The Farm. Forty Years' Experiments with Fertilizers
IN summing up the results of forty years' experiments in continuous wheat growing at Rothamsted, England, Sir John Dawes and Dr. Gilbert deduce the…
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Farming & the land, 1894
289 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 15
Gathering Butter
Oftentimes both the farmer's wife and professional dairymen experience considerable trouble in gathering the butter into a solid mass, even after it appears in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The London Wool Sales. a Firm Market. London, July 13
AT the Colonial wool auctions to-day the tone of the market was again firm, but there is no appreciable change to report in prices…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Garden. Cultivation and Value of Clover
At the recent Spring Valley Farmers' Institute an address on clover was given by G. D. Brill which, as reported for the Country Gentleman, is as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Rates
According to the Railway Commissioners all wheat is carried over the lines of the colony at a loss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales
The London wool sales have closed, and compared with last series, medium is half penny per lb higher, superior and inferior from par to farthing higher good crossbreds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spontaneous Combustion of Wool
FOR a long time the question as to whether wool is liable to spontaneous combustion or not has agitated the minds of those interested in the carrying trade between the colonies and Great…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Australian System of Testing for Butter
WE have had opportunity for seeing in operation during the month a system for testing milk for butter, which, for simplicity, speed with which the butter fat is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Landlords and Farmers
THE very useful series of reports being published by the Commission on Agriculture will be a permanent record of the folly of the English public in allowing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Lessening the Cost
With all products of the farm one of the best ways of increasing the profits is by lessening the coat of production, keeping to view the fact that this should never be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales
THE Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Limited, has just received the following cablegram from its London agents:—"Wool sales closed firmly; compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Land Tax Nostrum. a Farmer's Profits
DR. ROSS, the member for Molong, writes: -- " The following stubborn facts written by an honest toiling, industrious, practical farmer of 20 years' standing in the district, viz., Henry Borrodell will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. the Proposed Butter Factory. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN,—I would like, through the medium of your columns, to point out some of the advantages to be gained by the erection of the proposed butter factory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden
Try a quarter of an acre, or more, of mangels or sugar beets, for the cows. They are also an excellent green food for poultry, and cheap, too…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Judge Wool
THE finest and softest wool is always on the shoulders of the sheep. An expert on judging sheep always looks at the wool on the shoulders first. A writer of experience…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bloating in Sheep on Pasture
Is generally caused by the eating of rank and succulent herbage which by the heat moisture of the stomach, undergoes rapid fermentation and decomposition. The fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane. a Wool Shed Burned
Murweh woolshed, at Charleville, was destroyed by fire yesternight. It is supposed to have been caused by disaffected shearers…
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Professor Lawson Tait says there are certain orchids that secure the fertilization of their stigmas by making bees drunk. In no other way could they get these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Trade
THE reckoning of the wool harvest of Australasia affords the most striking statistical feature that can be presented to the colonist, for the produce of our flocks furnishes about…
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