Intelligent Farmers
IT is erroneously supposed by many that it does not require a large amount of intelligence to constitute a good farmer. If the whole business consisted in turning…
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Farming & the land, 1874
45 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3
Crossing Sheep
MR. GEO. R. HIRST writes, in his circular. The subject of breeding sheep from the old merino stock of the colony, which is…
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THE 'Brisbane Telegraph' says:—Young men on farms, if yon will qualify yourselves by reading and study, as well as by intelligent labour, there lies…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jno. Chas. Gawthrop. the Introduction of Merino Sheep Into England
THE following paper, signed H., is said to have been found among the papers of the late Dr. Bland:—The breed of Spanish Merino sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Heavy v. Merino Sheep. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express,)
GENTLEMEN—On reading Mr. Hirsts remarks on crossing sheep, copied by you from his Circular, one would think that crossing Merino Sheep with long-woolled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral and Agricultural Association of Central New England. the Show at Clen Innes. (Br Electric Telegraph.) Glen Innes
I SEND you, according to your wish, a lengthy telegram with reference to the Show here:—WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Story-teller. John Erskine, Farmer. (From Bow Bells.)
MY story is a very simple tale, I warn you beforehand. There is no exciting plot, no startling denouement; yet thus it was my life became a happy one, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express.)
GENTLEMEN—Any misconception that may have arisen relative to the intended shows of the above Society has evidently originated in a mistake on Mr. Moser's…
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THE ' Australasian' says:—The Agricultural Society of New South Wales has again had the pleasure of hearing a lecture from thoroughly competent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Correspondence. Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express.)
GENTLEMEM—Having been present at a meeting that took place at the Wellington Hotel on the last evening of the Armidale Private Races, for the purpose of forming…
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"The impost on salt; of all taxes on the continent that which is most odious, the most unnatural, and the most disgraceful to human reason."—Leibig…
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A SHORT time ago, Mr. Argyle M'Cullem, of Bellevale, near Yass, not being at the moment in a position to spare any of his men to dress a number of lame sheep, had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral and Agricultural Society of New England. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express,)
GENTLEMEN—Mr. Moser has tried - to set himself right in the matter of the above Society, and, as far as I can see, has got deeper in the mud or muddle; for had he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ladies' Society. (From the Irish Sportsman and Farmer.)
FOR the mere "ladies' man." we hare, in common with ladies themselves, an unmitigated contempt. He is mostly a harmless fool, a namby-pamby creature,…
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CINCINNATUS writes to the 'Queenslander':—I read in the ' Queenslander' of February 21, with much pleasure, the short but…
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MR. WM. LYAIL read the following paper at a meeting of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria:—In bringing forward a kind of resume…
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THE 'Town and Country Journal' says:—In West Somerset, bordering North Devon, is a wild tract of mountainous country, the greater portion of which…
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THE Home Diary employs 25 men, and turns out about 300 tons of butter per day. An elegant and commodious…
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"GRASS and Sheep Farming: A Paper Speculative and Suggestive." By William Fairer, B.A., late scholar of Pembrokecollege, Cambridge. Sydney: W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Worms in Sheep. (To the Editor of the Herald.)
SIR—As the drooping season may breed worms in the sheep in some of the districts of the colony, I would feel obliged by your bringing the following cures for…
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