New Zealand Wheat Crop
The New Zealand Mail of August 5 contains the estimate of that colony's wheat crop for 1895, and remarks inter alia 'that the area of production…
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Farming & the land, 1896
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Sheep in the World
The number of sheep in the world is estimated at 555,000,000, Of this number more than one-third, nearly one-half, are Merinos. Though a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
At the Sydney wool rates on Wednesday, at the Wool Exchange, the quantity catalogued totalled 690 bales, the sales amounted to 2572…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Manchester as a Butter Market
Our neighbours of Victoria are acting wisely in cultivating Manchester as an outlet far their butter. It is said that the Wholesale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COMMERCIAL. London Wool Sales. LETTER No. 38. a Softened Finish. Bradford, July 24, 1890
In bringing this series of sales to a close, colonial growers and dealers will be better satisfied to hear from an authoritative source what is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Important to Poultry Farmers
So much is claimed for fresh-cut bone that the earnest desire of practical poultrymen to know the truth of the matter has led to a careful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dignity of Farmers
Farmers as a rule may underestimate their importance. Too many of them feel that their calling is a menial one, and above all too many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cultivating the Maize Crop
THE Americans are the most skilful maizegrowers is the world, and in cultivating this crop they use an implement called a "ister." The listening plough consists of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Carrot Crop
MY best crops in field culture have been on clover sod ploughed in the fall; but I don't always have that. My plot last season was a mixed Timothy and Blue-grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Butter
There are some points in a report from London on Colonial butter which are emphasised, and rightly so we think. After comparing prices obtained in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep-Stealing at Walcha. a Man Arrested. Committed for Trial. (By Telegraph.—From our Correspondent.) WLACHA, Tuesday night
Mr. S. T. C. Murphy, storekeeper of Walcha, missed a quantity of horse feed which he had placed in a marked beg recently, and informed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden an English Beekeeper
When one hears from different parts of the country, as I have done of late from many readers, of the good year it is for bees, and the great supply of honey that is being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Crops in South Australia
Considerable anxiety is being felt as to the fate of the wheat crops. August has been unusually dry, and one or two days last week were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming in U.S.A.
The British Consul-General in San Franciso reports that "the growing of wheat is a thing of the past," that "wages of agricultural labourers have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm. the Treatment of Bet Cows
IT is the usual practice when a cow is dryshe is placed in a poor and generally overstocked paddock, where she is expected to recruit her bones and her strength for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yield from Seed Wheat at Wagga
Mr. W. T. Dick, M.P., recently wrote to Mr. Voider, manager of the Murrumbidgee experimental farm, near Wagga, with reference to certain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Poultry Diet
I have most excellent results, as to condition of poultry and prolific laying by the following diet, which is in the main laid down by the best poultrymen in the world : --…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Model Farm for Glen Innes
SIR, -- I see by your issue of Friday, 4th inst., that the subject of a model farm for Glen Innes was brought forward at the P. and A. meeting of the previous day, and feel pleased that such was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ceylon Cattle
One of the greatert curiosities among the domesticated animals of Ceylon is a breed of cattle known to the zoologist as the sacred rnnning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Butter Market
The export of Australian bhtter to England declined during the past season as compared with that preceding. During the 1894-5 season,…
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