Monster Sheep Shearing Party
WE in Queensland, says the Warwick Argus, often read accounts of a big shearing party here and there in the colony, but few stations we imagine can supersede over a quarter of a…
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Farming & the land, 1881
80 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 4
Origin of the Merino Sheep
AS the ancient Greeks had no cotton nor silk and very little linen, and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took peculiar pains to cultivate with especial…
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MR. Parcell, in the report of the New Jersey Agricultural Society, says: "It is important that the dairy stock from the young calf to the old cow that is being…
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Not content with sending beef to Liverpool and Glasgow, cutlery to Sheffield, and prints to Manchester (says the New York correspondent of the Adelaide Observer), this enterprising and…
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THE determination of the Exhibition commissioners to hold a special show of wool was one of the right things that body has done : the date, too, wag opportunely chosen to catch the best clips of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Yeoman. Dairy Cattle
[?] the production of beef no longer [?] to the farmer a royal road to wealth, [?] prefers solid reasons for preferring [?] branch of rural industry to dairying,…
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A WRITER in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE asserts that the farmer, having the most sane and natural occupation, ought to find life pleasant. He alone, strictly…
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NEAR the village of Beeton, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably one of the most extensive and successful things of the kind in the world…
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THE question whether shrivelled wheat should be used for seed or not has (says the Australasian) been much debated in all English-speaking countries during an indefinite length of…
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MALIGNANT epizootic catarrh is an epidemic accompanied by severe congestion and inflammation of the lining membrane of the nascal cavities, and sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yield of Butter From Cream
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,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. Milk Farming. (From the Australasian.)
THE American Jersey Cattle Club is one of the numerous associations originated during the last few years with the object of advancing the interests of owners of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Glen Innes General Sessions. Monday. (Before his Honor Judge Murray.) THE Court opened at 10 o'clock. SHEEP-STEALING
William Walters, on bail, appeared to answer the charge of stealing 27 sheep, the property of O. Bloxsome. The Crown Prosecutor entered a nolle prosecuti against Henry Walters, who had been…
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A WRITER in [?] MAGAZINE asserts chat the farmer, having the most sane and natural occupation, ought to find life pleasant. He alone, strictly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Fruit in Gardens. [?] Farmer.)
BUT few people seem to know the value of small fruits to n family when grown in their own gardens. You commence with strawberries; they continue for about a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. a Bee Farm. (Wargrave Magazine.)
NEAR the village of Beeton, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably one of the most extensive and succesful things of the kind in the world,…
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THE following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Argus: -- Sir, -- In your issue of the 1st inst. is an extract from a letter of Mr. J. D. Ellis to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Experimental Farming in India
MR. Wright, Officiating Director of Agriculture, North West Proviness, has recently issued a circular to the local [?] lars and ryots, giving details of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Healthy Homes for Animals. (From the Home and Farm.)
THE alarming prevalence of an epizootic affection among the horses of this country, and the serious amount of sickness that is said to be raging among the [?]ilch…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All Farms
[?]E says:—[?] people have more ready [?]dual possession than any [?] the world. It is not the…
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