May Revolutionize Farming
ONE of the most important experiments in economic agriculture has been undertaken by the Illinois experimental…
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Farming & the land, 1894
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Feeding Wheat to Pigs
THE question whether it would not be more profitable to feed wheat to pigs than to send it to market at the prices now…
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ON good light soils where there has been difficulty in getting lucerne to grow, it is very possible that success may be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Middle Men, the Bane of the Farmer
A VICTORIAN farmer writes to the Leader --A few days ago I had a conversation With a farmer, of Danish nationality, who is the owner of 300. acres of land not far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Contented Farmer
DOES the really contented farmer exist anywhere in the world ? For that matter is there such a thing as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Trip to the South. the " Kingdom " of the Storekeepers. Languishing Agriculture. Help for the Butter Industry
" AWAY from the railway the country storekeeper is still King," a Sydney writer asserted the other day. This is painfully true. I say " painfully" with deliberate malice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Revival of the Sugar Industry. Meeting of Farmers
To consider the wisdom or otherwise of once again entering on sugargrowing on the Macleay, a meeting of farmers, convened by the Macleay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers and Science
Many farmers affect a spirit of contemp' for science in its application to agriculture They have farmed all their lives, and their fathers and grandfathers before them were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Worn-out Farms
WE often hear of a "worn-out" farm, but in reality there is no such thing. Land can be exhausted temporarily of its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairying Industry
A BILL for regulating the dairy industry has just passed the New Zealand Parliament. It provides for the establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bread and Butter and Honey
When the Armstrongs rode over to Bolton that afternoon, and left Alice alone in the house, they had no idea that there could be any danger for her. Alice was their little…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coming Potato Crop on the Clarence
It is Computed that the summer crop of potatoes on the Clarence for 1894 will commence this month…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Derelict Farms in England
THE first instalment of the report of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression in England will be read in every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Farming. Lecture by Mr. J. McCUE
MR. J. J. McCue, of Telegraph Point, delivered a lecture in the Good Templars' Hall, Kempsey, last night, under the auspices of the Macleay A. H. &.I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act. Opposition to Its Enforcement
THE Board of Health, in putting into force the new Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act, has met with much opposition. Strong and persistent agitation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Farmer's View of Preaching
Well, wife, town sermons seems to me, Are like the ridin' plough; They're easy, purty kind o' things, But don't go deep somehow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Output of the World
THE aggregated wheat-supplying countries are this year estimated to be growing sixteen million bushels in excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thinning out Fruit Crops
JUST now is the time when the subject of thinning the fruit crop deserves the attention of orchardists. There can be no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Slaughtering Regulations
AMONG the matters considered at a meeting of the Cabinet last week were the regulations drawn up by the Board of Health under the Cattle-slaughtering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prolificacy of Sheep
It is quite common for some of the English [?]oarse-woolled ewes to drop twins, and occasionally a birth of triplets occurs where all live. Such ewes and their progeny should…
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