The Education of Farmers
"FARMING, or the science of agriculture, can only be learned by practice; for if any business can be called practical it is the cultivation of the soil." Very little has been said…
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Farming & the land, 1865
58 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3
The Farm.--notes on the Month
THE Australian farmers are not alone in having to contend with a most disastrous season--from Europe and America we have accounts of long-continued droughts, affecting the wheat crops and the…
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THE Australian farmers are not alone in having to contend with a most disastrous season-from Europe and America we have accounts of long-continued droughts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Management.—butter or Cheese
BEFORE entering on extensive dairy operations, with, of course, a view to the highest rate of profit, it is very necessary to understand what are the proportionate yields of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diseases of Sheep
THE spread of disease amongst sheep, and the appearance of at least one new form of disease within the last few years, are circumstances which ought to command serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
WE have need to assimilate our methods of cultivation to those which prevail in climates resembling our own. This great fact has been long in coming home to us, and a most extraordinary tenacity is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool
The wool sales commenced on the 11th of May. Total arrivals, 163,724 bales. The prices obtained were from one penny to three half-pence below the dearer part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming—past and Present
IT is a frequent observation that "we are now in the transition state," but we are to have been (as far as regards farming) a long time in the chrysalis form. This may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm.--notes on the Month. (From the Australasian.)
WE have need to assimilate our methods of cultivation to those which prevail in, climates resembling our own. This great fact has been long in coming home to us, and a most extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Punch’s Pastoral to Geoff-ey-ea-ar
DEAR GEOFF—EY,—You have been exalted and humiliated—petted and punished —howled for, and howled at, in a truly democratic manner for the past two or three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nature and Causes of Rot in Sheep
ROT is known in the south-western districts of England under the provincial names of bane and coathe. It consists in the maturation within the liver and biliary passages of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sheep Grazing Question. Adjourned Public Meeting
The adjourned public meeting, which was to be had to receive the report of the signature collectors, took place on Saturday last, at the Commercial Hotel, at seven o’clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improved Mode of Sheep Washing
In a late number of the Ararat and Pleasant Creek Advertiser we find a communication from G. H. M., Ledcourt Station. describing a mode of tilting sheep into a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
WE find that mangolds are coming more into cultivation hero, their high nutritive value causing them to be estimated far before turnips, though in the light soils of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Enterprise
ALL who have taken an interest in pastoral pursuits, or in land reform, during the last few years must remember with feelings akin to disgust the constant wailings of a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhaustive Farming
THE following portions of a paper on The Soil, read at a late meeting of the Smithfield Farmers' Club by Mr. Talbot, we extract from the Adelaide Observer. This club…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Use of Manures in Australian Farming
THE difference between the practical application of manures in Australia and their use in the cool climate of Britain may here be treated of, so as to put colonial farmers on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rust in Wheat
THE following important letter was read on Monday last at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society:— BODALLA, July 12th, 1865. To the Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Revocation of Reserves From Pastoral Lease
In the Government Gazette of the 31st ultimo, there appears the following notification. We have appended below a list of the Lands referred to in the Lachlan District :— “It is hereby notified, for general information, that His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to direct that from and after the 1st January, 1886, the several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm.—notes on the Month
THE season, though cold, has been favourable for getting on with work of all kinds, as the land could be brought into excellent tilth where it is in course of preparation for root crops and for late crops of…
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