Black-eared Cattle
WILHELM Rehustrom, the inventor of the lactoserine products which are known as 'skim-milk on the square,' told lately of a remarkable breed of cattle common to…
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Farming & the land, 1892
225 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 12
Pastoral and Agricultural Association
THE last meeting of the above previous to the show was held at the Secretary's office on Tuesday afternoon, at which there were in attendance the president and I I members of…
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"WILL HONEYCOMB" writes:—Wool has touched a very low price. It is within a shade, a correspondent writes, of the lowest touched during the past quarter of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Garden. Ammonical Solution
In an ordinary water pail dissolve 5 ounces of carbonate of copper in 3 pints of aqua ammonia having a strength of 26 per Cent. When completely dissolved, pour the…
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WRITING on the above subject the QUEENSLANDER says:-- After a careful survey of the wool trade for 1891 the wonder is not that prices should have, receded 12, per cent. on…
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LAND booms and mining booms have burst and many swindling building societies have speculated themselves into all-time doom, but the city is still thick with commercial thieves. They…
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"WILL Honeycomb" in the Dubbo Des PATCH, writes :--Wool has touched a very low price. It is within a shade, a correspondent writes, of the lowest touched during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ensilage for Sheep
RESPECTING the value of ensilage as a food for sheep a correspondent of the Field writes as follows:-- Having a small but good breeding stock of ewes, I determined two years ago to make…
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THE time is not very far distant when wool, hides and tallow were the chief products from our flocks that the owners depended upon to obtain the needful money with which to carry on their land…
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One of the hardest things to do is to make a valuable experiment in the field of agriculture. He who can put a question fairly and squarely to Nature, and wait perhaps a…
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Scaly legs may often be cured by simply wetting the legs of the fowl affected occasionally with crude petroleum. When crude oil is not to be had conveniently heavy oil or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Origin of Cattle
Prof. Boyd Dawkins, as the result of his investigations as to the origin of British breeds of cattle believes the two principal, stocks from which all the breeds are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Antwerp Wool Sales. London
THE Antwerp wool sales opened at a farthing to three farthings lower, the market being very fiat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Antwerp Wool Sales. London, March 17
THE Antwerp wool sales closed very flat. Nearly all the Australian, wool was withdrawn. The Union Mortgage and Agency…
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The fallow tree of China is so called from the fact that it produces a substance resembling tallow, and which is used for similar purposes. The fruit is enclosed within a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairying Hints
How curious it is that so many dairy and agricultural writers set forth the value and praise of skim milk as a food for calves, pigs and colts, and do it in such a way that…
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Large wheat seed, weighing, sixty-four pounds to the bushel, in four separate sewings in England, was the firsts to sprout, was taller, made better growth, and averaged ten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What a Farmer Should Do
Always believe in farming so long as it pays. Always blanket the warm horse standing, in the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Commercial Column. the London Wool Market. London
THE March series of London wool sales opened to-day; good attendance and fair competition. Merinos showed a decline of 5 per cent, upon the closing rates for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Sales. London
AT the wool sales there was an increased demand, and buyers were active. It is believed that merino wools have touched bottom…
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