Do Sheep Learn Their Names ?
Almost every domestic animal is capable of a degree of education. To teach young animals their names even, requires patience, perserverance and uniform kindness…
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Farming & the land, 1892
225 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 12
Farm and Garden
The chief exports from Fiji are sugar, coccannts, copra, fruit, cotton, molasses, peanuts, maize, coffee and fibre. In India, it is claimed that the cotton seed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, May 3.—The wool Bales contioue. Prices are unchanged…
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The night-flowering cactus usually open their blossoms at seven or eight in the evening, are full-blown by eleven, and by three or four in the morning they fade…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Points of a Dairy Cow
The practical dairyman has small concern for fancy markings. The points of a dairy cow in which he is interested are those characteristics which usually accompany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Agricultural Association
THE following is the annual report of the P. and . A. Association, which will be presented at the sixteenth annual meeting, on. 8th June :-- " Your Committee, in presenting their report for…
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MESSRS. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., report: We held a small wool sale on Friday, at which there was active competition, although the offerings were only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grooming the Farm Horse
One-tenth of the care bestowed on a great sporting horse would make a farm horse feel too proud of itself. But there is little risk of such a horse ever feeling too proud…
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A colt should never know how much strength he has until he knows how to use it. If he once runs away he is never a safe horse afterward and, while be may to all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Antwerp Wool Sales. London
At the opening of the Antwerp wool sales, to-day, the quantity catalogued included 8000 bales from River Plate. Buyers operated freely at an advance of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preparing Wool for Sale
A PASTORALIST in the Rangitikei district, now on a visit to London, gives the following as the result of his inquiries from wool buyers and others connected with the trade as to the best…
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ON[?] [?] [?]care bestowed on [?] [?] sporting horse would make a farm horse feel too proud of itself. But there is little risk of such a horse ever feeling too proud…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Garden. Husk--parasitic Bronchitis
In this as in any other infectious or communicable affection, sick animals should invariably be separated from each other, and especially from the well ones. Besides it is…
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London, May 23.—This list for the next series of wool sales has closed. The arrivals number 425,000 bales, of which 58,000 bales have been forwarded to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Salt for Dairy Cattle
Better than salting cows even once a week, is keeping salt by them all the time. The animals will not eat more than they want, and what their appetite craves their nature…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Wool at the World's Fair
AT a meeting, of the Chicago Exhibition Commission held at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, on the 20th May, Mr. Winchcombe moved, "That it is desirable that a wool expert be sent to Chicago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Co-operation Among Farmers. the Broad of Progress
THE success which has attended the farmers co-operative movement in the Berrima district should lead every inland, district of this colony to enter upon co-operative work in dairying and…
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Select a quiet nook for your hen where the rest of the flock will not bother her. A roomy box or barrel will answer the purpose very well. Hay makes the best nesting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farmers of the North and Black Laeocr. Mackay, June 3
A FARMER names [?]son has been [?]ed 10s. aDd costs for allowing a kanaka to milk a cow. In another case a farmer's wife, who is alone with a kanaka on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Talk on Butter
BUTTER colour is a nice thing, but do you all need to use it[?] We saw some wintermade butter of a light golden hue that did not contain a grain of artificial colouring…
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