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New England · Farming & the land
68 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 4
A SPECIAL meeting of the General Committee was held, at the New England Hotel, on Tuesday last. There were present the President (Mr. H. A. Thomas), the Treasurer (Mr. E. Baker), the Mayor, and Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE 'Mark Lane Express' says:—-The returns of cattle and sheep are more satisfactory than we expected to find them. The number of the former for England and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN one of your late issues I saw an enquiry how to make butter. I beg to inform yon how successful as a butter maker I have been for the last ten years. I know it is more difficult to make in frosty weather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is estimated that the wheat importations of the first nine months of the present year have cost us about £17,000,000, while they amounted in the corresponding period of,last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HAVING at some length in a former article showed what the fluke is, the next thing is to tell why it is. This resolves itself into two considerations. First, the state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a large attendance at the wool sales, and prices advanced three-eighths of a penny to a penny. Wool was also sold higher privately, and a further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE can at length submit to our country readers Mr. Samuel Wilson's long and exhaustive letter on sheep washing, together with the plans which have caused so much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE reprinted from a Riverine contemporary a few weeks since a caution to cattle drovers on the risks they would incur if they neglected, when travelling with stock, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VERY old writer on agriculture (Jethro Tull) says:—"Some have thought that a large grain of wheat would produce a larger plant than a small grain, but I have full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The South Australian Commission, which is investigating the diseases in wheat, are drawing their labours to a close. They have only been delayed by the neglect of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MESSRS. Windeller and Bowles, writing on February 29th, respecting the London wool sales, state:—The catalogues of yesterday and to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN one of those excellent papers which are continously appearing in the American Agricultural Press—the results of deliberations of societies of practical men—we find the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN—I feel called upon to return you our sincere thanks for the complimentary manner in which you have alluded to our Dundee wool washing establishment;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE shearing season is yet many months distant; bat flockowners cannot have their attention too early or too often drawn to the necessity which exists for the proper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No. 217. 649 acres, Crossing-place Reserve, county of Arrawatta, at Ashaford. Forms portion of Frazer's Greek Run. No. 218 640 acres, Sandy Camp Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No. 69. 640 acres, Sandy Camp Greek, county of Arrawatta, Inverell. Forms portion of the Red bank RunNo. 81. 640 acres, Crossing-place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letter has been addressed to the Editor of the 'S. M. Herald':— SIR—I forward to you the following description of a plan for utilising a substance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In 1860 M. Jean Henri Chaudet, of Rouen, France, was the first to propose the use of bisulphate of soda, lencogene, for bleaching wool, which is now universally employed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PATENTED by William H. Jubb, of Norwalk, Conn. The following are the ingredients for the compound for destroying the burrs: Sulphuric acid, one hundred parts,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A METHOD of making use of fowls recently devised in France, is said to be of great agricultural value. An old omnibus is fitted up with nest-boxes and perches, and it…
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