Farming Notes
Grape vines can be pruned at any time after the leaves fall and before the sap starts in the spring. We have, however, always practised fall pruning. The work can…
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Farming & the land, 1887
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Farming Notes. (from [?].)
Agricultural Shows.—During the first half of the year most of our country shows are held, and speaking generally, the annual show of most districts is getting more…
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The word passed round at Ledcourt runt 'Tis mustering time and we Must rise, and have our work begun, Before the sun we see…
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THINKING AND WORKING.—There is always something for the farmer with braius to think about, and generally enough for him to do. It is not idle to sit and think the lever that…
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WEANING CALVES.—Calves should be weaned at from five to seven months old ; then they are ready to take the grass or go into winter quarters, as the case may be. They…
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We have quite as often advocated the extended use of poultry on the farm as we have suggested the perfect impracticability of poultry farms. On a given…
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THE advantage of having a property organised Statistical Department in the colony in connection with agricultural affairs, says the Sydney Mail, are pleasingly illustrated this…
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The dairyman who buys a big cow, giving a little mess of milk, for the sake of having her heavy weight as a basis for beef at the termination of her usefulness, is like a…
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PACKING BUTTER.— The secretary of the British Dairy Farmer’s Association says he does not knew of a better method of packing butter than that adopted by the consignors…
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Mr. P. H. Fahin, a furniture and piano mover at Melden, gives his experience in the Boston Transcript with barefooted horses, He has driven three horses (two…
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Breeders of improved, varieties of live stock can justly lay claim to the title of public benefactors. The estates and farms on which high-class studs of horses, herds…
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To PREVENT RUSTING.—A ploughman says there are several easy ways to prevent rusting of ploughs and cultivators and to keep the teeth bright. One is to give them…
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EXHIBITIONS.—We fear our readers are not as much impressed as they should be with the advantages they can derive from exhibitions. By exhibitions we mean the large…
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Mr. George Barham, in the course of an address at the Tring Show, said he was very much surprised to see that in the Yale of Tylesbury, noted as it was, and…
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Commenting upon a competitive exhibition of preserved eggs the Field says that one set was placed in an hermetically sealed tin vessel, closely soldered down,…
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CARS OF COLTS.—All the extra care of the colts now will be handsomely repaid in the early developing of the young horse, and the better horse it will make gives a better return…
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The mails from South Africa bring tidings of another of these wholesale poisonings of sheep that have happened from time to time, filling the minds of the…
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According to the New York journals, the great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada…
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The following statement is taken from the Economist:--During the current series of colonial wool sales recently held in London, prices have sustained a further…
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The butter question is engaging the attention, not only of agriculturists, but of merchants and others engaged in the trade at Cork. At the meeting of the…
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