China and Japan As a Market for Our Wool
THE praiseworthy efforts that are being made in Melbourne to open up a trade with China and Japan for Australian wool are deserving of every encouragement. In all…
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Farming & the land, 1885
118 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 6
Model Farms and Practical Farming
AN immensity of good, no doubt, is done in the world by model farms and experimental cultivation under Government auspices ; but something more is required. Farmers are apt to say,…
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SOME of the wealthiest and most successful owners of cattle in the Far West are women. A Denver lady, who was a poor clerk in a sewing machine house fifteen years ago, is now the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Calendar for October
KITCHEN GARDEN.—All work must be pushed on vigorously. The planting of peas and beans, with the sowing of all crops, should be finished early. Keep…
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STRONG testimony in favour of silage as food for dairy cows was given by two witnesses before the Ensilage Commissioners last week. The first was Mr. Broderick,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Calendar for November
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Keep up during the favourable (shower) weather sowings of all the salad plants, prepare trenches for the reception of celery. Plain out for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crop Prospects tn the United Kingdom
ACCORDING to the MARK LANE EXPRESS, which has been at some pains to arrive at a correct estimate of the yield of the crops in the harvest now being gathered, wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Calendar for November
KITCHEN GARDEN.—Keep up during the favourable (shower) weather sowings of all the salad plants, prepare trenches for the reception of celery. Plain out for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle
THE Great Northern Wool Dumping and Shipping Co. held their second sale at Newcastle to-day, with very satisfactory results. There was a fair attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
WE (the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company) offered to-day 44,000 bales, and sold over 3000 bales. The Tatanga clip, from Western district, brought…
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WRITING on the subject of the production of wool by farmers, the TRIBUNE remarks :-- To get up wool in the proper condition for market, care is necessary from the time of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bald Nob Cattle Stealing Case
IN the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, before the Chief Justice John Fletcher, sen., and John Fletcher, jun., were charged with having, at Kingsgate, stolen a bull and two heifers, the…
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John Fletcher, senior, and John Fletcher, junior, were indicted for having on October 4, 1884, at King's Gates, Glen Innes, stolen two heifers and two calves,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Points that make Farming Pay
PROBABLY the fact that the majority of the New Zealand agricultural societies have annual publications in which their transactions are permanently recorded, explains why the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Keeping" Property of Butter
Professor L. B. Arnold, writing to the New York Tribune, remarks as follows: —"Mr. J. B. Smith writes from Ohio that in patterning after the methods…
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THERE is no doubt that it is better to wash than to work the milk out of butter. When we understand that buttermilk contains, besides water, unchurned cream, cheese, sugar and mineral matters,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints to Small Wool Growers
DON'T throw your wool together anyhow. A little care in preparing for market will be well repaid. Don't tic your fleeces with string. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holidays for Farmers
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