Wheat Growing
A VALUABLE pamphlet (says the "Field') has recently been published "On the Varieties, Properties, and Classification of Wheat," by Colonel Le Couteur, of…
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Farming & the land, 1872
28 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2
The Shorthorn Breed of Cattle
THE preponderance of the breed at the meetings of the Royal Agricultural Society of England has been remarkable. The result of seven years, ending in 1871, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Salt for Sheep
MR. G. M. SMITH writes to the 'Queenslander:—I enclose some extracts from Youatt's work on sheep on the use of salt as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inoculation of Cattle
THE following report on the inoculation of cattle as a preventive of pleuro-pneumonia is furnished by James B. Simonds, M.D., of the R. V. College, London…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cross-bred Sheep. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express.)
GENTLEMEN—Thinking that an assertion mad* by Mort & Co., in a circular lately issued by them, releaive to cross-bred sheep, may lead some keep farmers not…
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THE practice in the United States of cultivating one species of grain—wheat, for instance—year after year, for in some cases as many as 20 years or more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fowls for Farms
A CORRESPONDENT of the 'Australasian' writes:—Seeing frequent enquiries in your useful journal, namely: What fowl is the best…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Diseases of Sheep
FLUKE, worms, and bottle are all diseases of a similar nature to which sheep are subject, particularly in wet seasons, and are the effect of a deficiency of certain…
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