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New England · Farming & the land
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MESSRS. HARRISON, JONES & DEVLIN report:- We offered 2600 bales. Biddings were very spirited, especially for good wools which maintained values well faulty and skirty lots favor buyers, and are more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On a small plot of ground enough fruit can he grown, if proper care is given, to supply a family of ordinary size three times a day the year through. I am aware that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It does not follow that raisin-making will pay here in the foothills on a large scale, as it does in Fresno. There they have perfectly level land. Every bunch of grapes is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MESSRS. J. H. GEDDES & CO. report that they submitted at the 14th sale on Friday, 147O bales of good sound greasy and bright scoured parcels, without, however, any very superior samples of either…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The complaint has frequently been made that in Victoria (says the Leader) a livelihood cannot be made irrespective of wheat-growing with a small block of 320 acres and even with 6.10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In spring-time, when the apple trees are blossoming, I have said that a walk along the lanes of Dorset--and West Dorset particularly -- is indeed a continual feast for the eye, orchard following orchard in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London correspondent of the Northwestern Miller recently gave a statement of the Wheat crop of the world for 1889. The title compares as follows with previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A farmer in China may he hired by the year for from $8 to $14, with food, clothing, head shaving and tobacco. Those who work by the day receive from 8 cents to 10 cents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The poultry business has also entered upon anew line--theraising of broilers for spring. With the invention of artifical methods for hatching and raising broods came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not long since attention was drawn by the Bradford Observer to the fact that when fashion turned from the bright, hard-haired wools to those of a softer quality, it caused large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MESSRS. HARRISON, JONES & DEVLIN report:--We Offered 2000 bales of wool. There was a large attendance of buyers, but owing to cablegrams reporting a decline in the market from London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since independence was achieved the United States Government has been the largest owner of arable land on the earth. The total area of the 'public domain,' sold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waldo F. Brown, in the Cultivator and Country Gentleman, strives to impress on every farmhand the importance of saving and safely investing a part of his wages. If he sayes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN ingenious plan to save a dying pear tree was adopted in the garden of L. M. Chase, of Boston, U.S.A. The mice had girdled the tree so that it seemed bound to die, Mr. Chase planted four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The leaks in the roots of farm buildings are not by any means all the leaks that farmers have to contend against. Not a fefarmers buy costly implements, and, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the returns at present available it can now be definitely asserted that the corn crop of the United States for the present year is the largest ever harvested. It will, in all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1. To make the finest flavored and longest keeping butter, the cream must undergo a ripening process by exposure to the oxygen of the air while it is rising. The ripening is very tardy when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An excellent rabbit-proof fence may he made by placing a 9-inch redwood board four inchss below the surface and above that putting three pine boards of the same width,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A San Diego man has invented an appliance for the destruction of scale insects. It consists of an apparatus which sends a blast of sand, either hot or cold, against the tree…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Analysis has demonstrated that the Muscat grape grown in this vicinity is superior by 8 or 10 per cent in raisin-making qualities to the product of any other section of the State…
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