Sheep Farming
The main thing in the profitable management of sheep is to keep them in such a manner as to ensure rapid, uninterrupted progress, Time is lost and food is wasted…
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Farming & the land, 1906
98 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 3 of 5
Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Spraying Tress
SPRAYING trees is Usually started about the time insects are expected and continued at intervale from time to time until the seeming necessity has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Ducks Profitable
DUCKS aw the easiest raised ana moat profitable. They an not halt the trouble that chickens are, they ate not subject to vermin, and are uniformly healthy…
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Husk, hoose, hask, or host, lungworm, or worm in the throut, for these are all names for the same complaint, is a most debilitating discuse, and causes great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Soil and Seed for Potatoes
IN order to raise good smooth potatoes they require suitable soil, good seed, and careful treatment. Large uniform tubers are the only quality that command…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Starting Early Tomatoes
IT is not difficult to raise good stalky tomato plants from seed if one has a fairly prepared hotbed. Fresh horse manure is preferable for such a purpose…
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To teach people how to grow things successfully, whether crops or domestic animals, is an important part of the business of the United States Department of…
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The other evening a counteyman brought his awesthsart into town to see a partor[?]ance by a well known company. Going up to the tickes offices, the girl…
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At this season of the year there will no doubt be a great many farmers who are troubled and inconvenienced to avery large extent with the presence of lice on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm ad Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Breeding Corn
THE vest possibilities of breeding corn can hardly be estimated. It would not be difficult for one man to bread a new sye, wheast, barley,. cats or rice, which…
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The normal temperature of a cow from about 100 degrees to 102.5 degs, F. When the milk is in the udder it stands at this temperature. When the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Aeticles [All Rights Reserved.] Raising a Dairy Cale
SUCCESS in growing calves, whether raised by hand or by the dam, defends very much on the care it receives daring the winter and spring. It should…
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At next year's Berry show it is proposed to include an item of £60 for a baud contest. Over 100 Angora goats are now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying in Holland
A recent visitor to Europe declared that the dairymen of Holland are the cleanest in the world. "It has been well said," he writes, "that this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Rose Comb Brown Lechorns
SO very much depends on the fancy of the breeder of poultry, local and other conditions and the particular requirements. But both profit and pleasure…
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Twenty-five head of dairy cattle have died at Narrabri from grazing on thistles. Walcha "Witness" reports that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Keeping Hogs
THE first thing to be considered is the breed of type of animal desired. If an early maturity and easily fattened herd of hogs is wanted, select for fine. bone short…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ourimbah. Exceptional Orange Crop. a Winter Sunstroke. Church of England Concert a Rumpled Collar
The weather continues dry and frost[?] Rain is needed, may of the tanks being empty. The orange crops are very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Cows: the Ayrshire
The Ayrshire is a 'model' breed in both senses of the wotd—fot it gives you the ideal form of a cw, and it i the cow rather . too mach in miniature to be satisfactory to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Artioles. Methods of Grafting Trees and Shrubs
THE methods of grafting which will be found most useful are cleft, whip and side; while, at this season, every furit-grower should know how to bridge-graft…
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