An Immense Farm
ACOORDING to a Californian journal, "Dr. Glenn, named by the party of the New Constitution as their candidate for the post of Governor of California, is a farmer on a very…
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Farming & the land, 1880
17 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
Sweet Corn as Dairy Feed
THE use of sweet corn as summer food for dairy cows is now being agitated afresh in Eastern journals. The 'American Dairyman' contains an article reviewing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. the Proper Care and Feed to Make Combing Wool
NEXT to breeding, feeding is the most important consideration. Combing wool with a length of staple and degree of lustre which will command the highest price, can only be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Long-horn Cattle
LONG before the now famous Short-horns had anything more than a oironmsoribed local reputation, the Long-home were highly prized through most of the midland countios…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Organizations in Victoria
COMBINATIONS of farmers for the purpose of accomplishing the removal of class disabilities are of comparatively modern date. Leagues of other classes, on the' contrary,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crops on the Downs
THE Brisbane correspondent of the 'S. M. Herald' says,—"The partial spoliation of the Darling Downs wheat crops by rust does not seem to have disheartened the farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. Tillering of the Wheat Plant. Professor Levi Stockbridge. (In Rural New Yorker.)
THE wheat plant, like some others of its class, has the habit of developing underground stems from the base or its main upright stem. There are full of nodes or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Lismore, May 1, 1880. Experimental Farming, Etc
IT has often struck us as passing strange that with thousands in cash lying idle to the credit of the Government in the Banks, with a fine Botanic Garden, and with all the stir about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmers' Club
IN accordance with the opinions expressed in a late issue of this journal, and the more especially as it is somewhat difficult to get people together in public meeting in a seat…
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IT is very difficult to make a new idea popular, no one ever succeeded in a first attempt, for it is not until people take in the substance, of what in good, and chew the cud…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Scientific Farming Practical
MR. BUCKMASTER, before a well-attended meeting of farmers, held at Tadley, in England, the other day, to consider a scheme for teaching the science of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. a Good Farm Makes Good Stock
SOMEONE has said " the character of the stock on a farm depends essentially upon the cultivation and condition of the soil." Grass is not only the natural food, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scientific Farming Practical
MR. BUCKMASTER, before a well-attended meeting of farmets, held at Tadley, in England, the other day, to consider a scheme for teaching the science of farming,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Winter Butter Making. the Dairy
IF the first requisite for good butter is the cow, the second is the dairy room or house, for it is neeless to pro[?]re good milk, if it is spoiled in the keeping. A dairy room should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Bee Farm
Near the village of Beeton, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably one of the most extensive and successful things of the kind in the world. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nature. Ants and Their Milch Cattle
THE instiucts of the ant are, indisputably, more extraordinary than those of any other in the whole range of animated nature. The ancients magnified them into fabulous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Novelties in Dairying
WONDERS will never cease. Much as has been achieved in the domain of improvement and discovery in methods and processes whereby the products of the dairy have been…
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