The Local Crop
ALTHOUGH the sugar year in this district is not considerede the end until the close of March a few words concerning our crop and prospects will not on this occasion be…
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Farming & the land, 1886
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The Wool Traffic
AN examination of the wool traffic on New South"Wales railways for the last ten years show, how, much has been gained by the extension of our railways westward. Something…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The open Column. [This ceturn being open to all,for the ventibutors of grievasess or the expression of opinions on public matters, we do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements made thesels.] Diseases in Crops. To the Editor of the "Northern Star. "
SIR— I beg to bring under your notice the enclosed letter from the Department to my self, relative to the Diseases in Crops, &c., and to request that you will give the gist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The norhtern Star. Wednesday, May 5, 1886. Farming Notes
As could only have been expected under existing circumstances, the amendment moved by Mr. Clarke for the imposition of a doty on Agricultural Produce imported into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Handicapped Farmers
HOWEVER the so-called free traders--or more properly free "looters"-may pretend to laugh at the efforts being made by our heavily handicapped farmers to obtain for themselves,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Star. Wednesday, June 9, 1886. Experimental Farm
THOSE persons who believe in the Agricultural development of this district will be glad to learn that a gentleman is now in our midst (Mr. Campbell, off the Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Scrub Butter. To the Editor of the "Northern Star."
SIR,-Please allow me space in your valuable columns for a few remarks I wish to mske contrary to your Alstonville Correspondent's statements on Butter-making in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American Cattle Business
IN a recent issue of the PALL MALL GAZETTE there appeared an account of an interview with Mr. F. R. Lingham, of Mon-Montreal, prefaced with the remark that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →System on the Farm
IN the workshops and factories everything is done systematically. There is a time for beginning work and a time for work to cease, while each and all have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Clarence River Farm
THE following account of a farm situated on the bank of Carr's Creek, at Grafton, may be read with interest and profit by some of the farmers in this district:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kangaroos v. Sheep
THE gifted editor of the 'Maitland Mercury' essays to show in a recent issue of that journal, that kangaroos are better stock than sheep and gifts the matter out in this way—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"How to Increase Crops In Field and Garden."
THIS was the subject of a lecture recently delivered at tho Technical College Hall, Pitt-street, Mr. Mackay, instructor in Agriculture to the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Sheep Farming
AT the large hall of the Technical College, Pittstreet, on Thursday evening. Mr. Mackay, instructor in agriculture for the Board of Technical Education, lectured on a combined system…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy. A Few Interesting Facts
THERE are a good many cowkeepers who do not believe, and it is too troublesome to examino, that pastures can got poor from simply taking milk and a few calves from off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming Without Stock
STOCK raising and farming are the same in a certain sense. No farmer can keep stock unless he grows grain and grass, and no farm can bo kept to a standard of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Pig in the Dairy
THE pig is almost as much a part of the dairy as the cow is. The cow is at one end (the first), and the pig at the other. They occupy the two extremes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes
THE agricultural reporter of the Australasian, in describing the creamery of Messrs. Jackman and Derrick, Romsey, furnishes some useful particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Richmond Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A PUBLIC meeting was hold at the School of Arts on Tuesday evening last, pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of initiating the formation of a Pastoral and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Fish or Octopus
THE honor of setting at rest all doubts as to the great squid (remarks the Cornhill MAGAZINE) certainly belongs to the Rev. M. Harvey, the learned and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farming
THE gradual introduction of this industry in a practical form is one of the best evidences we have, not only of the inducement of a larger permanent…
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