August 1, 1908 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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‘*Proputty, Proputty sticks.” 
Thus sings Tennyson’s ‘‘ Northern Farmer,” hearing the refrain in the hoof-beats of his. 
horse. 
YOU CANNOT DO BETTER than invest your surplus funds in land. Australia is on ¢ : : 
his chances now will regret it in a few years time. Pe ARTES GAN ES G8 TREES 
HERE IS A BLOCK WORTH BUYING— ‘ 
PROSPECT.—20 acres, suitable for sub-division, price £1,000, and easy terms can be made. 
ANOTHER— 
CAMBELLTOWN DISTRICT—30 acres, 5-roomed house, £1,100. 
COUNTRY LANDS, including 14,926 acres Cooke’s Plains, 6,621 acres Goonal 
Peninsula (in lots), 110 acres, 4 miles from City, with Orangery, etc. 
pyn. 1,853 acres Pinnaroo, 5,000 acres Yorke’s 
INVESTMENTS, including 5 new City Cottagos, £1,550, returning 8 per cent. net; 2 Houses, £725; and many others 
CALL AND SEE ME, 
x. E. POWELL, wanp scent, 
No. 2 (Basement) National Mutual Buildings, King William Street, Adelaide. 
(NEXT BANK OF ADELAIDE). 
Nowhere on earth do neat. cleanly, and 
orderly ideas of doing work pay better 
than ona dairy farm. The men who follow 
clean ideas and methods make the most 
out of their labors. 
The milking shorthorn is not to be 
castinto outer darkness just because of 
the prejudice of a few wise men 
Go to the 
Dimend Sbudias 
For Good Work and Up-to-dato Photo- 
graphs, which include 
POST CARDS from 5s per doz. 
PARIS PANELS, 15s per doz. 
CABINETS from 10s 6d per doz., in- 
cluding a beautiful enlargement 12 x 10. 
BRIDAL GROUPS & FAMILY GROUPS. 
Our Picture Frames are the Best and 
Cheapest in the City for Artistic Mouldings, 
and an unlimited supply of colored Plates, 
Engravings, Etchings, etc,, at the most 
Reasonable and Ridiculous Prices eve: 
offered. | i 
<a 
Nort Apprass— 
DIMOND BROS., 
150 Rundle Street. 
Better study your incubator and tho- 
roughly understand its workings before 
putting eggs into it. Ignorance has 
caused many-amateurs disappointment, 
Robert Hill, 
Chaff and Grain Merchant 
64 CURRIE STREET, Adelaide. 
Bran, Pollard, Oats, Wheat 
Chick Meal, and all kinds of 
Poultry Food 
AT LOWEST MARKED RATES. 
Telephone 1250. 
“Australian - 
Gardener” Office, 
Corner Pirie & Wyatt Sts. 
Send us along a trial order. 
sonally by the Principal. 
TELEPHONE 1136. 
Vegetable pathologists, in selecting 
wheat varieties, breed the new stack not 
only from one plant but from one ear 0 
one plant The best from the best plant 
is chosen, and after the seed from it has 
been planted selectton is continued 
throngh subsequent generations. 
The potato was. originally called ‘ ba- 
tata” by the Indians, but usage produced 
the present name. 
Trials have been made to test the in- 
fluence of age, and it would appear that 
young cows yield richer milk rhan old 
animals, and that cows of from five to six 
years produce an average quality. 
It is the ill-conditioned members of the 
flock or herd which cause the greatest 
loss and trouble in the management. 
Muirden College, 
CURRIE STREET. 
TELEPHONE 1,502, 
‘W. MULRDEN, Prrincreau. 
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS, 
SPEOIAL EVENING CLASSES are 
being formed, and will be conducted per- 
: Join without 
delay. 
Send for particulars to the College, and 
lose no time in joining one or other of the. 
Classes if you would ensure success. 
