Pyrethrum for Sheep-ticks
A CORRESPONDENT recommends to the readers of the Prairie Parker that wool-growers who hare been in the habit of annually using the patent "dips" so…
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Farming & the land, 1885
118 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 6
Farm, Field, & Garden. Green Fertilisers
THE most rational method of increasing the fertility of the soil is to plough under the crops that grow upon it. A person may argue that there is no gain of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Latest Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. Wool Sales
THE wool sales opened on Tuesday. There was only a moderate attendance of buyers. The tone of the markets is flat. Combing merinoes and Cape sorts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stopping a Cattle Stampede
IT happened in America, of course. The story is told by a passenger from the West :--"One of the smartest things I ever saw in my travels," he said, " was a cowboy stopping…
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EVERY farm should be an experiment station, and every farmer an experimenter. We don't mean by this that the whole farm mid the whole time of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm, Field, & Garden. Calendar for February
KITCHEN Garden.—Usually light showers characterise this month, and as the ground is warm germination of seeds sown is rapid and growth vigorous. Sow hugely of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Food for Sheep
THE most economical and appropriate combination of food for fattening sheep, says Professor W. Sanborn, will depend upon the cost of different foods in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bones on the Farm
IT is well enough known that bone, when ground fine, makes one of the best and cheapest manures, especially on lands long in use. The needs of farmers with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm, Field, & Garden. Calendar for February
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Usually light showers characterise this month, and as the ground is warm germination of seeds sown is rapid and growth vigorous. Sow largely of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Bright on the Price of Wheat
THE 'Salisbury and Westminster Journal publishes a long letter from Mr. Bright, dated 18th December, in which he replies to observations made by Mr. Lywood at a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farmig. Pasturing Milch Ows
THERE is a steady abaterent going on in the old-time practice of depending solely on grazing for the [?]port of milch cows during the whole f the summer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm, Field, & Garden. Calendar for February
KITCHEN Garden.—Usually light showers characterise this month, and as the ground is warm germination of seeds sown is rapid and growth vigorous. Sow largely of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hints to Farmers
LORD Vernon, speaking to his tenants at the dinner following the rent audit at Poynton recently, said that in Derbyshire he now farmed 300 acres, and could…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm, Field, & Garden. Calendar for February
KITCHEN Garden.—Usually light showers characterise this month, and as the ground is warm germination of seeds sown is rapid and growth vigorous. Sow largely of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Association's Show
THE ninth annual exhibition under the auspices of the above society came off on the Show Ground Last Thursday and Friday. Wednesday and Thursday were the days originally intended, but owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Wool Washing Machine
AN ingenious wool-washing machine has (says the Melbourne 'Leader') been invented and patented by Mr. W. Wilkinson, of Footscray. The advantages claimed for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The [?]oman and Grazier. The Plethora of Wheat
IT is a remarkable fact that all over the world, as pointed out by Mr. S. Williamson, M.P., in an article on Agricultural and Commercial Depression," in an English paper, wheat is being grown at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Clarence River and North Coast Farmers' Association
It is satisfactory to find that the farmers of the Clarence River and North Coast Rivers have found thoroughly solid results from the establishment of an association for the receipt and disposal of their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat As a Feeding Stuff. (From the Farmer.)
MR. A. J. Burrows, of Pluckley, agent to Sir E. C. Bering, Bart., writes as follows: —Having during several periods of great depression in the wheat market used this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Calendar for March
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Tills should be a period of great activity. Exhausted growths of peas, beans, and other crops should be promptly removed, and preparations be made for thoroughly manuring and washing the…
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