Home and Farm Winter Care of Stock
Exposure to cold causes suffering. Suffering is at the expense of the vital forces, and wastes flesh. Flesh is wholly put on and maintained…
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Farming & the land, 1887
283 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 15
Wool Frauds
The alleged railway wool fraud cases against Messrs. Lee, M'Alister, and Buckland, resulted in the jury acquitting all three of them…
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FOR our (Harrison, Jones, and Devlin) fortnightly sale, held to-day (Monday), we catalogued 316 bales, and placed 231 by auction and privately. The biddings…
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THERE is a good deal of talk about the bad effects of using corn as food for live stock, not that we hear so much about its deleterious effects but rather because it is…
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PROFESSOR G. H Whitcher; Superintendent of the New Hampshire State Agricultural College at Hanover; sends us the subjoined account of an experiment in rapid butter making by the centrifugal…
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SPEAKING at a banquet the other night Mr. Wolseley said:--The most of his time had been passed in the quietude of the Australian bush--in which he had lived since he was 16 years of age--…
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A SEQUEL to a vendatta occurred last night (says a despatch from Texarksna, Arkansas, dated April 9th), on the farm of Walter Ridgley, 20 miles north of here. Four weeks ago…
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In the Assembly a short time hack, Mr. Copeland, one of the members for New England, spoke as follows on the above important subject. We take our report…
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THE following is said to he a sure test for ascertaining whether wall paper contains arsenic; Take a piece of paper and pour upon it strong aqua ammonia over a saucer. If…
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THE English method of bacon curing is as follows:--The carcase having been scraped clean, the cutting up should be accomplished by first taking off the head, then removing the backbone and the…
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IN the Assembly a short time back, Mr. Copeland, one of the members for New England, spoke as follows on the above important subject. We take our report…
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A WRITER in the HUSBANDMAN, who sells his butter for nearly twice quoted prices, prepares brine for butter in this way: He takes the best dairy salt and stirs in hot…
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SOME people are asking the question, "Does separator butter keep?" That is, will it keep as well as butter made from cream obtained by the old method of…
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YOU may have many highly-experienced dairy farmers who write in your columns, and [?] venture to ask them if the following plan is practicable:—Let a separator…
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A SHORT time ago, the papers in the Wide Bay district referred to cancer in cattle and the increase of the disease among human beings in that locality. With…
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IN the extreme south-west corner of Louisiana lies the largest producing farm in the world. It runs 100 miles north and south, and --miles east and west, and is owned and operated by a…
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THE Lincoln is the largest breed of sheep in the world, having, in some instances attained a dressed weight of nearly 400 pounds, They yield a beautiful fleece of lustrous wool…
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The stud sheep sales were continued yesterday, and the competition was again spirited. The highest price paid was 255 guineas. The sales during the day…
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THE following article which appeared in the Mail, a few weeks back, we publish by request:--Mr. Cottee, manager of the Australasian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, some months ago…
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THERE have been no auction sales this week, but enquiry is brisk, and in view of the satisfactory progress of the London sales values remain firm. Quotations:—…
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