Rations for Milk and Butter
At the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Prof. E. W. Stewart has formulated rations as follows: FOR MILK…
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Farming & the land, 1891
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Farm and Garden
Do you want a garden patch that is rich and also free from the myriad weeds that infest your old garden? Change the hen yard to a new site and use the ground where it…
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It has always been a debatable point whether it is possible to breed a flook of black sheep. All sheep-breeders are aware that by a freak of nature a few black lambs are found…
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The Manilla hemp plant, which is very similar to the banana, is found to thrive best in soil composed of decayed vegetable matter…
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Herodotus mentions that in Cilicia the sheep had little carts under their tails to help them along. The fat-tailed sheep are now reported to be replacing the finer breed…
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Many kinds of vegatable growing on light soils will require wataring to keep them growing freely. It is best to do this thoroughly when necessary—not a burface…
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Dr. Ball, of Dublin, says that the ibabitants of Arran, where the malden-hair fern grows plentifully, employ it asa substitute for tes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Cattle-Stealing Story
Rolf Boldrewood has compiled a most readable hash out of that story of the Bowen Downs cattle in his "Robbery Under Arms." It reminds one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Big Wrinkle for the Farmers
The Mudgee Guardian says:—Recently Mr. J. L. Thompson, the principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College…
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There are two kiuds of spwine [?] spavin' sad 'bene spavin.' Both may [?] duce lameness when there is much full [?] tion. Bug spavin in a golt swelling [?]…
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