The Area of the Farms
THE farms of America comprise 837,628 square miles, an area nearly equal to onefourth of Europe, and larger than the four greatest European countries put together…
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Farming & the land, 1887
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Experimental Farming
THE present is an opportune time for advocating a subject that we have frequently given much prominence to in our columns, and that is the desirability of…
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MANY of our landowners are this season making concessions in the rents to their tenants, owing to the losses the latter have sustained through the floods. If this were not done, many leaseholders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Dairying Profitable
EVERY Australian farmer has an interest in the improvement of dairy stock. The cow is simply a machine by which food is turned into milk, from which butter and cheese can…
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As hinted in our last issue, the system of inducing competition amongst farmers by giving prizes for the best-managed farms could not fail to be of much utility to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Australian Farmers' Association
THE annual meetings of the South Australian Farmers' Mutual Association, held in Adelaide, have so far declared in favor of payment of members and of abolishing the auction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed New Land Laws. Deferred Payments of Pastoral Rents
THE Minister for Lands has had prepared, under the supervision of Mr. Oliver, a bill dealing with the question of pastoral rents. In the Crown Lands Act of 1884 there is a…
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Best bull, any breed—O. Hynes, 1; C. Foulkes, recommended for a special prize for a special breed. Alderneys, one-year-old bull—O. Hynes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament. by Telegram Thom Our Own Cobbespondent. Storage for Farm Produce. Sydney
IN the Assembly yesterday, consideration was given to Mr. J. E. Tonkin's (member for East Macquarie) motion, to place a sum of £20,000 on the Estimates to erect a store…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tasmanian Potato Crop
THE Launceston Daily Telegraph of April 8, says—We are informed that the potato crop in the North-Western districts is fairly good this season, but not so heavy as last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Agriculturist and Grazier. Chicory As a Crop
IN the Sydney Mail of the 22nd instant there will be found an article describing chicory growing as a profitable crop, with the experiences of a farmer who has ten acres of it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying As a Science
BEFORE the dairyman can be successful in either branch he must draw the line between the breeds that excel in yields of milk and those that give milk rich in cream. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Tariff and the Dairying Industry
A WRITER in the Ulladulla and Milton Times asks the people of his district:—"Are you doing anything in reference to the proposed tariff? I see they are alive and doing in…
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A DEPUTATION from the Horticultural Society of New South Wales waited on the Minister for Mines, to ask that a portion of the Lachlan water reserve should beo granted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence and N. C. Farmers' Association
AN extraordinary meeting of members was held at the Theatre Royal, on Tuesday last. There were present about 70 shareholders and all the members of the Board, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Pastoral Company. a Gigantic Concern
LONDON, MAY 20TH.— The first issue of £110,000 7 per cent, preference shares of the company formed for taking up the whole of Mr. C. B. Fisher's estate in Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming by Electricity
AT the usual monthly meeting of the London Farmers'-Club a paper was read by Mr. Rix, of London Colney, St. Albans, on "Harvesting," the subject being dealt with in its…
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PROVIDENCE helps those who helps them selves, and lately Providence, in the shape of a beneficient public, has been most loudly invoked to help those who, apparently, are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fattening Breeds of Cattle
IT is a much debated question which is the best fattening breed of cattle. Shorthorns and Herefords have the most advocates, while a good number hold to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pastoral Holdings of the Clarence. Area and Capabilities of Runs. The Character of Country
THE following information regarding the runs of this district will prove of interest to many of our readers. The facts as stated were elicited during the examination before…
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