Orchards, Gardens, Orangeries, &e. 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
‘July 1, 1908 
We have a Splendid Selection of Really Good Payable Properties, some with Grand River 
Frontages and Irrigation Plants. 
Also Good Lucerne and Dairy Properties, 
ae Also a number of Choice City and Suburban Residences, some of the latter with few acres 
attached, 
Clients driven to inspect, free cf charge. 
‘PRIEST & JAMES, ~ 
SO Piw~ri 
_ The character of the cow has ‘more to 
do with the quantity and quality of the 
milk than-the actual amount of concen- 
‘trated food in the daily ration, so long as 
the cows receive enough to keep them in. 
thriving condition, It is a mistake to 
suppose that, once this limit is reached, 
an increase in the concentrated food 
results in a permanent increase and im- : 
provement in the milk, It may indeed 
haye the opposite effect. 
In milk we find two classes of flavours, 
yiz., food and contamination. Those fla 
vours of different foods fed to cows, which © 
milk absorbs from the animal before the 
milk is drawn, are known as food flayours 
and are always more pr¢ 
time of milking. 
Contamination flavours are those which 
gain access to milk after it leaves the udder 
of the cow. These are of two kinds; one 
is due to flavours of certain substances 
which are absorbed by the milk after 
milking, while the other is due to the 
milk being directly infected with bacteria - 
which also takes place some time subse- 
quent to milking, se 
All manure and liquid should be re- 
moved from the stable or milking shed — 
immediately after milking is finished. To 
facilitate easy and thorough cleaning, 
the floors should be constructed of con- 
crete. ok : : 
pronounced at the 
LAND AGENTS, : 
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TELEPHONE 1817. 
All dairy utensils should have as few 
corners as possible. In this respect the 
small cans with cone-shaped necks are 
the hardest to keep clean, 
Horse breeding in Jamaica was carried 
on with vigour and success for a long 
period, When the prosperity of the island — 
was at its height there was at Pepper 
Penn one of the largest breeding studs in 
the world, numbering seyen thoroughbred _ 
stallions and over one hundred brood 
mares. 
brood mares, 
Depot for the Patent 
“CHAMPION” 
_ Shoulder Brace Corsets. 
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Health Corsets for In- 
valids, Tennis, Cycling, 
Golf and everyday wear, 
made to order. 
Also Ladies’, Gents’, 
and Maids’ Shoulder © 
Braces, 
HUTTON, 
MRS. L. 
a : a “CORSETIERE, 
13 SELBORNE CHAMBERS, PIRIE ST. 
Another stud consisted of forty 
Depot for The Improved. 
Abdominal Belts 
The Chicago City Council have decided 
to kill a million cats in the city. That’s 
one more reason why Chicago canned 
meats should be avoided, 
During the past year 3,351 tons of chaff 
and hay were exported from West Aus-: 
tralia to Victoria and New South Wales, 
where the product found profitable mar- 
kets. This is the first year the state be- 
came a caterer of farm produce to her 
sister states. 
Great Britian imports flax to the value — 
of over £3.000,000 annually, and linseed 
to the value of £3,274,000. 
My son, when you have nothing else to 
do, plant a tree, said a wise old philoso- 
pher. = 
The heart of Eclipse, the fleetest race- 
horse that ever ran in England weighed 
141b. 
Tatersalls, the High-change of Horse 
flesh, was established by Richard Tatter- 
sell near Hyde Park Corner, England, in 
1706. It was later re-established on new 
_ premises in 1865. 
Solomon had 40,000 stalls for horses for — 
his chariots and 12,000 horsemen. 
English horses were first imported into 
Jamaica about 1655, when Cromwell took 
possession of the Island; or soon after- 
wards; and fifty years later the Jamaica 
races were flourishing. 
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