Dont's for Dairymen
DON'T keep cream after it is ripe, but churn at once. Don't send it to market wrapped in parts of cast-off clothing…
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Farming & the land, 1899
539 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 27
Farm Notes. K1eep Your Fowls Clean
At the present time of the year, without the very strictest cleanliness, fowls, in fact all classes of poultrv will become mere or leas infested with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Quebec Farmers
Seventeen hundred Quebec farmers have protested against the excessive taxation in Canada. They demand a more liberal policy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. Australian Sheep for South America. to the Editobs of the Abmidale Express
GENTLEMEN,—Now that the wool season is drawing to a close, with prices so satisfactory generally, and to many of the New England wool growers in particular, all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Dairying Calculation
THE best cow is not necessarily the one which gives the most milk or makes the most butter from every pound of food that she eats. A cow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gragin Wool
THE following letter has been forwarded to us for publication by Mr. G. H. Gordon, of Gragin, having reference to the wool clip of that famous station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles No. 67. The Hop (continued)--Gathering the Hops--Drying--Bagging--Different kinds of Begging--S[?]ipping and Stacking--Crops--Expanse of forming a plantation--Periodic Failure--Hop, Parasites--Hops in Beer--As a Medicine--The Hop Pillow--Used as a dye and manufactured into cloth
The mode of planting is generally in rows six feet apart and the same distance in the row. Five, six, or seven plants are generally planed together in a circular form and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep's Head
Required: A sheep's head, three carrots, three turnips, three parsnips, five onions, parsley, pepper and salt. Method.--Soak the head in warm water to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →False Appetite in Cattle
IT frequently occurs that cows will chew bones, leather, &c., which is an indication that their food does not contain the elements required by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Antwerp Wool Sales. London
AT the opening of the Antwep wool sales a general advance was shown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales London
THE arrivals of wool to date for the next series of wool sales number 242,582 bales. Of this quantity 73,000 bales have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Money in Poultry-farming
THAT there is a vast amount of money in poultry-farming cannot be denied, but, unfortunately judging by the remarks of a number of leading commission agents, our poultry farmers do not pay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles 68. Plants used for Clothing, Cordage, &c. --Preliminary remarks--Lint, or Flax-- General Description--Effect on ground--As an ornament--Countries of Supply-- Species of the Flax Plant--The Perennial --On what quality depends Preparation of soil--Flax for seed--Protection against wind
The preceding articles related more particularly to those vegetable substances used for the food of man, we now proceed to describe those which are employed for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revolution in the Cattle Trade. Very Like a Whale
It is not often (says the Stock end Station Journal') that we bare space to reprint articles from other papers, but we need not apologise for that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Notes. CROPPING 640 ACRES
Farmers who have entered recently on the land should be careful not to exhaust the fertility of their farms by excessive cropping. It has been too…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Preservatives
THE question whether butter and meat preservatives—of which there are a great number of brands in the market —are injurious or otherwise is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Produce Reports
The Sydney Wool Sel[?]ing Brokers' Association report as follows for week ending January 14th, 1899:—Wool.—At the sales which were re[?]umed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' and settlers' Association
A meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held at the Secretary's office on Saturday last, Mr. H Wyndh[?]m in the chair. Present: Messrs J. J. R. Gilson, J. Fra[?]er…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming Notes. Fattening Pork
There is quite a difference of opinion regarding the best mode of fattening hogs, and different methods have been tried, There are those who advocate feeding grain whole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Settlers' Association
A meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held at Mr. Bloore's office on Saturday last, Mr. H. Wyndham in the chair. Present: Messrs. J.J.R. Gibson, J…
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