Strange Experiences in Wheat Growing
TO ensure from 15 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre, feed the crop off when it is about 12 in. or 15in. high by pigs. "Pigs?" the reader will most likely say, "Why, they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New England · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1892
225 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 12
Bad Flavors in Butter
If you want the cows to yield perfect flavored milk do not let them eat leaks, fungus growths, or any noxious vegetation. This implies that you must have a clean…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden
The best definition of a weed is that it is a plant out of place. A corn plant, a wheat plant or a potato plant may be a weed by being too close together. Treat such as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rules for Dairying
DECIDE your line of dairying--butter or cheese, or both Select your cows according to true line of dairying chosen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Surplus Stock and the Fall in Wool
SIR,--Now that the wool sales have opened with, a fall of 15 per cent, and store sheep are unsaleable the necessity of dealing with our surplus stock promptly has become imperative, if the pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden
Two beeves can never be made fat on a pasture that has only grass enough for one. To keep the poultry free from vermin, their quarters must be kept absolutely clean…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Calculating Farmer
A BATHURST paper is responsible for the following :--A Queensland farmer needed water for his stock, and began to sink a well. It was a laborious operation. Gradually the work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral and Agricultural Association
THE usual monthly committee meeting was held at the Secretary's office on Thursday afternoon. There were in attendance--the President (Mr. J. F. Utz), and Messrs. Hodges, Carvell, Sargeant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Hints
K[?] the ducklings away from the pond or stream until after they are fully feathered, but see that they always have water enough to drink…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden
Hills of melons, cucumbers, and other plants, may be kept from chickens, and saved from being tramped on by covering with brush, or by loosely cording some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wages and Treatment of Farm Labor
The laborer has always resisted the introduction of labor-saving machines at the outset, sometimes to the destruction of the offending innovations, fearing that, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales. LONDON, Oct. 11
THERE is good competition at the wool sales, with firm prices for medium to better wools, but for falty sorts rates are still weak…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sowing Seed Wheat
It is very important to have a good quality of seed to insure success in growing a good crop of wheat. With a large class of farmers the general practice is to cave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden
Do not dig post-holes to plant trees in. Have the holes so large that every root can be in its natural position without any cramping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
WE Australian, Mortgage, and Agency Company) offered to-day 1850b ales of wool, and sold 14090 prices remaining about the same as Llat week. Greasy sold to 101[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shoddy and Wool in 1892
Wool is on the down-grade just now. It has been falling in price since the end of 1889. Nothing is heard of but over-supply; and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden
Foul air does not conduce to the health of stock anymore than to human beings. It does not pay to wash sheep and then handle the fleece so carelessly that it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers Co-operation
A VICTORIAN newspaper writes: The Rochester Yeomanry Company Limited has shown that it is possible for farmers to combine to run a business for their mutual benefit and make a success of it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nary An Army Worm. The Old Farmer Was No Raw Recruit if He Was Home-Grown
He was a gay young officer and Uncle Sam was in great luck to have such a nice hired man. The car was crowded, and he had to set his bright, new uniform right down beside a dingy,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our Young Folks' Letter. a Cochineal Farm
A must all young folks know that the little insect called the cochineal furnishes, when its body has been dried and reduced to powder, a colouring matter of a beautiful red, peculiar to itself. This circumstance…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →