Butter Exportation to England
ENCOURAGED by the success which has attended the exportation of Australian meat to England, an attempt is about to be made (says the ARGUS) to place Victorian butter…
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Farming & the land, 1882
31 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
The Biggest Farm in the World
WE hear a great deal respecting the immense tracts of land held by our leading squatters, and which are frequently cited as showing the inefficiency of our land laws in preventing vase districts falling into the hands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer's Hired Man
"I'M kinder lookin' around the market for a hired man," he exclaimed as he stopped at one of the stands, and nibbled at an onion. "I kinder need one, and yet I kinder hope I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manuring the Wheat Field
IN England the quantity of superphosphate usually used on light clay land is intended for wheat. It is recognised that the quantity that can be used with profit depends much on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Largest Farm in the World
AT Fargo, in the United Stales of America, is a farm forty-live miles long and one mile wide, all cultivated under the supervision of one man. The produce of this enormous area last season…
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AN experiment of great interest to flockmasters throughout Austra in is (says the ARGUS) now being carried out by Messrs. M'Farland Brothers, of Barago, New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Archbishop M'cabe's Pastoral
A PASTORAL letter from Archbishop M'Cabe was read in the churches of his diocese, in which he referred to the state of the country. He said that centuries of wrong had done…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Profitable Farming
It has frequently been stated in print and otherwise that it is unwise for the farmer to attempt "to carry all his eggs in one basket." Grazing and farming so naturally help each other that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electrical Sheep Shears
MR Edison has referred to the Scientific American a communication from New Zealand, in which the writer sets forth at length the pressing need of some means of shearing sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rust and Smut in Wheat
THE following letter appears in the Inverell Argus:— To farmers.—As the last two years have been particularly dry and you, therefore, have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The sixteenth annual exhibition under the auspices of this Society was hold nil the grounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, and taking into consideration the facts that the Show this year was fixed nearly three weeks…
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THE Annual Exhibition, thE sixteenth held by the Society, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather was line up to 4 p.m. of the second day, when light rain set in which the majority of those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Deep Ploughing Dangerous "—Crops Saved—noteworthy Experience. [By an Iowa Parmer.]
WHEN on an custom farm, some twenty yours ago nearly all my neighbours, like myself, fully believed it was dangerous to the crop to run the plough deeper than 4in. or 5 in. But an editorial in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Something Like a Cattle Farm
A big cattle farm is thus described by the Denver Republican :—"..Tho ranches of Cattle- King Powers, all making up a river frontage of eighteen miles and including a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Section II.—CATTLE
Judged—Messrs A. Stewart, F. Fredericks, S. Shanley, H. Rapp, T.G. Hewitt. DURHAM OR SHORTHORNS. Bull, 2 years and under 3years—Messrs Fanning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Hint in Salting Butter
PROF. ARNOLD says that the best rule for salting butter is to salt to suit the taste of the customer. There is no use in applying any particular amount of salt for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Experiments to Check Rust in Wheat
IN a paper read before the Millicent Farmers' Mutual Association by Mr R. A. Perkins of the Experimental Farm, near Mount ambier, Victoria, giving an account of various [?]tural experiments in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weather and Crops
THE Manning River Times says,—We have had some fine rains, which has thoroughly saturated the ground. A correspondent writes from the Upper Manning:— "Mr John Sullivan, of Westwood, will have the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Neglected Grain Crop
AMONG what may be termed "outside crops." says the Melbourne Leader, is one which we think might be cultivated with profit. We allude to rye. It is because our farmers know so little about it that it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judging Cattle by "Touch"
IT is no uncommon thing for old colonists, whose experiences in cattle have been solely confined to bush herds, to ridicule the idea of touch or handling, as a means of judging the…
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