Farmer. Making Hay While the Sun Shines
As our farmer friends, we hope, will soon again be making hay while the sun shines, it may be well to briefly note the leading facts that science has to teach us respecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid North Coast · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1889
94 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 5
Snakes as Dairy Maids. How a Couple of Serpents Grew Fat at a Planter's Expense
Samuel C. Gates, says a letter to the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, prides himself on his fine cows. Recently he noticed that one of them gave very little milk and he came to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The French Sheep Farm
M. Gustave Heuze contributes to a French journal an interesting account of the national sheep breeding farm (bergerie) at Rambouillet, which has now been in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Butter Factories
The Minister of Agriculture has received the report of Mr. D. Wilson on the butter factories now established and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rural A Lesson in Butter
A little maid in the morning sun Stood merrily singing and churning-- "Oh, how I wish this butter was done Then off to the field's I'd be turning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. The Cost of Growing Wheat in Missouri
The following questions submitted to more than one hundred practical farmers in the wheat growing counties of Missouri elicited such information as has enabled the Rural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy Maid's Fate
Ploughs are now made without handles, and the plough-boy has only to sit above a pair of wheels and drive across the field to turn up the earth. The dairy maid will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Factories for the Macleay
THE establishment of Dairy Factories on the Macleay is perhaps one of the most forward steps yet attempted in the district, and one which must…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deaths at the Baby Farm. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The inquest on the child Archibald, who died at Mrs. Betts' Baby Farm has been adjourned. Another child in the same institution last night, whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. Macleay Cattle. To the Editor
SIR,--I was so geeatly amused by "Our Reporter's" remarks down the river re improvement in the breed of cattle for the Macleay that I looked up a little bit I cut…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer. Dairy Hints
Every farmer is accustomed to salt his cattle, but not every one knows why he does it, unless it is because the stock like it. But a moment's thought will show where the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Best Feed For Dairy Cows
Farmers have a much greater sphere of influence on the flavor of milk produced than many suppose, or they are willing to admit. The reason why a certain number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Baby Farm. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Mrs. Batt, of the Waverly Baby Farm was committed for trial to-day, for the murder of the infant Cohen. Mrs. Batt now stands charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Helidon Dairy Company
Last week I made one of a party bent upon visiting the Helidon Dairy Company's factory. Leaving the railway train at the Helidon station, and expressing our desire to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Dairy Business
The Department of Agriculture has undertaken the work of exporting butter in Victoria, and 50 tons are to be shipped for the English market by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The first direct shipment of this season's wool goes to America by mail steamer to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Wool. [By Telegraph] Sydney
The first direct shipment of this season's wool goes to America by mail steamer to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why Butter Goes Bad
The butter-making season being at its height, it may be well to put a point out that one of the chief causes of butter " going bad" quickly after being made, is owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. Influence of Location on Wool
From a paper on this subject by a French writer we condense the following: -- We may lay it down as a principle that wherever the land is good there the wool is equally so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Women in the Dairy
A lady writes to us that she would take pride in making good butter but that her husband will not furnish her with needed facilities. That is a shame. When we…
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