Hornless Cattle
It is a good thing to have cattle without horns, why grow the horns at all? For many years my father never raised a calf that had horns. The operation of removing them…
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Farming & the land, 1889
162 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 9
The London Wool Market. London
London wool exports say that wool, will remain firm during 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FARM & GARDEN. Summer pruning
Heavy summer pruning, or looping off leaves and branches after a good growth has been made always cheeks more or less the vigor of the plant, and if the rubbing off the…
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One part coarse salt, two of lime, and two of good wood ashes mixed thoroughly together makes one of the very best mixtures to apply around fruit trees in the…
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OF all classes in the community the farmers have undoubtedly been the greatest sufferers from the severe drought which has visited the Bathurst district, in common with the other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. the London Wool Market
Messrs Daig[?]ty and Co. report under da[?] London, 30th November:—The begining of the fifth series of London Colonial Wool Sales, which had been fixed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. Aid to Farmers. (To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press.)
Sir,—I read with pleasure your sub-leader on "Aid to Farmers " this morning, as I have thought seriously of late what could be done to assist the struggling farmer ? We have had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Supposition. 'Suthin' in the pastoral line.' [?]
He had been trying all the winter through To speak the fateful words; and well she know He had been trying—but what could she do I Most maidenly of little maids was she,…
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The Home and Farm gives the following novel method of making cabbage head; it says that when the plants are about eight inches high and have formed woody stalks, make…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seed Wheat and Protection
Mr. D'Hudson's letter is more closely connected with the fiscal question than appears at firs sight. It the letter he argues that many of the crops this season will not pay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and Comments. Government Grant of Seed Wheat
IN another column we publish a letter from Mr. Edward D'Hudson, addressed' to the farmers of the district, in which he urges that combined action should be taken, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions of our correspondents.] to My Brother Farmers. (Per favour of the Molong Express.)
GENTLEMEN,—As you are aware to your bitter sorrow, the past harvest has been a lamentable failure, the earth in many oases not having returned to the sower even the seed the he sowed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. D'Hudson and Seed Wheat
IN another column we publish a letter from Mr. D'Hudson, in reply to the comments wo made in our last issue on this subject. Those remarks were not made by us with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About the Wheat. (To the Editor of the Molong Express)
SIR,—In our issue of February 2nd I have noticed your comments on my letter to my brother farmers. In the first place you say, speaking of the dole of reheat, "The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FARM & GARDEN. Experience With Incubators
A correspondent at Niles, Cal., writes as follows: As the season of incubation work is now approaching, I enclose some of the results of the past season's work. In a room…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bathurst Free Press “Magna est veritas et prœvalebit.” Saturday, February 9, 1889. Protection an Enemy to the Farmer
DISSATISFIED with the result of their appeal to the centres of manufacturing industry, the protectionists, whoso aim hitherto has been to prove that the main object of protection is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of Farmers
THE meeting of farmers convened for Saturday last was well attended. The chair was occupied by the Mayor, and there were also in attendance Dr. Ross, Messrs. Black, Peterson, G. H…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FARM & GARDEN. Saving Seed
Farmers and gardeners should attend to saving their own seed remembering in the election that the rule that like produce like applies in the vegetable world as well…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports. Straying Cattle
From the Inspector of Nuisances, in reply to a letter and petition presented at last meeting wherein ratepayers complained of his action in impounding cattle off the street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Brands and Marks
The sheep brands and marks of the undermentioned owners in the Bathurst district have been published in tho Gazette: Appa James, Vale Road, Bathurst…
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