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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
298 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 15
All land that has no sand or gravel snbsoil should be under drained. The first thing in drainage is a good outlet, whether open ditch or tile, large enough…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE show of dairy cattle was one of the strongest features of the Show, the principal breeders of this class of cattle being nearly all ropresonted, as the prize list would testify. The yards were fully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is the grader's report in connection with the above for the week ending 26th February, 1894 :—Large consignments of butter came forward…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE one-horse farmer is sneered at, laughed at, and commiserated, and yet we have seen one-horse farmers with 40 or less acres of land who could lend…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Shoalhaven Telegraph says :—The maize, crop in the district this year gives promise of a most prolific yield, many of the corn fields reminding one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOR the special prize offered by Messrs. Couch and Boyle for the greatest, quantity of butter fat contained in milk, competed for by dairy cows in the Kiams, Shoalhaved, and surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE is a loss of quality of milk from unkindness. When a cow shrinks in her milk at one milking, she usually makes it up the next. That is the general rule. But where that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TELEGRAM from Kempsey dated Wednesday says: The heaviest rain ever recorded here fell on Monday night, and the river rose and filled all the lowlying land round the town. The water is now in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following circulars are being sent to farmers' unions, and in many instances to individual farmers throughout the colony. They have reference to the Conference to be held at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STATISTICIAN DODGE'S review of the surplus products of American agriculture, of the capacity and limitations of foreign markets for their reception, and of the capacity and possibility of the home…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is rather a dreary, windy swept country about Grasmere factory, said the Sydney Mail's Victorian dairy special reporter. The trees have vanished long…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contribution having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments [?] will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is natural for all acquatic birds to go on the water. Nature provides them with webbed feet and adapts them for seeking food on ponds, rivers and lakes. Some allowance, however…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RULES adopted at conference of delegates of the Farmers' Electoral Union held at Ballina on 26th January, 1394:— 1. The Union shall be designated "The Farmers' Electoral Union of Ballina."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE farmer who intends entering the poultry business should before he starts have his mind made up as to what he is going to produce. In some places eggs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE is a beef type of cow and a dairy type, and one differs from the other about as much as the trotting horse differs from the draft horse. As it does not follow that every horse not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The boy on the farm will soon be the farmer. It is well that his earlier impressions of the calling to which he belongs will be such as to make him believe there is no place to live on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CONFERENCE of the Farmers' and Settlors' Association of New South Wales was held at Junee on 27th ult. Mr. G. F. Plunkett (president) took the chair, and representatives of…
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