Want of Uniformity in Farm Animals
Men that tak up breeding who have been for a series of years engaged in a business where uniformity was an indispendable requisite, are likely to…
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Farming & the land, 1891
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Farm and Garden
At this era of insect plagues, no fruitgrower can reasonably expect to meet with success without the employment of a complete sprayin outfit. It is useless to expect…
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California is now making extensive experimeute in the grape growing districts to ascertain the best methods of drying grapes for raisins. Two methods are now…
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It is said that orange-growers have discovered a process by which an orange, picked white green can be coloured a rich fellow in forty-eight hours. No doubt consume a will…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Garden. About Guinea Fowls
It is doubtful whether, under proper management, any description of poultry is so profitable upon a farm as guinea-fowls. Time was when they were so delicate and…
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There are two ways in which onion sets are produced, and two distinct kinds of seeds of ordinary kinds of onions sown very thick which causes thom to crowd each,…
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Enquiries have been addressed to the Department of Agriculture from Northern Rivers as to theamount of raw spirit obtainable from a standard bushel ot maize, with a view to devising some…
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Mr. J. G. Percival, who some little time ago went to considerable expense to establish a butter factory in this district, has had rather up-hill work, in consequence of the difficulty he…
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The abseuoe of a male bird with hens makes no difference to the quantity of eggs laid, but of course, the eggs ate of no use for setting…
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The Landes, thc great savannah of France, stretches from [?] many vain attempts were made to induce trees to grow upon it. At last, one M. Bremontier…
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Give your trees good cultivation, even while young, and after they get old they should not be allowed to go three or four years without being cultivated. If the land…
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A valuable shipment of red polled cattle arrived in Sydney by the s.s. Durham on Friday. This is the finest collection of red poll cattle that has left England. They were selected by Mr. George…
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One who is preparing a home in the country will always find that it is as profitable to secure the counsel of a landscape-gardener, if his grounds are to be to be laid out to the best…
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A correspondent askes for a simple means for measuring the height of a tree. If the ground on which the tree stand is fairly level precure a pole that will be just ten…
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Ground where celery has been grows is always suitable for sowing carrots and beetroot. It should be trenched over. Before sowing the seed make the ground moderately…
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A farmer is a feeder. He feeds everything on his farm—the horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, wife, children, help, all the rats, cats, and dogs, mosquitoes and all…
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To the Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond. Sir,—I beg herewith to submit to you my report on the Farm-diaries, written by the students of the Hawkesbury Agricultural…
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Mr. C. T. Bagot writes:— The time is fast passing away when such valuable feeding stuff as the core and husk of the corn will, as it has hitherto, be wasted…
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We have received a copy of the "Robertson Herald," published in the Camden electorate, and take from it the following facts with reference to the…
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It paye to keep stock comfortable. Exposure, unkindness, and fretting, defeat, in a measure, the ends for which food is given, and result in corresponding loss…
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