Farm and Garden
People often wonder why a hen does not fall off her perch when she goes to sleep. The fact is she cannot. As long as a hen is standing up or walking about the tendons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1894
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London Wool Sales
Messrs. C. Balme and Co., and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., opened sales on Wednesday, offering catalogues which totalled 17,300 bales. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Shipment of Live Cattle to England
A second-quality bullock by the steamer Maori King has realised from 4d to 4½d per lb. The Times, in commenting upon the shipment of live cattle to England by the steamer Maori King,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & garden. the Manufacture of Rocquefort Cheese
Kochefort, or Rocquefort, is prepared—in the Department of Aveyran, Southern France—from sheep's milk exclusively, and goat's or cow's milk may make good…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →To Make a Big Corn Crop
I found long since that to produce a crop equal to the capacity of the soil it grows upon the land must be uniformly ploughed, but no deeper than the surface soil, which is most…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, September 23.—At the current London wool sales 67,200 bales have been catalogued, of which 58,400 baless have been sold to date…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Packing Butter in Small Dairies
Creamery butter has an advantage of uniformity over that produced in small private dairies. The dairy churning is large, the cream has been ripened all together…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm and Garden. Shade for Rhododendrons
Rhododandrons, and other broad leaved evergreen shrubs and trees succeed best when planted iu a hall shady position. Some of the species may withstand the hot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Sales [By Cable] London
At the wool sales to-day there was a good attendance and bidding was animated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Citicory As an Australian Crop
This paint has been cultivated here, as a forage crop principally, for many years (says Australian Agriculture.) Our German and French fellow-colonists are especially…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The farm & garden a Miniature Cream Separator
The Dairy Supply Company of London are introducing a new cream separator called the Humming Bird, which separates at the rate of 15 gallons of milk per hour, and analysis…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rules for the Dairy
I. Cow sheds should receive regular and thorough cleaning every morning. Refuse carried out to the manure heaps; stall well cleaned with farm hoe, afterward brushed ;…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Late Sporting News. Warwick Farm Races
The weather was fine to-day for the opening of a two-days' programme of the Warwick Farm Race Club, which will conclude the reunion or Saturday next. The attendance, owing to the fact of it being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Farming in New South Wales
Mr. John Plummer, of Sydney, writing to the Western Daily Press, England, says:—It has frequently been asked what chances a practical farmer with a limited amount of money capital, possesses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Market
Since the close of the last Colonial wool auctions on July 25, there had been, till within the last ten days, little or nothing of importance to record, but at about that period the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. Campbell Mimmo and Co's Report
The last fortnightly wool sales prior to the commencement of the regular weekly sales on the 8th proximo were held on Tuesday and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bread and Butter Social
THE first event of this Kind yet held in Scone, which has been anxiously looked forward to by local T[?]rpsichoreans for the last couple of weeks, came off in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
Messrs. Dalgety and Company Ltd., Sydney, telegraph us that they expect a large number of buyers at their next sale on Wednesday, the 10th inst., as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Opening of New Wool Stores
AT the invitation of Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co, a large number of gentlemen made on inspection on Wednesday last 26th inst., of the firm's new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
Since the close of the last Colonial wool auctions on July 25, there had been, till within the last ten days, little or nothing of importance to record, but at about that period the…
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