Hallett's Pedigree Wheat
ALL previous attempts to acclimatise this celebrated wheat in the Melbourne district, and as far as we have yet ascertained, in the colony, having failed, it is…
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Farming & the land, 1864
29 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2
A Valuable Hint for Farmers
The celebrated Mr. Robert Bakewell of Dishly, Leicestershire, and the founder of the now Leicestershire sheep, used to tell an anecdote, with exceeding high glee, of a…
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What the French call "petite agriculture," as contrasted with the cultivation of corn and grass on a large scale, is now becoming firmly fixed amongst us. One…
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A great deal of error is just now being propagated by non and pseudo agricultural journals in reference to the nature and causes of this scourge of the farmer. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silk Farms—the Management of the Insect
A certain Danish writer upon the ornithology of Iceland, rejoicing in the name of Horrebrow, devotes the whole of his sixty-third chapter to its owls in these…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Farming. (To the Editor of the Empire.)
SIR,—I am quite a new chum in Australia, but during the short time I have been in this beautiful country, have travelled many hundred miles in search…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Potatoes Versus Butter. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Express.)
SIR,—For a number of years, and until very recently, the potato in Ireland was called the "idle root" on account of the ease with which the esculent was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report. 24th March
Sales commenced on 3rd March, and closed [?] the 23rd. Total bales catalogued 53,992. There was a large attendance of buyers, both of home and foreign, and prices advanced from…
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"BRED" upon the same principle of repeated selection which has produced our pure races of Animals, starting from one grain in each year for four…
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Thinking it may be of interest to some of your readers, I will give a few ideas of butter making obtained by making it for years, and while visiting some of the most noted and scientific…
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The su[?]ned is the paper ready by Mr. Mitshell at the last meeting of the Horticultural Association, and kindly forwarded to us for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Cattle Exert their Whole Strength
The economy of the ex-team is recognised where heavy, steady work is to be done, where rapidity gives place to vigorous hauling and [?]tience in [?]lling through sloughs or [?]er rough…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hallett's Pedigree Wheat, (Continued from our last.)
Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hallett's Pedigree Wheat. (Concluded from our last.)
I do not mean that when wheat is drilled or sown broadcast in the usual way, and at the usual time, we cannot obtain any of the advantages to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AGRICULTURAL. The Failure in the Corn Crops and its Con[?]quences
If a couple of old saws could be any make up for an empty pocket, the farmers of Victoria and New South Wales might console themselves for their present position by the thought, that "it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rust in Wheat. (To the Editor of the Age.)
SIR,—If you consider the following worth publication, I give it pro bono publico. When I was a boy my father could not grow wheat on his farm. Soil,…
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THERE has been some talk of founding an Agricultural College. It is proposed that a Joint Stock Company be formed, lands purchased, buildings erected, and professors appointed, who shall teach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Making and Packing
Thinking it may be of interest to some of your readers, I will give a few ideas of butter making obtained by making it for years, and while visiting some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rust-wheat for Seed
The shrivelled grain of rusted wheat is admitted, by both practical and scientific men, to answer well for seed; so that the farmer who has suffered from this plague need not leave his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seed Wheat. (To the Editor of the South Australian Register.)
"Sir,—Under the heading "Agricultural Statistics" in a late issue, you say that it appears from statements made in the neighboring colonies that South Australia will probably have to supply…
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