Buying Small Farms
A person who wishes a model farm can better produce one on a small scale than on a large one. As far as our experience serves us we have never known a…
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Farming & the land, 1877
46 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 3
Extraordinary Case of Baby Farming and Suspected Murder
A LADY- LIKE woman, named Sophia Martha Todd, aged about thirty- five, was charged before the Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate on April 26th, on suspicion of having caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] Butter
[?] the 'California following inatruc[?] generaily cir[?] butter-makers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Apples for Cattle
A good farmer in Connecticut, by feeding appples to each cow, commencing with half a bushel per day, and increasing the quantity to one bushel, found a gain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers and Free Selectors' Association
ON Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Committee of Management was held, at Mr. Butler's, Travellers' Best Hotel, Beardy-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Armidale Ast) Sew England Pastoral and Agricultural Association
ON Wednesday afternoon, in accordance with public announcement, the annual meeting of the above-named Association was held, in the Town Hall. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local Intelligence. Armidale Police Court. Friday, July 13. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Rescuing Sheep
MARRTIN Heagney v. William Sims.—The complainant charged the defendant with rescuing 400 sheep, which on' the 7th July had been seized by him for the pur…
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ON Saturday last an adjourned Committee meeting of the above-named Association was held, at Mr. Butler's, Travellers' Rest Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Value of Sheep
THERE is an old proverb about "sheep having golden feet" a saying that is true for more reasons than one. What would the agriculture of England be without her sheep ? Almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Future of Wool
BY our mail advices and letters we learn that the condition of the wool trade is not unnaturally causing some anxiety amongst the more far-seeing English, farmers. For some time past the woollen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, August 31, 1877
WOOL.—We nave now tally before us tne causes and course of the fluctuations of the May-June London sales. Commencing with a depressed tone in the home…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pigs on a Dairy Farm
ON all large dairy farms where the milk is not all sold there will be a quantity of whey or skim milk to be disposed of by feeding pigs. Under good management, either in cheese or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle In Australia
" TOM MURRAY," in the Queenslander writes :-- I have been glad to notice lately that the tone of public opinion is beginning to cry down the habit of giving long prices for beasts with long…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Intelligence. Farmers and Free Selectors Association
On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the above-named Association was held, in the Town Hall, "To consider the merits of the candidates for the electorate of New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The [?]eoman and Grazier. Small Stock Farms
MR. DAVID C. M'CONNEL, of Witton, Indooroopilly, sends the following letter on the above subject to the Queensland Times :--Dear Sir--In reply to your question, "What would be the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Whole Wheat Flour
IT is well known to chemists and physicians that good, well-ripened wheat contains, in the proper proportions, all the essential elements for the support or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Buck-wheat for Seasons of Drought
The 'Madras Mail' of September 6 states that Mr. F. G. Shaw, Officiating Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon, has suggested to the Government that buck-wheat would…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From Mort & CO.'s Annual Wool and Produce Circular. Sydney, October 27, 1877
THE period to which our Annual Returns are usually made up having closed on the 30th ult., we propose as heretofore making a few comments upon the year's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loose or Solid Land for Wheat
MR. MICHI, writing at some length, on this subject, says:—Whenever we have rolled and solidified the wheat land, either before or after drilling, the crop…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Wanted, a Handbook of Farm Husbandry
A SELECTOR writes to the 'Australasian':—A simple book on husbandry in Victoria is very much wanted at the present time,…
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