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QUERIES.—Readers are invited to send 
us queries on any matters on which ‘they 
want information. No charge is made for 
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES.—The queries 
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the subjects, but at the same time we shall 
be glad to receive answers to any published 
from readers who caa give the information 
asked for. Our aim is to get our readers 
to help one another, and no one is better 
able to help a small gardener than another 
owner of a small garden. who has gained 
experience in dealing with the many diffi- 
culties that have to be faced. 
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‘Farn cr’—Yes, the same treatment 
will do fur English barley. 
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‘ Feeder. ’—Lucerne hay and little grain 
will bring your flock through in good 
condition, 
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‘Townie ’— We don’t know whether ‘it 
would pay you to grow your own potatoes. 
There woula be no harm in trying, 
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‘Bushman’— Honey should be strained ag 
it comes from the extractor, and after- 
wards skimmed, when any impurities 
come to the top. The honeycomb must 
be uncapped Lefore it is extracted. Special 
knives are made for the purpose, and 
centrifugal vessels are mad for extracting. 
June, 1910 
If you cannot obtain them locally Write 
to any Brisbane firm shat keeps bee- 
keepers’ requisites, 
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‘Butter ’—1. Croam should be sourep ata 
temperature of 66 deg. or 70 deg, Fahren- 
heit. 2, When cream iskept at a high 
temperature for along time tee butter 
will haveau old flavour. 3. The time 
cream takes to churn depends upon five 
things—the ripenese of the cream, the 
temperature of the cream, the percentage 
of butterfat, and the length of time the 
cows have been imilking, and the 
kind of feed the cows are being fed. It 
should take from 15 to 30 minutes to 
churn a batch of butter. 
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‘A. Jackson ’—Huving missed the autumn 
sowing for rape, it would be vdvisable to 
wait until September before sowing, You 
might get a crop if seeding were done 
now, but under ordinary conditions seed 
sown in September would catch up to 
June seed. You stand a better chance of 
getting a crop if oats are sown, Rape or 
thousand-headed kale will give you good 
summer feed for your skeep. In‘ The 
Australasian ’ recently several references 
have been made to the cultivation Of 
kale, based upon the experience of sheop- 
breeders, 
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Alice (Wallaroo).—Lucarne does not 
derive its name from the Swiss canton, 
Lucerne. The plant was cultivated in 
France, and also in England, before it 
was known there, | Its first habitat was 
Central Asia, It is thought that the 
name lucerne ‘was derived from the 
Spanish word uzerdas, whieh the French 
changed to la cuzerdo. and later to 
luzerne, still later to lizerne, and then to 
lucerne. It was introduced into America 
by the Spanish, and was known as 
lucerne in the country before the name 
alfalfa’ was applied. The pronunciation 
of the word, according to the ‘Century 
Dictionary,’ is lu-cern, with the u sound 
open but light, as in ‘education’ and 
‘singular,’ 
E. BLACKEBY, 
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, 
226 Rundle Street, Adelaide, 
Cut Soles a Speciality. 
