Edition 7, September 2008

Breeding Stud Sheep

Murray Long

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Breeding Stud Sheep shows how to establish and manage a successful sheep stud. All aspects of stud breeding are covered, including where and how to buy your sheep, selecting the right breeding stock for your stud, flock management, nutrition, disease, lambing problems, showing sheep, promotion and marketing, and selling stud genetics. The detailed step-by-step strategies will give the reader the ability to develop alternative approaches that best suit their situation.

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Dry Gardening Australia

Jonathon Garner

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Sustainable drought-proof gardening from the soil up. These days water shortages are a fact of life, so we all need to look at ways of saving water while continuing to grow beautiful gardens. In Dry Gardening Australia, you'll learn how to improve your soil and grow water-efficient plants so that your garden will flourish, whatever your climate or garden style. With Jonathon Garner's expert advice, step-by-step techniques, helpful hints and planting guides for four different climate types, you can establish a smart, water-efficient garden in only three years.

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Glossary of Agricultural Terms

NSW Agriculture

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Like any subject with a long history, agriculture has its own confusing, complex and contradictory terms. Anyone who grows up in the industry, absorbs these terns through their skin. But for those entering rural life for the first time by buying a farm, or by moving to a country town, difficulties abound. This booklet is designed to help, not add to your confusion. It has tried to demystify the terms used in agriculture by explaining them in simple English. They are not strictly dictionary definitions as many of the terms don't appear in dictionaries.

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The Wine Drinkers Guide to the Vineyard

David Jackson

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The aim of this book is to provide the serious wine aficionado with the information needed to appreciate the contribution of the particular features of the vineyard to wine quality. The topics covered range from discovering our taste buds and the aroma of wines, to grape varieties and clones, an explanation of soils, climate, terroir, light, pests and diseases, pruning and training to the human influences on viticulture. Included are chapters on six men who had a considerable influence on the development of the wine industries in their various countries and internationally: Stephen Skelton in England, Richard Smart and Peter Dry in Australia, Andrew Reynolds in Canada, Glen Creasy in New Zealand, and Danny Schuster in the United States and Europe.

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How to build Animal Housing

Carol Ekarius

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This publication will help you evaluate the housing needs of your animals and provides 60 plans for portable shelters, backyard pens, coops and hutches, barns of all sizes, stables, large and small, windbreaks, shade structures, as well as plans for essential equipment.
If you care about your animals and want the very best for them, How to Build Animal Housing is the book for you.

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Culpeppers Colour Herbal

Edited by David Potterton

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This is the essence of Nicholas Culpeppers' work on herbal medicine. The editor, David Potterton has retained the famous herbalist's caustic comments about the ignorance and deceits of the physicians of his day. The editor has also retained many of Culpepper's colourful description of herbs, and in each case, his understanding of their medicinal virtues, but has also included the present-day uses of herbs in the light of modern herbal practice and research. It is interesting to note how many herbs used in Culpepper's time still occupy a prominent position in herbal dispensaries today.

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