How Many Sheep to the Acre
MR. B. F. Magee, in an able address before the Indiana Sheep Growers' Association, in speaking of pasturing sheep, says: —"There is one thing about pasturing…
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Farming & the land, 1880
85 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 5
The Inter-national Wool Show. (From Monday's Echo.)
THE Judges in the wool section, after a long rest, assembled on Saturday afternoon to complete their labours, and before dusk succeeded in working through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shorthorn Dairy Cows. (From the American Agriculturalist.)
BEFORE Shorthorns were known as a race, or rather before they grew into notoriety as a breed, for they had the reputation as a race before any record of pedigrees…
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AN article on "The Crops of 1879," brings before the public the full dimensions of a national disaster. That the wheat crop has this year proved a failure scarcely equalled, if equalled, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tranmere Baby-farming Case
AT the Chester Assizes, before Lord Justice Brett John Barnes, 41. described as a publican, of Higher Tranmere, and Catherine Barnes, 28, his wife, were charged with the wilful murder Of three children--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Sheep Husbandry
SHEEP husbandry of late has received more attention, and will continue to gain in the estimation of men settling in this state, until all the vacant prairies are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Straw As Food for Cattle
TO form a strictly fair comparison between the different descriptions of straw, it would be necessary that each kind of straw should be cut at exactly the same…
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THE following extract is from a work published in London, entitled "Dairy Farming," by J. P. Sheldon:—The first thing a young beginner must do…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming in the Old World and the New
THE " agricultural depression" which has for many months constituted so prominent a topic of European news, led to the appointment of a Royal commission of inquiry into the causes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tales and Sketches. "Only a Farmer." (From the Southern Farmer's Monthly)
"DID you ever hear of such a queer match?" said Mrs. Spriggins, as she "dropped in," as usual, to gossip with her near neighbour, Mrs. Bennett. "You mean the report about John Green and that…
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WHEAT growers in Australia will be interested to learn that the American State which owed its first prosperity to the discovery of gold, and when that industry waned to its marvellous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Rust in Australian Wheat
IT will be an unparalleled disaster for Australia if, after having achieved the proud distinction of being the producer of the finest wheat in the world, her productive powers were to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Memoranda Concerning Pleuro Pneumonia in Cattle
1 Attention is first directed to an animal suffering from pleuro, by its standing apart from the other cattle, its not feeding, and seldom lying down until just before the death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Effect of Nitrogen Upon Crops
ACCORDING to the 'Agricultural Gagette, some interesting experiments have been made in Scotland by the Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tales and Sketches. a Bridal Veil. (Prairie Farmer.)
A PRETTY, dark-eyed girl began to work it, whose lover was over the sea. "She was a French girl, and came of a family of lace-makers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How the Stock on the Farm May Be Improved
Unquestionably the most profitable course for the general farmer to adopt in improving the quality of his live stock is to begin by the purchase of first-class thoroughbred males. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Systems of Butter Making
THE serious effect which has been produced on the English and Irish butter trade by importations of foreign butter from Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France, and also from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lincoln Sheep
An old sheep farmer writes of the Lincolnshire 'sheep, and says:—The Lincolnshire is the king of longwoolled breeds for bearing. While ewes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Crash in Wheat
THE speculative crisis in wheat, which has existed for some time in New York, culminated, we hear, on January 24, when thousands of small speculators…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How to Grow Wheat
A MICHIGAN correspondent of the Michigan Farmer' says:— A good rank crop of large red clover, treated with two or three hundred pounds of plaster (gypsum)…
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