Farm and Garden, Original Articles. Rye Valuable As a Catch Crop
NITROGEN is the fertilising element most easily lost from manures and soils, also it is the meet expensive. The readiness with…
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No More Experimental Farms
Mr. Wilson, M P. (reports an Armida'e telegram) has received a communication from the Department of Mines and Agriculture in response to a letter sent by the secretary of the…
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GRCHARD.—Root pruning is seldom necessary where trees are growing in poor and shallow soils, or where the summer climate is at all severe. Peaches, apricots, cherries…
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A meeting of the members of the above was held in the Mechanics Institute on Saturday last. There were present Messrs. Wilson (chairman), Mallon, Connell,…
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The monthly meeting of the Council of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Thursday afternoon at the Royal Hotel, when the chair was taken by the President (Mr G…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, April 12, 1901
RAIN still [?] off, and its continued absence is causing a good deal of [?], as away from the frontages there but little water. Stock matters are [?] and but few lots have been moving during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Asparagus—a Good Profitable Crop
With proper care an asparagus plantation can be made to last for years, and it seems strange that people who make any pretension to growing vegetables do not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Celeriac or Turnip-rooted Celery
THIS plant partakes of the general character of the common celery in flavour, so far as the leaf is concerned, and is simply a variety with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Factory at Hay
The question of erecting a Butter Factory at Hay is one that should command immediate attention at the hands of the public. That there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Business Slack
The position of things in Bradford remains practically unchanged from last week, there being no department in. which much new business is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Deaths of Cattle. Sydney
Fifty head of cattle dropped dead at Sommerton, near Gunnedah, this morning. The cause has not yet been ascertained…
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A very rough, but, at the bottom, nob at all bad, method of comparing different samples of butter as to tho amounts of the various constituents they contain is given by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Apple Butter
"Apple butter" (says the Rural New Yorker) "should be made from new cider fresh from the press, but not yet fermented. Fill a porcelain-lined kettle with cider. Boil…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Albury Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A meeting of the committee of this association was held on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the rabbit question, more especially in regard to a proposal to…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Effect of Feed Upon Butter
It is a well-established fact that the foods consumed by dairy cows exorcise a very important influence on the texture or firmness of the butter produced by them. In this…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →How American Wheat Is Sent to England
The methods employed for handling largo quantities of material have been brought to great perfection in the Uuited States. Take, 'for example, the handling of grain…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mulqueeney and Wright's Report. Special Sheep Sale at Wodonga
Messrs MULQUEENEY and Weight, in conjunction with Messrs. Younghusband and Co., report holding a special sheep sale at their yards on Monday, 15th inst,, when they yarded and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A. Piggin and Co.'s Report. Special Sheep Bale at Corowa
Messrs. A. A. PlGGlN and Co. report holding a special sheep Bale at Corowa on Tuesday, 16th inst., when a large yarding of sheep was offered to a good attendance of buyers. Biddings were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grooming Dairy Stock
That cattle are about the only animals which attempt to groom themselves is pointed out as one reason why they require it. A cow uses her rough tongue for n curry-comb…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
ORCHARD.—The past season has been favorable to the development of rust on peach leaves, and the shothole fungus which attacks apricots. It is not practicable or safe…
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