Roasting a Sheep on the Thames
ON Saturday afternoon, a singular sight, reminding one of the "seasonable weather"so often alluded to be that never extinct individual "the oldest inhabitant" was witnessed on the part of…
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Farming & the land, 1881
80 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 4
The Yeoman. Reaping Twenty Square Miles of Wheat
THE poetry of the harvest field will be re-written. A correspondent of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, writing from the Dalrymple farm, furnishes the rough…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. Live Stock Problems. (From the Prairie Farmer.)
THERE prevails a most erroneous notion or feeling about "breed." It has been looked upon as some especial mystic quality, some aristocratic essence, by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Length of Bees' Tongues. (From the Prairie Farmer.)
ANY person, who has been an observer of bees to any extent, will notice this peculiarity, that occasionally a swarm of bees will accumulate a great deal more honey…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. Wheat Culture. (San Fransisco Bulletin.)
THE large number of new varieties of wheat which will be tested this season in various parts of California, give reason to hope that permanent good will result to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Farmer's Study
A WRITER in the WATERBURY AMERICAN recently visited T. S. Gold, in Cornwall, and thus glows over the place:—"A farmer's study! We have seen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cattle Plague on the Plains. (From the New York Commercial Bulletin.)
MUCH alarm and excitement prevails at Sante Fe. New Mexico, owing to a sudden and unaccountable mortality among cattle on the vast grazing plains of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Make Home Attractive. (From the Prairie Farmer.)
"He preaches, I practice," is what Dr. Changing, the M.D., said of his brother the minister. It is easy to preach to our neighbours, but how few there are of us…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Wrinkle in Butter-making
WHILE the potency of the press as a means of human progress is well known aud appreciated, and in particular the aid it is rendering agriculture is so generally understood as not to need…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improving Cattle
ONE who is desirous of improving his own stock of cattle may at the same time also confer a great benefit on his neighbourhood or county by purchasing a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Farmer's Study
A WRITER in the WATERBURY AMERICAN recently visited T. S. Geld, in Cornwall, and thus glows over the place:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Principle of Judging Cattle
THE subject cannot, it oppears, be too freely or fully discussed. Some great advantages have recently followed its discussion in the past. In saying this I refer more especially to the alterations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Yeoman. Farm Work for Autumn. (Abraham Lincoln's Circular.)
THIS season of the year in as important to the stockowner and farmer as any part of the twelve months, and in an acknowledged grazing country "good grass land…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. Farm Stock in Health and Disease. (From the Field.)
AMONG the ailments to which farm stock are subject, constipation is one of the most common, and perhaps the least regarded. An attack of diarchoea is at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Yeoman. Flavour in Butter. (From the Irish Farmer.)
THE question as to whether food of a certain nature is the cause of a given sample of butter being tainted could often be determined by the careful observation of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Errors in Stock Raising. (Prairie Farmer.)
A SUBSCRIBER asks us whether the tendency of any kind of stock is to degenerate and revert to its primitive condition, notwithstanding that it is kept pure and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reaping Twenty Square Miles of Wheat
THE poetry of the harvest field will be rewritten. A correspondent of the Chicago TRIBUNE, writing from the Dalrymple farm, furnishes the rough materials for one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colonial Wool
ANOTHER instance of the growing competition with which one branch of English trade after another is threatened (observes the London Daily Telegraph), under the innuence of the bounties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Management of Sheep
FROM a recently-published work, issued in London, by Ward, Lock, and Co., we take the following article on the "General Management of Sheep," and although the hints therein given are perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Way to Improve Sheep
AS there are many new beginners in wool growing, with little experience, a word from one who has had some experience might not be amiss. To handle a lot of…
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