Proposal to the Farmers
WE ('Clarence Examiner) have seen a circular which is being distributed among the farmers of the district, and is a proposal by the company to induce the cultivation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1882
13 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
New Wheat-bearing District
THE East India Office is lending its best sanction just now to an enormous scheme for the reclamation of the waste lands of the Punjaub. The waters of the five rivers which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cane Crops at Mackay
THE 'Standard' says,— It will be seen that the crop for the sugar season just drawing to a close has not realised the anticipations of the majority of those who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deep Ploughing [By an Lowa Farmer.]
WHEN on an eastern farm, some twenty years ago, nearly all my neighbours, like myself, fully believed it was dangerous to the crop to run the plough deeper than 4in. or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Return of the Crops for 1881-2
THE Mackay Mercury ' says,— Sugur.—We have to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. D. Conner in building us a copy of the official return of the sugar season…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Combined Tillage and Cattle Farming
QUEENSLAND farmers are not Bufiicientiy appreciative of combined land und cattle funning. They dairy alone or cultivate alone, and both are wasteful the former of good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What a Practical Farmer Says
A SUCCESSFUL Santa Clara farmer lately said to a reporter of the Mercury':—" In many cases the dry season are a blessing, as some farmers would otherwise crop their land to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What a Farmer Should Know
FARMERS as a rule are everywhere far from realising the importance of the work they have undertaken, an the amount of knowledge which should be at their fingerends to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rust Proof Wheat. (To the Editor of the Echo.)
Sir,—In to-night's "Pith and Point" is a short illusion to my importation of alleged rust proof wheat. "If it is really rust proof," says the paragraph, implying that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sugar Crop on the Richimond
By request, we republish the following copy of Mr. Alfred Rose's prophetic letter as to the Big Sorub, 2nd August, 1879, and which appeared in the 'Evening News' and 'Town and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Neglected Grain Crop
AMONG what may be termed "outside crops" (says the 'Melbourne Leader') is one which we think might be cultivated with profit. We allude to rye. It is because our farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Status of Farming
THE merchant, the lawyer, the physician, and the minister must take, pride in his profession if, he would do good work in it. He must not hold it in contempt if he would succeed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Ostrich Farm
WE have before us the rough notes of a trip to Mr. W. Malcolm's ostrich farm near Gawler, South Austral in, and which was referred to a few Weeks ago in those columns. The…
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