Farm Life—Its Facinations
WHO was the author of the following paragraph does not appear, but it is evident that whoever he was, he must have possessed a lively imagination, and had a very high idea…
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Farming & the land, 1889
94 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 5
Maize Farming, Diseases, &c
THE foregoing was the title of the lecture of the technical series chosen for Rollands Plains; and there was a very much larger gathering there than is usual in this quarter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AGRICULTURE. Care of Farm Horses. M. MORGAN
THE general appearance of the farm horses throughout the country furnishes convincing proof that the great fundamental principle that feed and work are to one another in…
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If the information we have received from Italy prove correct, an entirely new industry will shortly be opened up amongst our coast farmers. We are told that an Italian firm…
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THE fourth lecture of the Technical College series, under the Hastings District Agricultural and Horticultural Association, was given on Saturday evening,…
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WE take the following interesting article from the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph ' of Jan. 31: The question for the New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Men Who Make Farming Fay
UPON the question of men who have had no previous experience in farming making a success of the cultivation of small tracts, it is only necessary to point to hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmers and the Election
PERHAPS no other class in the community do politics affect so much as the agricultural. Yet farmers, as a rule, are not the most prominent in electioneering, nor so united in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AGRICULTURE. Making of Butter
MR. J. W. ROKERTSON, Professor of Dairying at the Guelph College, Ontario, gives the following suggestions for the making of butter: --…
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IT is to be regretted that the meeting of shareholders of the above Company, which was called for yesterday, had to be adjourned on account of the paucity…
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ON Monday last the adjourned meeting of the above Company was held at Mr. Perry's office, when Mr. Eddis occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. The Growth of Wheat. JOHN J. Willis, Superintendent of Lawes and Gilbert's Experimental Farm, Rothamsted, England
It is well known that no ordinary cultivated plant can thrive without a sufficient supply of each of a number of substances needed for its food. And the plant has to…
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He lies in his hammock under the trees In the hush of the Summer hours, And hears the voice of the plundering bees. Down there in the bed of flowers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. The Shropshire Breed of Sheep
The Shropshire Down breed is of English origin, being the product of crossing the Southdown and possibly some other breeds on the old Morfe Common sheep. They…
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STATISTICS recently published leave very little doubt as to the room for extending the wheat and oat production in our colony. The estimate of 300,289 acres of wheat for 1888-9…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer of the Future
A writer in Blackwood's Magazine for this month gives the following definition of the successful farmer of the future : " The successful farmer of…
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In order to insure a prime article of butter, the first thing to be considered is feed and water. The first must be fresh, sweet, and wholesome, containing a good percentage of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Chicks From Hens and Pullets
There are some persons who seem to fail with brooders under almost every condition; but the causes of failure may often be traced in directions not anticipated. The more I…
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About the middle of April last we observed a young lamb entangled among briars. It bad seemingly struggled for liberty until it was quite exhausted, Its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Beef, Blood and Bones
Hammond, Ind., would not be much of a place without that great cattle slaughtering establishment, the Hammond Packing Company; This firm, on an average, kill a…
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