Farm and Garden
There is no abatement in the rage for gray tints this season, and Etain, or tin color, Martinel, Bergeronnette, a pale olive gray and silver sand are added to the already lengthy…
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Farming & the land, 1887
283 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 15
Proper Depth to Sow Wheat
The RURAL NEW YORKER publishes an interesting report of a series of experiments carried out at Cornell University, the object in view being to determine the proper depth at…
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THE flour market exhibits no fresh movement, buyers operating is small lines only at the following quotations:—Adelaide, £9 10s. to £9 15s.; South Australian,…
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IN the absence of auction sales, there is little to add to our last report under this heading. There is a good private demand, especially for shipping lines of…
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FEEDING FOWLS. -- No fowls require, at most, more than three meals per day; and as a rule, do far better with two. The first should, or in confinement must, consist of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farmer & Grazier. Apple Trees from Cuttings
THE following extract from an English I paper gives fruit-growers a hint that is generally unknown :--The sooner cuttings are now taken from the trees and planted firmly in a…
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ON Friday afternoon a meeting of the committee took place in the School of Arts. There were in attendance--The President, and Messrs. Osborne, Grover, Sargeant, Wrigley, Carvall, Mitchell,…
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THE following particulars, culled from Mr. James Bonwick's work, Romance of the Wool Trade respecting the condition of sheep husbandry in the early days of Australia, will not be…
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AN our auction sale this week the wools Offered were for the most part more or less faulty, but competition was brisk, and nearly everything offered was sold at full…
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WOOL offered, 11,700 bales. The market is quiet. Crossbreds are firm. Faulty scoured and iambs' wool showed a downward tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer & Grazier. Two Crops of Lambs in One Year
A WRITER in the Live Stock Journal says :-- A farmer in Wales told me, in the presence of several farmers who knew him, of his having two crops of lambs in one year. This I at once doubted,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. Proposed Farmers' Union. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—As your journal has so often set forth the hardships and disadvantages that the fanning community labour under, may I ask you to insert…
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THERE is no demand for wheat; the arrivals are passed into store; prices being nominal for prime milling samples; inferior, for poultry, selling at from 2s. 6d…
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TWELVE thousand six hundred bales of wool were offered on Friday. The tone of the market was irregular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General News. Police Court.—tuesday, Sept. 13. (Before the P.M.) Destruction of Sheep
MARGARET Pickham v. Rev. J. Carruthers.—Damages sustained by destruction of sheep by a dog owned by defendant. Mr. Kearney for complainant; Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence. to the Farmers of New England. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—It being a well-known fact that thousands of bushels of wheat, of a splendid character, are now held by you ready for market, while the mills in…
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A simple and safe method of curing footrot in sheep is practised by a sheepowner in this colony. Mr. W. T. Hosie, of Bundella, Cadia, who has been using the lime cure with success, but not dry…
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THE English cables to hand respecting the series now in progress are rather unsatisfactory, and opposite to the anticipated result. Prices on all except…
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AT the wool sales, medium and inferior greasy and medium and inferior clothing washed have declined ½d. per lb. Medium to good scoured merino and inferior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Dehorned Jerseys
JOHN BROOKS of Worcester county, Mass., writes to the Rural New Yorker: "I have a small herd of dehorned Jerseys. They are all pedigreed stock, not like the 'hornless'…
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