The Farmer. Treatment of Sheep
THERE are many reasons why the few growers who still persist should abandon the habit of washing their sheep before shearing, and we know of not a single argument in its favor…
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Farming & the land, 1886
36 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Farmer. Training a Trotting Horse by Swimming
WHILE Mr. Robert Bonner was inspecting John Turner's horses in Philadelphia the General told a curious story of horse training. "When I was a boy, and $200 looked as big…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Scraps from the Live Stock Journal
SIR JOHN B. LAWES makes the important announcement that he is engaged with Dr. Gilbert in preparing a paper for the next Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Good News for Horse Breeders
COLONEL RUSSELL contributes to the current a number of The Nineteenth Century an article on " War Horses." In the event of war with a first rate Power, he says, we should certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and the Fiscal Policy of the Present Government. To the Editor
SIR,--I cannot conceive what our farmers are thinking about and wonderingly ask myself do they ever read of what is going on in Parliament? Surely the farming community…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and the Future Prospects of Maize Grow-on the Macleay. To the Editor
SIR,--Last week I addressed you a few lines on the subject of " Farmers and the Fiscal Policy of the Government" but it failed to arouse any response from the farmers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Yard Poultry. Failures in Poultry-keeping
Chiefly due to a mistaken idea that poultry can be made profitable and a source of wealth income without any outlay,everything being expected from whilst nothing is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence River and North Coast Farmers, Association
The usual monthly meeting of the Board was held on Tuesday last. Mr. G. Bailey (Chairman) presided, and all the members of the Boaud were…
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fed during the whole fattening period very regularly at stated times; no food should be left after a meal; the coop must be very clean, and kept out of the sun, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Climbing Plants in Trees
THESE give an appearance of robust luxuriance and unrestrained vigour, reminding the spectator of those tropical and semitropical climes where nature, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Preserving Eggs
EGGS packed and treated as follows can be kept three months, and seem and look like "fresh eggs: Take a common box, such as is used for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer. Milk Registers
At the dairy conference a paper, on "Milk Registers," was read by Professor Fream, College of Agriculture, Downton, as follows: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Horse-training in South America
In Various parts of the world there are some curious methods of breaking in horses and rendering them obedient to the will of man. Amongst the several methods employed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer. The Hunter -- How to Breed, Rear, and Train it
OF the many manly sports for which Englishmen are famed, there are none which take precedence of hunting. Participated in by all degrees of men, it brines all classes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. The Scotch Collie. in Cassels Agricultural Almanac
OF the many breeds of dogs the British Islands can boast of, far and away the most really useful, as well as the most intelligent and sagacious. is the Scotch Collie, or shepherd's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Model Farm
ABOUT a couple of miles from Kempsey, on the banks of the Euroka Creek, there is a farm which well deserves the title which heads this article. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. the Sex of Offspring
We give the continuation of Mr. Sanders Spencer's paper, read at the Institute of Agriculture, on the above subject, of which the first part appeared a short time ago: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Excessive Fathers in Farm Stock
Success with farm stock depends mainly upon two things, supplemented by a third condition. It is hardly proper to give preference to cither of the two influences referred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Forsaken Farmhouse
Against the wooded hills it stands, Ghost of a dead home, staring through Its broken lights on wasted lands Where old time harvests grew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Feeding for Lean and Fat Meat
THE conclusions to which we came in regard to the influence of food upon the quality of the increase of the pig do not differ in any material degree from those recently arrived…
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