Crops at Maitland
It is not easy to imagine, from the present appear of Bolwarra, that we have just passed through a long spell of dry weather. The vegetation looks as vigorous and as green as in Spring, and there seems…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1875
20 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Wool Statistics
Recent statistics of the wool trade of England show how important a position Australia holds with regard to one of the greatest industries of the mother country. Last year, the total import of foriegn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 1
[We have much pleasure in informing our [?]ders, that we have engaged a gentleman of acknowledged ability and experience, to forward us a series of illustrated papers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field. and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 2
Ploughing is justly considered the most important of agricultural operations, as, on the manner in which it is performed, depends the facility of executing all the succeeding ones FIG. 2. PRIZE PLOUGHING. CRESTED FURROW…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 3
There are many types of ploughs in these latter days even an old implement marker is often hard set to choose among them—the useful from the useless. But no writer can…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 3
It is estimated that a man and pair of horses will plough one acre of lea land; of stubble ground 1¼ acres, and cross plough in spring 1½ acres in a day of 10 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 4
Whippletrees are indispensable to the farmer to enable him to attach his horses either to plough or harrow. When the writer was a boy, whippances, as they were then called…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 4
Indian cars, or maize, as it is sometimes [?], is a very important crop, and here de[?]ves my notice. The celebrated English agriculturist, Arthur Young, speaking of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 7
Hay-making.—The Royal Agricultural Society have decided—that, in making hay, the standard is arrived at when, on stacking it, it is found to be in the condition of dried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 8
That nice youth, your printer's devil, Mr. Editor, has made me recommend sowing lucerne seed, and that with a broad-cast sowing machine, in quantities of forty-one bushes to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baby Farming
Rochester, August 23, 1875.—There are two large hospitals in thin city—St. Mary's and Rochester City. Within a stone's throw of each is a place where babies are cared for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby Farming
Rochester, August 23, 1875.—There are two large hospitals in thin city—St. Mary's and Rochester City. Within a stone's throw of each is a place where babies are cared for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 10
Within the last twenty years the whole system of preparing wheat for market has been completely changed by the inventions of our agricultural engineers. Not alone has the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 10
Ransome's Double blast Steam Thrashing Machine, perfect in every detail, made of choice material, and highly finished. This thrashing machine is intended for farms where…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 11
It is not requisite for all crops of grain to put through the rotary screen—that is part d parcel of the letter A class of thrashing achines, and adds to the weight and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. Written expressly for the Newcastle Chronicle. No. 12
So much in the history of the steam engine is new to many, that before quitting the subject, I am induced to refer briefly to it again. Hundreds daily figuring in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. 13
At the request of several of the readers of the Chronicle, I am induced to refer this week to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 14
Before dealing with the systems of irrigation practised either in warm or temperate climates, let us consider the means at our disposal for raising water for this purpose, as where a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brevities for a Farmer's Note Book. DECEMBER
If the dry season is of no other use, it enables hay to be made cheaply, quickly, and well. Indeed, the general crop should come quite up to the Royal Agricultural Society's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm, the Field, and the Garden. No. 19
No season that has visited us for years could so clearly demonstrate to any mind of even small comprehension, that we must, at no distant date, secure a system of irrigation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →