Field, Farm. & Garden. How to Judoe a Horse
The TURF, FIELD, AND FARM thinks the following rules will be useful to all parties about to buy a horse: 1. Never take the seller's word. If…
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Farming & the land, 1883
81 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 5
Field, Farm, & Garden. a Dairy Lesson
DR. Voelcker gave a lecture on cheesemaking some time ago to a number of farmers' wives and dairy-women in England. At the close of his remarks a lady…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Feeding Cattle
A REGULAR system of feeding a number of cattle or sheep upon farms, as a part of the farm work, of course necessitates the growing of suitable crops for their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm & Garden. Economy in Stock Feeding
WHEN once it is fully and generally realised that the health of young animals is almost without exception simply according to Hie food and attention they receive,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. a Dairy Cow
A cow never reaches perfection in her line until she has arrived at maturity; and she must reach this period of her life with all her faculties unimpaired if we…
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REFERRING to the letter of a correspondent, "Enterprise," we observe that, so far as we know, there is nothing to prevent any one purchasing imported…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telephone for Farmers
To make a good, serviceable telephone, good from one farm house to another, only requires enough wire and two cigar boxes. First, select your boxes and make a hole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. How to Milk
MUCH harm has been done by the old injunction to "milk as rapidly as possible." Never attempt to hurry the operation; milk steadily and keep the milk drawn as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About Sheep
FROM prize flocks reported to Home and Farm we extract the following:—On the first day of February I put my ewes on a meadow of fourteen acres, that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. Incubators v. HENS
WHETHER there is more profit in artificial hatching than by the services of setting hens is an unsettled point, for everything depends on the management in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. Sheep Shearing
THE New England HOMESTEAD gives the record of thirty-five sheep sheared at the Vermont sheep breeders' second annual shearing, April 4 and 5. The gross weight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Are Our Sheep Improving?
THE report of the Department of Agriculture gives the number of sheep for 1861 as 21,500,000 and the production of wool as 55,000,000 pounds. This gives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Notes
THE lawn should be the first consideration in the spring. Healthy, well fed grass will keep green in a dry time easier than weak grass. This is why top…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. Profitableness of Farming
THERE are different ways of looking at the profitableness of fanning, and the prospect is rosy and gloomy according to the standpoint from which it is viewed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field, Farm, & Garden. October Corresponds to April in Great Britain
Kitchen Garden.—A full crop of beans may be sown in a warm border of light rich earth; draw the drills an inch deep and two feet asunder, and allow two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Field Farm & Garden. Short-horns and Ayrshires for the Dairy
ROBERT M'Adam at the eighth annual meeting of the Ayrshire Breeders Association New York city Feb. 20 1883 read…
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THE following extract is from an article in the American Agriculturist:-- An acre can produce 600 dollars in poultry, and the capital required returned by the poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sheep Feeding Device
WILLnone of our farmers, Bays the QUEENSLANDER, or those of our sheep breeders who cultivate artificial grasses, give the chevaux-de-frise hurdle system of grazing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field, Farm, & Garden. Improve Your Poultry
IT is too much the case that the general run of farmers are utterly neglectful of that seemingly small, yet profitable branch of home industry, the breeding, rearing,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Alligators
THE alligator fisher finds his most remunerative business in the capture of the newly-hatched or rather still juvenile reptiles. Great is the excitement when…
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