Advice to Farmers
FARMERS who grow maize in these colonies will be interested to learn that it can be cultivated so as to materially enrich the soil. A farmer in Ohio, in a paper read before a local Agricultural…
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Farming & the land, 1875
66 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
Cutting Steaks From Live Cattle
SIR Samuel Baker is the authority for the following story.—"The great traveller, Bruce, was discredited for having described a fact of which he was eyewitness. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Fanning, Griffiths, and Co.'s Australian Wool Market Report
THE most impo[?]ant transactions in the colonial wool markets are now over, and the large business which has been done this season for American and European account gives evidence of the extensive direct trade…
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THE ninth annual Exhibition of the Clarence Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society, was held on the Society's Grounds, Grafton Racecourse, on Wednesday and Thursday last. As usual, on the first…
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A FURTHER serious decline in prices at the commencement of the London February sales has added another to the many examples of the fallacy of the one market system, and furnishes a better and more convincing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales Wool Exported From Other Colonies. (From the Herald)
ONE of our correspondents writes:— "A friend, fond of figures, writing from the Upper Darling, says that nearly 14,000 [?] of wool, grown on that river, went to…
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IT is just likely (writes ' Anglo.Australian ' in the ' European Mail') that some American potatoes may find their way to your shores, vin San Francisco. It may be well to warn you…
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THE systematic manner in which what we call insignificant industries are worked in America is instructive. The following clipping from the 'Western Farmer' about bee farming may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Notes. the Brands Acr
IT may be Interesting to our renders to learn that a Bill is proposed to be brought before Parliament, at an early date, to prevent the straying and stealing of stock, which Bill is now befere the various Boards of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anew Breed of Sheep
THE Town and Country Journal, 15th April, says:— The sheep (of which we give a portrait in this week's issue) is an imported Lincoln rain, the property of Mr R. Dawbin, of Victoria, and now to be seen in…
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THE report adopted at the annual general meeting of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, held at Brisbane in March last, deserves. I think, a passing notice, as showing what promising results have been achieved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Learn Farming
A "YOUNG MAN" would know how and where he can learn to he a farmer. Now, this question is one that is often presented to us, and in part it is one easily answered. Farming is an art…
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CONCERNING this valuable breed of sheep, which are well adapted for our low-lying coast lands, and which have been introduced into Queensland with considerable success, an exchange says:—"These sheep…
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TO PRODUCE new varieties of wheat, the celebrated botanist, London, says:—"The ordinary mode is to select from a field a spike or spikes from a stalk that has the qualities sought for such as larger grains,…
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MR O'RYAN, of Woolert, writing to the Queenslander, says:—Most farmers are fond of new wheat, yet, if you ask them why, they cannot tell you; they can assign no reason why new wheat is preferable to old,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Notes. Notes on Fruit-growing, &c
A STRANGER taking his walks abroad around Grafton cannot but notice the number of fruit trees planted in the gardens and orchards, more especially those of the orange species, many of which are of good size, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Notes. Notes on Orange Growing
IN continuation of my remarks of last week respecting the orange, perhaps I may he permitted to give the result of the experience of various persons (including myself) more fully, especially as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Judge Wool on a Live Sheep
THE New York Herald says.—The finest and softest wool is always found on the shoulders of the sheep. But not one person in ten thousand is aware of this fact. Let us watch an expert when he is about to…
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AT a meeting of the Vermont Formers' Association an interesting discussion was raised as to the advantage of heating milk for butter-making. A Mr Cheever stated that he had successfully carried on the practice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Notes. Semi-tropical Agriculture
I HAVE had much pleasure in looking over a new work just put forth by the editor of the Queenslander (Mr Angus Mackay), entitled "The Semi-tropical Agriculturist, and Colonist's Guide," which is a…
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