Farm and Garden
Test your own cows by taking ordinary glass tumblers of equal size. Keep milk from each cow separate and strain, using a tumbler for each cow. Don't fill too fall…
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Farming & the land, 1894
289 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 15
The One-horse Farmer
THE one-horse farmer is sneered at, laughed at, and commiserated, and yet we have seen one-horse farmers with 40 or less acres of land who could lend money to their more pretentious…
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None of the thoroughbred breeds of cows have the exclusive production of fine butter. What are known as common cows, if well selected and fed as they should be, will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Few Words on Sheep Dipping
IN days of old it was deemed necessary to dip sheep only as an alternative to their destruction by disease. Not until scab began to mark the flock with its fateful brand was the dipping bath ever…
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AT the sales to-day there was good competition for medium wools…
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THE editor of DALGETTY'S MONTHLY REVIEW has received the following letter in regard to the American market for Australian wools, and as the subject possesses much…
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Flour: New South Wales old roller at £8 to £8 5s., Victorian stone £7 10s. to £7 15s., new roller £7 15s. to £8. Wheat, dull and plentiful; new milling quoted…
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BULLETIN 90 of the North Carolina station relates some experiments with sunflowers as a farm crop. In Russia the sunflower has been grown as a general farm crop for years, and…
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The removing of the corn husks, as a means for increasing the crop, does not seem to be obtaining much favor. It was a very pretty theory, but had its beginning and…
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A CONTEMPORARY remarking on the low price of wheat and other farm produce, has the following interesting and instructive reference to the profitable farming and its reverse :--…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sheep Dog Trials
Amongst the attractions of the show, certainly one of the greatest was the trial of sheep dogs on Friday morning. It will be remembered that, at previous shows, but…
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THE New Zealand Land Association, Limited (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited) report that they are in receipt of a message dated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Editor's Column. [?] (While giving insertion to Correspondents Letters. we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Dipping Sheep
SIR,--I notice an article in last Friday's issue of your journal, under the heading "A few words on sheep dipping," the contents of which I fully endorse; and would urge upon your readers in the…
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Fewer eggs will be gathered if the hens are crowded. Fowls two years old are, as a rule, best for breeding purposes…
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A SETTLER living near the town of Russell, in Kansas State, was found murdered a few weeks ago. Three farmers, neighbours of the deceased,…
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ACTIVE preparations are (says the Melbourne Age of Wednesday) being made to arrange for the granting of loans in small sums to farmers but it will be some little time before any money…
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AS this disease has been very much in evidence during the past two seasons on country that previously was to all intents sound, and the losses very heavy, owners in some…
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The horse is an almost unknown animal in the interior of China, and his place is taken by the domesticated buffalo or Water ox. This is rather a diminutive animal, as…
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The rotation of crops is an established principle in our agriculture; but a rotation without clover is a rotation without reason. Make that the basis…
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In the Assembly last night the Government stated that only farmers who could pay best had ignored the demand, and had been proceeded against for recovery of money due on…
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