Some American Dairy Pointers
FEED the cows as regularly as you milk them. Beware of big horns and a fleshy udder on a milch cow; they are bad points…
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Farming & the land, 1894
289 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 15
Farm for Leeches
G. E. Walsh, Suffolk Co., N.Y.: In North Carolina, not far from Greenville, there is a leech farm, where nearly all of the leeches used for medical purposes, in…
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It is just as important to adopt labor saving devices for the house as for the field. The separator is one of the things that will relieve the women folks immensely, if even…
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Mr, C. L. Gabrilson, secretary of the Iowa Dairymen's Association, and a practical private dairyman, read u paper on the above topic before the Iowa Convention, from which we select as…
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LONDON, May 11.—At the wool sales to-day the competition was brisk to the fact that the Whitsun recess will extend to the 16th inst. The following sales are…
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IN an article in The Cable, the Rev. S. Currie says :-- I have never known a child to be spoiled for society or usefulness by learning to milk, and I do know ladies who can grace the society of…
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When prices are low the wise man does not rail against the times, but settles down into an effort to make them better so far as he is personally concerned. The farmer…
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There is no part of the process involved in making an extra quality of butter that is of equal importance with properly working it. That the buttermilk and water must be…
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LONDON, Monday.—Faulty wools continue slow of sale, and are being withdrawn to a large extent, but good kinds still maintain their firmness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Care of Harness for Farm Horses
The capacity of the horse for work depends much upon his harness. Stiff harness tires and worries him. Oiling the harness will make it flexible and will also make it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Planting Raspberries
Black Cap R[?]spberries should be planted in the spring, as then the plants grow best. They should not be planted deep or they die. The red raspberries and blackberries…
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"BRUNI" writes :--The right cross to produce the most profitable type of freezer, combined with a heavy fleece, is a matter of considerable importance to Australian pastoralists at present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints for Small Wool Growers
PACK the fleeces of your different flocks separately, and always brand each bale with a word or letter indicating what it contains. Brand…
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Two or three months ago the Melbourne Leader figured and described a wheat which has been grown at Mulyala, Riverina, and which the grower alleged was a variety that had been imported from France…
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There is as much difference between the eggs laid by our respective races of poultry, so far as flavor is concerned, as in apples, and I hope that are long consumers will buy…
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The Danish butter makers, are gradually driving all their competitors from the English markets. The rapid development of the batter trade to Denmark is due, in a great…
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Ring the nose of even the 'safe' bull. If your dairy has no pedigree, start [?] at once. The cow with a ruffled temper will yield…
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As the practice of ensilage-making becomes more common it is better understood. A Victorian farmer has discovered that no elaborate appliances for pressure are required ; he simply…
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ADELAIDE wheat, ex warehouse, 24s. 6d., market steady; Victorian, 24s. 6d., steady; New Zealand long-berried, 24s., with a firm market…
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THERE is always a curiosity among sheep fanners to learn the heaviest weight to which a sheep will attain. In his History of the Landed Interest, Mr. R. M. Gamier states :…
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