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New England · Farming & the land
280 stories in New England's papers · page 11 of 14
THE following hints in a paragraph taken from an exchange should set our fruit-growers a-thinking:-- Peach trees growing near the house where dish-water and wash-water are thrown out, are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MESMERIC PLANT.--A plant grows in Mixteca, Mexico, which the natives call the 'lierb of prophecy.' A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The tone of the wool market is animated, and at yesterday's sale 12,700 bales were offered, making a total of 57,000 catalogued since the opening of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE is little to notice respecting breadstuffs. The flour market is steady; roller brands, £10 to £12; stone makes, £9 10s. to £11…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR first sale of new clip will be held on the 26th instant, by which time we shall be in possession of the result of the first week's operations at the London sales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NO cultivated fruit brings a surer crop than the cherry, and few are more profitable. The cherry loves a very dry soil." Too much wet is injurious to the tree, and if the season is very moist insects…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An incubator may be described as a limied chamber, the temperature of whose atmosphere its humidity or moisture, its freedom from noxious gases, are under the control of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DESPITE the fact of the weather being beautifully fine last Wednesday--the day set down for holding the above--the attendance of farmers on the racecourse to witness the horse parade, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The best bank in which the farmer can make deposits in his own farm, says the Iowa Homestead. "There is no danger of robbery, no defaulting cashier, no president that can skip out to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MESSRS. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. (Limited) report:—We offered 900 bales new clip yesterday. A large attendance of buyers, and prices if anything a shade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TIN of butter—part of churning made by Mrs. Burton, New Plymouth, New Zealand, in September last, which had been sent on a voyage to London in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE brought forward a small catalogue of new clip for sale on Wednesday; many of the lots were in indifferent condition, and the biddings therefore afford very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, October 15.—The late advance for best merino combings is fully upheld, bat the weakness is more pronounced for short, faulty, and scoured, except for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have learned by long experience about making what I call good butter, and preserving it nice and sweet after it is made. To keep butter good that is made in the fall is one thing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is said that caterpillars and other pests of trees and shrubbery may be destroyed by boiling the stems and leaves of tomato plants and pouring the liquid upon the afflicted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One of the market requirements in batter is that it should be of a rich yellow or golden colour. The fact that grass butter always has a rich shade without resorting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We offered 1400 bales at our third wool sale to-day, and have sold since last report 1581 bales. Market very buoyant and competition brisk. Alex. Cox's wool from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is a description of English sheepwashing. It is this remarkable operation that adds from 20 to 30 per cent to the price of wool: "We were going up the village and heard a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LORD BYRON, if our memory serves right, characterised the modern times as wonderful, and instanced several inventions which in those times were new in support of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A powerful disinfectant, adapted to all purposes has been obtained in Paris from coal oil. It is a sirup-brown liquid of a not disagreeable odor, resulting from a peculiar…
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