 
The poor man’s cow, as somebody has 
called the goat, shotld be a common 
object in small'holdings. Goat’s milk is 
said'to be always! free from tuberculosis, 
and rats will not keep company with 
goats. ‘Two recommendations for the 
animal. 
Depopulation? Ata village near Exeter 
‘the wife ofa farm labourer has just given 
‘birth to her twenty-second child. Allthe 
Gon aro alive and doing exceedingly 
well. 
‘It should be rememibered that the lime 
-when in its caustic or quick state, has the 
‘most power in producing chemical and 
physical changes in the soil. 
‘The aim should be to get the lime into 
‘the soil in its active state, and have it 
thoroughly incorporated before it.has had 
va‘chance ‘to lose any of its active prin. 
ciples. 
A' litter of young pigs every six months 
‘allows the requisite sixteen weeks for 
gestation, nine weeks ‘for suckling, and 
fora visit to’the boar. 'This.makes up 
the twenty-six weeka, and thus every half 
year the sow ‘contributes “a ‘litter to the 
sstock of the: farm.or.breeder’s animals, 
It is reported that 15,000 wild horses 
in Nevada are to be destroyed in conse- 
quence of the injury they do to the young 
forests. 
“Good wine needs no bush.” but mar- 
garine and milk blended butter require 
all kinds of attractive names to catch the 
public. 
A good sow should not be brod until 
she is reasonably matured, and generally 
the safe rule to follow is to let her be a 
year old when she farrows her first litter. 
The kind of seed that will make the 
biggest yield should be selected from tho 
hardiest fields, those producing the 
heaviest yields, one year with another, 
under ordinary conditions. A, 
More work on the land will make more 
plant food available for the crop season. 
A truck load of cattle with uniform 
style, size, and markings will outsell a 
mixed lot. Itis the same with pigs—a 
truckload of even, good-quartered, com- 
pact, well-arched, broad-backed, deep 
bodied hogs will outsell any mixed mess 
of the decendants of the crossbreds 
scrubs, 
‘Many people forget that the horn grows 
and expands, whilst the iron of’ the shoe 
does not, and this is the case more 
‘particularly with young’ horses. 
‘Although pigs like to wallow in slush in 
warm weather, they require a dry sleep- 
iing place to keep them in good. health, 
and, as they feel the cold acutely, it is 
vabsolutely necessary that' they should ‘be 
| protected from cold and damp, 
‘The man ‘who Is ‘careless about ‘his 
‘harness'and who-allows his‘horse to drive 
himself, swillispoil‘any -animal, ‘and is :as 
likely to end) up' by letting the horse down 
asnot; but this observationmust mot "be 
taken: as suggesting that a:‘driver should 
aenee ‘be “fidgeting «and worrying ‘his 
MLOTSO, Hi 
Ol 
