The Farm.-- Live Fences.-- No. I.
OF all the plagues that annoy the farmer bad fences are decidedly the greatest. Between rotten rails and unscrupulous neighbours the farmer who honestly desires to keep his own live…
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Farming & the land, 1867
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The Principal Items of Farming News From the Old Country
THE British farmer is assuredly beginning to assert himself and his rights in a manner he never did before. Cold, changeable, uncertain February gives him little to do…
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NEARLY everyone has his own system of dressing seed-wheat. One insists upon the merits of lime and water alone, if sufficient to bear up an egg. Another also uses lime,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Price of Wheat. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
SIR, -- If you would permit me to correct an error, or misstatement, which appeared in a paragraph in your paper of the 29th instant, wherein you say the highest price for wheat in Yass is 3s. 3d. I may…
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London, April 26. -- Since last sales little business transacted; and except much improvement occurs in home and export trade, a serious decline is anticipated for medium and faulty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmyard Manure and How to Use It
IN no other country perhaps, excepting in Victoria, has farmyard manure ever been voted a nuisance, to be got rid of by burning or by tossing it into a creek or watercourse, as convenience happened…
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FROM our recent quotation from the London Economist, on the question raised in a paper by Mr. Hope, on the "comparative advantages of cattle and sheep as grazers,"…
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SIR,—Thinking that some of your readers may find useful information in the accompanying letter, sent to me from Germany, by Mr. Thomas Holt, of this city, I crave…
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MR. JOHN LAWRIE, of Alma Plains, has communicated to us (South Australian Register) the following paper on Dairy Farming, which we have great pleasure in publishing, and earnestly…
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AS sheep are now commonly kept by farmers in the oldest settled districts, and have thus become part of the regular farm stock, their welfare must receive at all hands much greater…
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THE supplying of milk to large towns is occupying the attention of influential bodies of men in Europe, and although the results of their investigations are not yet made public,…
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pial wool sales commenced on May 16, and concluded June 28. They comprised 180,391 bales. The attendance of buyers during the first two or three sales was fair, but hardly equal to an…
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AT the Police Court, Goulburn, on September 4, Gabriel Izzard was brought up on suspicion of being connected with the stealing of twenty-seven head of cattle, the property of Mr. E. Ryan, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Production of Wool in New South Wales. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
DEAR SIR.--As the quality of the wool we are producing is every day becoming of more importance to us all than the weight of carcase (or Fenian disturbances). I think you would confer a benefit on…
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THERE are proper seasons for every description of work connected with the farm, and the time for salting butter is not even excepted, as it is a well-known fact that if…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prospects of the Farmers
THE present prospects of the farmer in this colony do not appear to be very bright. The harvest of the year was generally speaking more than an average one; in some parts it exceeded not only the…
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If farming is to be carried on with profit, there must be the continual outlay of capital in permanent improvements, or in manures, &c. The practical…
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LONDON, JULY 31.--One chief element to a satisfactory trade, viz., confidence, is still wanting, and will probably remain so for some time to come, as it cannot possibly return as long as the…
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To wash wool on the sheep's back beautifully clean, and yet not to injure the animal, is an act of somewhat difficult attainment; but once attained, it is as simple as any other of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Notes
1. Dung heaps are, in my opinion, breeding places for tho insect tribe ; not so shed manure, . constantly trampled- upon by cattle—it is far too pungent for any living thing to exist or breed it…
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