Facts for Farmers
THE hoove is the distension of the rumen of cattle by the gases, produced by the fermentation of food. The effects of eating too freely of clover or other green food are often…
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Farming & the land, 1871
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Facts for Farmers
A VERY important piece of information is given in the Silk Supply Journal for January 10th, in a paper entitled "Hints to Colonists on the Cultivation of Silk Worms,"…
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A MEETING of the committee of the above association was held on Saturday last at the Courthouse. Mr. Cottrell was voted to the chair. Owing to the wet weather, the only members…
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THE early part of this week was warm and sunny, the weather resembling more that of advanced spring than the winter we may fairly expect to have upon us at the end of an…
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THE Yass Agricultural and Pastoral Association, by publishing a proposed prize-list for 1872, and by arranging for a reasonable delay previous to its adoption, have, as we…
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THE agricultural college of the state of Michigan, is said to be one of the most practical and useful institutions of its kind ever founded. The professors are practical men,…
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WE need hardly say that in dry seasons water furrows are not required. This being the case, and the three subsequent seasons having proved dry ones, last winter, with its ex[?]ssive amount…
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THE branch steamer, Rangatira, reached Glenelg on Sunday evening, with the South Australian portion of the English mails. The P. and O. Co.'s R. M. steamer, Rangoon,…
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A MEETING of the committee of the above association was held at the Court-house on Saturday last, for the purpose of finally considering the prize list for the exhibition to be hold next year…
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MANY mistakes are made in ringing trees, and much labour is thrown away in consequence of those who are employed to do it not understanding that it is necessary to do…
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A GENTLMAN of great experience in farming matters, speaking in reference to the most suitable horse for farm-work, says:—A thoroughbred race-horse of bone and…
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THE failure of the late harvest has been a grievous loss to the husbandman of Victoria, and yet even this great adversity may and ought to be turned to profitable account…
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IN balancing the relative attractiveness of different districts for farming purposes, the soil is not so much to be considered as railroads, local roads, water-carriage, growing towns,…
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THERE are very few stations or farms without an odd corner of waste land never utilised in any way, and fit for neither grain, grass, nor grapes. Many such a spot might be covered…
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The second series of sales terminated on the 13th. Competition was spirited and advanced prices were maintained to the close. More than 190,000 bales were disposed of. Fully…
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LAST week we visited the farm. How good the ground smelled! How a thing smells depends much on the imagination; but not altogether. When gas-pipes are repairing,…
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EXTRACTING stumps is rather heavy business; and waiting for their natural decay is very slow. It is said that their decay may be greatly hastened by boring a hole in the…
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The second series of colonial wool sales closed on May 16. There was a good attendance of the home and continental trade throughout. Prices showed a hardening…
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STRAW as fodder from the leading grain crops ranks as follows—the best first:—Oat, barley, wheat, rye., It is doubtful whether there is a better root than the potato for…
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A LABOR number of sheep have died recently in various parts of Devon and Cornwall in a mysterious fashion. Mr. Carew, of Antony, having lost fourteen, the attention of Mr…
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