The Yeoman. Farmers of Queensland, Salt Your Wheat Lands
THE following letter, which appeared in in the Queensland Times, is well worthy of perusal by our wheat farmers:—Sir—I have been once more induced to…
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Farming & the land, 1880
85 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 5
French Critic on Australian Sheep
ONE of the French commissioners to the New South Wales International Exhibition, M. de Savignon, professor of agriculture at the National Agricultural Institute of France, whose…
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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 throughout the country were…
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MAN is by nature a social being, and wherever circumstances may place him, he can never lose his characteristic love of companionship. The main road is…
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The cattle made a poor show, the principal breeders of the district being conspicuous by their absence. In fats, the prize was taken by a beast from Balaclava…
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Judges : Messrs, B. A. Moses and Farnsworth. Sheep dog; James Clark prize. Cattle dog, John Mitchell. Kangaroo dog, J. Whittle, and Mr. Hoyle…
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THE following very important article on wool sorting from the 'Sydney Mail, will, no doubt, be read with great interest by many of our numerous readers who…
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IN general only dried fruit is used from which to make the butter. They can and sometimes do, use the green fruit, but it is not so practicable in the cities. The principal kinds made…
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WE this week present to our readers the gist of an elaborate and interesting wool report, published in the Sydney Mail, the 17th of April, containing most instructive information for sheep owners as…
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AMONGST the correspondence of the Agricultural Gazette' is the following:—"Some years since I bought a lot of long-wool tegs in one of the midland counties in the…
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THERE is a right way and a wrong way, a hard way and an easy way, an awkward way and a skilled way, to catch and handle sheep. A great many men will catch the sheep by the wool on…
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THE serious effect which has been produced on the English and Irish butter trade by importations of foreign butter from Sweden, Denmark, Holland,…
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MR. W. Armstrong, of Hexham Park estate, near Hexham, is this year conducting an experiment, which will be watched with great interest by all sheep-owners, and which is likely…
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LATE experiences in keeping sheep on farms in Victoria must have led many to perceive that the system of depasturing their flocks which they have borrowed…
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THE 'Ohio Farmer' once gave this remedy for foot rot:—Three parts pure tar, one part pure white lead, two ounces finely-pulverised…
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THE dulness which had so weighed upon us through the long eventful afternoon was but a lull, we soon learned, and not a stagnation. With the first approach of darkness the lethargic…
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A LECTURE was delivered recently by Mr. Buckmaster, in the Corn Exchange, Grantham, with a view to forming classes for teaching the science of agriculture. After Mr. Buckmaster's…
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MANY think the only advantages of sheep are in their wool-producing properties, forgetting that they multiply with great rapidity, doubling the flock annually, and…
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MR. C. R. HALY, writes to the Courier on this subject as follows :-- " Having read of the great mortality amongst sheep in England, that scarcely a sheep has been…
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AFTER butter is properly washed and Baited before it is potted, the packages in which it has to be put, must be thoroughly cleansed so that the slightest taint…
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