Dehorning Cattle
WHEN the subject of dehorning cattle was first brought into public prominence by the arrest of its originator at the instance of the Humane Society of Illinois upon…
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Farming & the land, 1888
280 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 14
The Farmer & Grazier. Melons as Food for Cattle
THE melon has been frequently recommended as food for cattle; coming in; as it does, in the end of summer and beginning of autumn; when the weather is the driest and food the most scarce, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Furracabad Model Farm
OWING mainly to the energy and intelligence of the spirited manager, Mr. T. Black, backed up as it is by a stupenduous available capital, the above pastoral and agricultural venture has already forced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. Wool Sales
THE price of wool shows a general advance of a half-penny in the London market…
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AN American paper has the following short essay on "One Thing at a Time":—There is nothing more likely to happen, when a man takes in hand a multiplicity…
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The Minister for Mines isof opinion that M. Pasteur's offer for the secret of calculating the virus of the anthrax disease in sheep should be accepted, but, before…
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J. S. Tibbits, in the Salinas index, has the following to say concerning feeding apples to cows: --" It may not he generally known that apples are excellent feed for milch cows ; but such is a fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer & Grazier. Careful Milking
If every drop of milk in a cow's udder be not carefully removed at each milking the secretion will gradually diminish in proportion to the quantity left behind. Milking should be conducted…
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THE melon has been frequently recommended as food for cattle, coming in, as it dees, in the end of summer and beginning of autumn, when the weather is the driest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm. Calendar for June
KITCHEN GARDEN.—In this department care will be necessary to have coming forward the chief culinary crops in the open ground; and, under protection, a good breadth of your seedlings for planting later on…
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A meeting of the committee took place in the School of Arts on Friday afternoon, when there were in attendance --Messrs. C. Legh, Noble, King, H. C. St. Vincent, H. Sully, Taylor, Thomas, and…
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A translation from the. Kleinc Milch Zeitung states the following in relation to faults most frequently met with in butters, as determined at Hamburg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer & Grazier. Another Enenly to Wheat
A NEW pe§t has been discovered attacking young Wheat plants in several localities in England; The new enemy is a grub belonging to a beetle. It is thought to be the gibbous ground beetle. The grabs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. [Mort and Co.]
No auction sales this week, and no change therefore to report. Latest news from Europe is encouraging, and justifies the hope that late values will be fully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Budding and Grafting. a Few Practical Hints Upon These Important Subjects
Having been requested to give an opinion on the subject of 'Stocks, Grafting, and Pruning,' I accede with pleasure, though having but a few moments of leisure at my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbit Drives. the Sport of the Fresno Farmers. Tickling the Palate of the Swine with Cottontails
' At what is known as Wildflower Colony in Fresno county, twenty miles south west from the city of Fresno, is where the 10,000 rabbit drive took place last Friday,' remarked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dehorning Cattle
Somo years ago benevolent-minded people denounced the dehorning of cattle as a cruel practice, only worthy of barbarians. Lately the stock journals of the country have…
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A committee meeting was held at the School of Arts last Saturday, when the following gentlemen attended-- President Mr. C. Legh, also Messrs L. M. Seton, A. W. Chapman, G. Stevenson, G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Handling Skittish Cattle
AN Englishman of experince and very successful in breeding heifers, and even old cows which had acquired the kicking habit advises to operate—the heifer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inoculation of Sheep
A large share of attention is being devoted to the disease of Anthrax in sheep, known also as the Cumberland disease, with which many of the runs throughout the colony are infected, though it has…
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