Silage v. Hay for Fattening Cattle
THE latest comparative trial of silage in the fattening of cattle by the Royal Agricultural Society is recorded, by Dr. Voelcker in the society's Journal. From the same meadow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1888
90 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 5
Selected Lines. the Farmer's Seventy Years
AH! there he is, lad, at the plough; He beats the boys for work, And whatso'er the task might be, None ever saw him shirk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Potato Crop
THE summer crop this year will not total a high tonnage, but it is patent if our farmers had planted more extensively the potato product would have been an important…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maize Crop
FROM many parts of the district complaints are made of the stunted condition of the maize crop, and it has grown to an average height. The first planting is tasseling, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improving the Butter Yield
BEFORE a convention of buttermakers a dairyman in one of the eastern States of America said that he had been dairying with forty cows for twenty years, and his cows had averaged 1501b. of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prize Farm Competition
THE Victorian Minister for Agriculture offers two prizes of £50 each, and two of £25 each, for the best-managed farms in that colony. He further offers £150 for the production of a machine capable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying in the North
THE influx of a number of dairy farmers from the Illawarra districts to the Northern Rivers, particularly the Richmond, within the past couple of years, will speedily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer in Virginia and Maryland
THE British Consul at Baltimore, in a recent report on the agriculture of Virginia and Maryland, gives a very sombre picture of the position of the farmer there. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Production
A REPORT has just been issued by the Chamber of Commerce at Constantinople in which an account is given of the total annual wool production of the world, which is given at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expiration of Pastoral Leases
A SPEAKER at the Maclean meeting made some strictures on the local press for not giving due publicity to important matters affecting the public interest, instancing the omission of the refusal…
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