Maize Diseases. a Warning to Farmers
THE Rural Australian says :--The Queensland Agricultural Department have landed in that colony some 1000 bushels of seeds, which are to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mid North Coast · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1894
110 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 6
A Farmer Killed. Grafton
Andrew Sleath, a farmer at Copmanhurst, was thrown from his horse yesterday and instantaneously killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →" How a Farmer should Live."
UNDER the above heading the Manning Times publishes a letter from Mr. Frank C. Bedford, Mount Pleasant, Kimbriki, from which we extract the following :--…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Maize Crop. Sydney
Accounts are coming to hand from all parts showing that owing to the prolonged spell of dry weather the maize crop of the colony has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Corn & Wheat H[?] an Unprecedented Yield. Ad[?]
Interviews with several lending authorities in the corn trade the [?] is likely to he one of the heaviest reaped in the history of the colony. The average is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shorthorn Cattle of To-day
A LEADING English writer remarks that Shorthorns never showed their superiority more than during times of agricultural depression. However low the prices of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Straying Cattle and Horses. To the Editor
SIR,--Some weeks ago an advertisement was published in the ARGUS that the owners of all cattle and horses straying in the streets would be summoned by the Inspector of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Potato Crops
THERE was a potato-growing competition in Scotland recently for the prize presented by the Permanent Nitrate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spurgeon and the Farmer
ANOTHER anecdote of the late Mr. Spurgeon is related by Mr. A. J. Parker in "The Sword and the Trowel." Preaching…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shorthorn Cattle of To-day
A LEADING English writer remarks that Shorthorns never showed their superiority more than during times of agricultural depression. However low the prices of pure…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sunflower Seed as a Farm Crop
THE North Carolina station has tried experiments with the various kinds of cultivated sunflowers. B. W. Kilgore reports (B. 90b) that the average yield per acre has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disasterous Floods on Monaro. a Water Spout at Kiah Lake. Thousands of Sheep Rilled. Cooms, January 8
REPORTS are received of damage by floods throughout the district. It is estimated that between 90,000 and 100,000 sheep have been killed by the cold or been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Dairying is Encouraged in Denmark. Worth Imitating by Our Government
THE dairy farmers in Denmark owe much of their prosperity the care with which their rulers have fostered their industry (says the Pall Mall Gazette). If at the present time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Potato Crops
THERE was a potato prowing competition in Scotland recently for the price presented by the Permanent Nitrate Company, London, for the best acre of potatoes grown with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and Freetrade
AT the invitation of the Berrigan Farmers' Union, Mr. G. H. Reid, leader of the Opposition, addressed a crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle. the Illawarra Dairy Cattle
THE Illawarra cattle, though chiefly bred in Australia, are essentially British in their origin and characteristics, for they contain in their veine scarcely any ed mixture of foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Profitable Three-Acre Farm
A NOTABLE illustration of what may be accomplished at a comparatively small cost from a small is presented in the very successful experiment performed by Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Execution in Melbourne. the Baby Farming Horrors. Mrs. Knorr Hanged Death Swift and Painless. Over Without a Hitch. Melbourne
Mrs. Knorr arose early this morning, after passing a very disturbed night. She had not been told of the midnight attempt to gain a reprieve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Silo for the Farmer
WE are asked if we would advise saving ensilage by the general farmer who is not engaged in the dairy business. In reply we would say that every farmer is in the dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle
Another breeder of very famous Illawarra dairy cattle is Mr. James cole, of the Cole Brothers, Jamberoo. Mr. Cole claims for his cattle the pure milking strain of shorthorn…
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