Butter Making
ONE of your correspondents having specially asked me to afford some information about butter-making, I comply with his request by writing a few notes on the…
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Farming & the land, 1879
53 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 3
Pastoral and Agricultural Association of Central New England
A GENERAL meeting of the members of the above took place in the Court House on Tuesday afternoon. There was a fair attendance. Mr. Vice-President M'Master occupied the chair, and stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blindness Among Sheep
TO what extent the eyes of sheep in Australia may be affected by disease we have no means of ascertaining, bat that they are not wholly free from eye diseases is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Good and Bad Farming. (From Castner's Monthly.)
IT is astonishing how apparently trifling changes in methods, or unusual care in selecting and manipulating farm products will influence sales and enhance prices…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Notes on Sheep Farming
THE sheep is so plastic an animal and has been made so thoroughly at home in such a diversity of situations, that I do not despair of finding flocks quite as numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An English Garden Farm
IN the vicinity of London market-gardening is necessarily conducted on a large scale, and where tho total area of the holding is a hundred acres and upwards farm crops, such as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Siberian Wheat
A GREAT many people have very hazy ideas about Russia in general and Siberia in particular. The latter vast territory, some 1200 miles from North to South,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Yeoman. Red Rust in Wheat, Its Nature, Effect, and Remedy
THE following interesting article, from the pen of Dr. C. Muecke, appears in the 'Adelaide Observer':—It seems astonishing that the scientific…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farman and Grazien. A Useful Lesson in Potato Culture
A FRENCH agricultural journal, called the Basses Cour, describe [?]he result of some experiments in potato g[?]ing recently conducted by scientific men in [?]many. The principal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salt on Spring Wheat
HAVING noticed an enquiry in your paper (says a correspondent of the 'Prairie farmer') in regard to sowing salt on spring wheat, I will give you…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Feeding and General Management of Farm Horses
AS there is tree economy in employing only the best quality of horses, and these in their prime, so also is there in feeding them uniformly well, and looking to their…
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MR. J. W. CAUPER, of Gympie, writes as follows on this subject:--"The great analogy between this vegetable parasite of the large fungus tribe and other fungi such as the Oidium…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer and Grazier. A Novel Way to Pot Butter
ONE of the new things talked about at the late meeting of the American Dairymen's Association was the preparing of butter for market in the following way, which we condense from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Disease in Sheep, and its Cure
A SOMEWHAT peculiar kind of worm disease among sheep is said to be prevalent in the Colac district, and several stockowners are reported to have sustained heavy losses through its effects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Rust in Wheat. (From the Toowoomba Chronicle, 4Th Sept.)
RUST is by no means a new disorder. It has been known to attack cereals of many centuries, and notwithstanding much time has been devoted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farmer and Grazier. Breeding and Buying Cattle
THE ceremony on the farm does not differ materially from the true political economy of a nation. The most prosperous nations produce at home all that their resources will permit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Crossbred Wool
A VERY considerable proportion of the wool of the last fifteen years may be classed as "farmers' wool," and a very large per centage of the crossbred may be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep Management
IN former times, before the introduction of long woolled sheep into the colony, and when the merino was the only breed, the business of wool classing to an experienced person was a comparatively easy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Intelligence. Pastoral and A. Society
A COMMITTEE meeting was held, at the Town Hall, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. E. C. Blomfield, President, in the The minutes were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Yeoman. How to Prepare Wool for Market
THE attention of wool growers may be profitably directed to the following carefully written article, showing the number of important points in the preparation of…
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