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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
36 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
However well off for pasturage a farmer may be, the grass ought to be supplemented with a few acres of hay, roots, green-stuff, etc. Cows love a change of food and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In picking and liming the seed wheat to prevent smut, the farmers appear generally to have one plan of making a pickle of ¼lb, bluestone to a bushel of wheat. Some add…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To destroy weeds on gravel walks soak them with carbolic said, about the strength of one of acid to forty parts of water. This plan is very successful, but will need to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL knowledge is gaiued on a farm by experiment. It may be made very profitable or very ruinous. Now, in the spring, is the time to try on any unsatisfactory piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMENCE breaking the pup when not older than six months. Pups from wellbroke parents and ansestors on both sides of the kennel are most likely to prove sensible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If we would interest young men in agriculture wo must make home and the farm pleasant and agreeable. We must make society in the country attractive; must…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EARLY sowing in much studied by old tobacco growers in America; they do not hesitate to serape away the snow in order to prepare an early seed-bed, so that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE colonies will anon be independent of England for haps; it is only a question of time; ovary season the area under this crop ia increased, and the quality improves also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EVERY season many hundred bales of wool are sacrificed, both in this market and in England, simply because pains are not sufficiently taken to assort the different qualities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR some time it was thought (and church to carry out the principle were introduced) that the passage of air into the cream during the process of churning promoted the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE question, "Does Farming Pay?" is almost universally answered by farmers in the negative, though they can rarely, if ever, make a detailed exhibit of their debits and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To every farmer I say: "Be a student." "What, a farmer and a student?" Yes, certainly, both, and the better the student he better the farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Up in the morning at dawn of day, Then hardly time to her Maker to pray, Milking her cows, with a "Co, boss, co," Under her feet no grass can grow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE farms in this district just now present a most charming sight. The extensive areas of wheat turning yellow with the late hot days and bending in the breeze with their heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following sensible remarks, whcih appea in the 'Adelaide Observer,' are equally applicabel to Queensland armers as to these in South Austrlaia:—cannot congrat[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is the atmosphere coming in contact with the batter which causes it to become rancid. Keep the two separate and the butter cannot spoil. To do this economically…
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