Wheat Growing
An attempt is to be made again to grow wheat in the Maclean district. The area under crop this year will be the largest ever sown in the Riverina…
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Farming & the land, 1898
377 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 19
The Farmer and Grazier. The File on the Farm
THE file is a more important farm tool than many farmers, who during all their lives have never filed the cutting edge of a hoe blade, are aware of. If such men have a practical demonstration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful Small Farming. From the Agricultural Gasette of N.S.W.
Mr. H. W. Collingwood, of Jersey, writes thus: "My plan has been to produce crops that compete least with the large market gardens. With me, such crops are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 39.-- the Peach -- External -- De- Scription-- Blossoms --Fruit-- Place of Origin -- Varieties -- Divisions -- Double - Blossomed -- Raising the Peach -- Budding -- Soil -- Bearing Fruit -- Times Fob Pruning -- Some Useful Hints -- Pests -- Peculiar Flavor -- Difference Between Peach and Almond -- a Horticultural Department -- the China Peach -- Its Special Characteristics
The Peach and Nectarine.-- The Peach when growing naturally is rather under the middle of trees, with spreading branches, of quick growth and not long lived. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Weirdest Farm. Disease-geems Instead of Cabbages
There is at least one regularly. organised microbe-farm in England, and it is situated, not amid the Surrey hills or in the Kentish vales, but it is in the very heart of the…
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This tax, says the "Stock and Station Journal," was imposed to recompense sheepowners whose flocks were destroyed by law, to prevent the spread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. the Dairy Farming Industry. (To the Editor of Walcha Witness.)
(Correspondence on subjects of public interest is invited, but the editor does not hold himself responsible for the opinions expressed. Sir,--Much has been written on the subject of dairy fanning; and a great deal more is likely to be written before the inland districts are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Notes. Improving the Stock
There is one lesson that needs to be continually repeated with all the neceassry variations that time and circustances require, and that is,…
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Although pasture is the main product pf Australia the grasses most [?] for the soil and climate of the districts are but little understood…
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A SYSTEM of preserving butter, fruit, and other perishable produce has been patented by a Mr Pouting and brought under the notice of the Victorian Government. The system is to enclose the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
At the next Colonial wool sales it is anticipated there will be strong demand. An advance in the price of merino is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer and Grazier. Keep Cows Clean
THE only proper way to keep cows is to keep them clean. It is just as necessary to bed cows and keep them clean as it is to feed and care for them in any other way. I milk 40 cows the year…
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The London-colonial wool sales for June opened with brisk competition. The quantity catalogued for the series is 265,000 bales. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Seed Wheat Distribution This Year
The Governmen do not Intend to make any free distribution of need wheat this year…
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REPORTS received from Japan to the effect that woollen goods are rapidly supplanting those of cotton manufacture in that country is another convincing proof of the superiority of the former fabric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer and Grazier. How to Milk
THE following rules for milking are supplied by an expert dairy authority :- 1.Work rapidly ; slowness causes loss of cream. 2.Milk thoroughly, to the last drop, because…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Sales
At the etud sheep sales yesterday 246 lines were sold, which realised £4,300, the highest price being 400 guineas for Mr. H. C. White's prize…
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At the stud sheep sales yesterday 510 guineas was obtained for a ram, a son of Pres[?]nent, from the Bellvue stud. Two other animals from that locality realised 310 and…
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An authority says, ' Use lukewarm water.' Why not hot water; which is so cleansing ? Clothes that can neither be boiled nor scalded need everything else that can possibly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Original Articles No. 41. --The Plum-- Diffusion-- Origin-- Products-- Varieties-- the Washington-- Propagation-- Soil- Pluning and Thinning-- the Cherry-- Use and Ornament-- Cultivated and Wild-- Remarkable Trees-- Transplantation and Inferences Deduced-- Views on the Infancy or Youth of the World
The Plum appears to be still more widely diffused in its original locality than the apricot and is much more prone to run into varieties. It is a tree of fifteen to twenty…
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