Shearing Sheep in Cold Weather
ATTENTION has been called (says an English paper) to the cruelty of shearing sheep too early in the season, and we have been shown a copy of a caution to…
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Farming & the land, 1880
85 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 5
The Yeoman. a Good Farm Makes Good Stock
SOMEONE has said "the character of the stock on a farm depends essentially upon the cultivation and condition of the soil." Grass is not only the natural food, but the…
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MR. Buckmaster, before a well-attended meeting of farmers, held at Tadley, In England, the other day, to consider a scheme for teaching the science of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jersey Cattle for Our Dairies. (From the Toowoomba Chronicle.)
THE dairy must erewhile become one of our chief agricultural industries. At the present time a large number of people are engaged in it, but on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. (By Henry Stewart, in Rural New Yorker.) the Dairy
IF the first requisite for good butter is the cow, the second is the dairy room or house, for it is useless to procure good milk, if it is spoiled in the keeping. A…
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IN needs not to say, writes the Otago Times, that sheep are an important factor in the profits and comforts of the inhabitants of the world. A writer with statistical predilections writes:--…
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"COTSWOLD" writes to the Australasian as follows:--Any person is justified in making his business pay according to his means and ability to do so. In regard to fair shearing, after stud…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer and Grazier. Can Farming Be Made to Pay
THIS question was recently the subject of a paper read by Mr. John Grigg, of Longbeach, on the Canterbury province of New Zealand, to this fellow members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girdling the Grapevine. (J. W. C. in the Scientific Farmer.)
THE girdling of a grapevine has a very marked influence on the fruit it causes it to grow much larger to ripen sooner and makes it of better flavour. Girdling…
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The difficulty of procuring hands in harvest time in Ontario has caused farmers to endeavour to meet the emergency by substituting horse power for…
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THE 'London Lancet' says:—For some time a great mortality has prevailed among sheep, and the destruction reported is something appalling…
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AT the last monthly meeting of the Avoca Plains Farmers' Club, Mr. E. Rankin in the chair, Mr. Hodgson read the following paper giving the results of "Ten…
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SOME experiments made by Mr. A. Wilkinson, of Natal, with carbolic acid amongst a herd of cattle, and communicated to the 'Natal Mercury,' are worth…
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DR. Heath Prendert, of the Farmers' Club of the America Institute, recently read an entertaining paper on this subject, which we condense as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yield of Butter From Cream. (H. Stewart, in Country Gentleman.)
I HAVE, for some time past, kept accurate account of the quantity of cream put into the churn and the butter taken out, and I find that one quart of pure cream,…
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To keep sweet potatoes over winter, so as to use them for raising plants in the spring, it is essential that they should be kept warm and dry; to this end pack…
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ALLUDING to the rapid deterioration of Californian wheat, the 'San Francisco Chronicle' says, and the words have a value for the New South Wales farmer:—…
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EVERY farmer should have a room, large or small, provided with a bench and vice, where many little jobs may be done that cost money if carried to the mechanic, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Feeding Horses. (Record and Farmer.)
A GREAT diversity of opinion prevails as to the best methods of feeding horses, and mistakes are frequently made by neglecting to give suitable attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Glen Innes Police Court. Tuesday Afternoon. (Before the Police Magistrate, James Martin, and E. Jones, J.P.'s. Illegally Rescuing Cattle
Andrew Fletcher, Archibald Fletcher, and Donald M' Intyre appeared on summons to answer the charge of illegally rescuing 160 head of cattle. Mr. T. J. Kearney, assisted by Mr…
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