How the Farmer Shaves Himself
TOWN folk have the same idea of the farmer of New South Wales as the cockney has of the Yorkshire man, Hodge, as shown by the following…
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Farming & the land, 1888
81 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 5
American Cattle Prospects
AMERICAN cattle ranging has been said to be "played out." The business has certainly been seriously affected altering circumstances. Extending settlement of small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Farming. Dairy Breeds at the Royal Agricultural College
Is the herd of dairy cows at the Royal Agricultural Colldge are some capital specimens of all the best English dairy breeds, and a study is consequently athorded of each,…
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A FARMER named Burnett, writing to an American paper says:—"I would not advise farmers who own poor milking cows and who are short of money to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming as a Business
FARMING as a business, says Professor Gulley, in Home and Farm, is not what it has been in the past. It requires much more intelligence and skill to farm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Migration of Scotch Farmers to England
ACCORDING to the North British AGRICULTURIST, the migration of Scotch formers to England has become very marked. During the last half-dozen years there has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food for Dairy Cows
CUTTING the fodder has the effect of reducing the muscular work of the cow. Every movement of the cow's muscles, every motion of he lungs as the animal breaths, consumes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detecting Pleuro in Cattle
THE Chief Inspector of Stock gives the following rules for the detection of pleuro in cattle:—1. Attention is first directed to an animal suffering from pleuro by (its standing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cruel Treatment of Cattle
A SHOCKING instance of the torture and suffering which cattle undergo whilst penned in railway trucks en route for Melbourne has been brought under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The One-horse Farmer
THE one-horse farmer has a life-long ambition to gain a reputation for wearing a dirty shirt. He will alarm the neighbourhood by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →C. R. and N. C Farmers Association
THE ninth half-yearly meeting of the Clarence and North Coast Farmers' Association was held in the Theatre Royal Grafton, last week. Mr. G…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How I Keep my Dairy Cool
"I MUST first give you to understand" (writes a New Zealand farmer), "that my dairy is not a grand stone structure, with flagged floor: neither is it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bounties on the Exportation of Live Cattle
WE have been furnished by Messrs. J. Barre Johnston and Co. with the following translation of the law passed by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saving Farm and Garden Seeds
CORN for seed should bo selected when husking. When a good-sized, well-ripened and well-developed ear is found, pull the husk buck, but not altogether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farming
WRITING upon a lecture at Wollongong a short time since upon the above matter, the "Mercury" says— Mr. Mackay,who was received with applause, then delivered his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Reserve Crops
THE Government have decided to give more encouragement to the people in the country districts to join the reserve corps, and it is their intention to organise a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cruelty at Cattle Shows
AMONG the many viscous practices which we see creeping into leading exhibitions may be mentioned the growing habit of permitting cows to remain unmilked from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destroying Vermin on Cattle
ON the destruction of vermin on cattle we find the following in the PRAIRIE FARMER:—There are two effective means of exterminating vermin—carbolic acid and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer and Grazier
THE Leghorn is a full-breasted fowl, through small in size, and when very young it grows as rapidly as do the chicks of larger breeds until it weighs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jottings from Victoria. (From Our Correspondent.) the Struggles of the Wheat Farnner
IN my last, I stated some facts showing that wheat-growing was, at present, anything but a profitable business, for a largo number of the farmers. From the latest official returns,…
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