Parsnips As Horse and Cattle Feed
WE clip the following short paragraph from a late number of the Live Stock Journal:—to Parsnips as Food for Horses.—It appears that parsnips are now proposed as an…
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Farming & the land, 1878
20 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Farm Talk for the Month
LAST month we said, when discussing the favourable effects of the fine weather of March following upon the fine rainfall of the early part of February, both in respect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Farms
IN THINK that with good management small, farms, even on the ordinary poor soil, such as we find near Sydney, towards the west and south, would be far more profitable than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Next Season's Fruit Crops
To a close observer who walks his garden or orchard, it will become apparent that there has not been for many years past so thick and abundant a show of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shiftlessness on the Farm
TUMBLE-DOWN fences or fences clumsily propped up and patched here and there with bits of broken boards and rails; gates hanging by one hinge, or leaning forlornly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Make Farming Profitable
I WILL lay down a few rules for successful farming as follows:— 1. Have order and system in all you do, having in your mind in advance what crops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show of Sheep, Stallions, and Bulls
A SPECIAL meeting of the committee of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on: Monday afternoon. The members present were Messrs. Rees Jones, H. Hall, J. K. Hume, R. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Cattle and Sheep Yards
THE new cattle and sheep yards at the Goulburn railway-station are now completed, and on inspection by persons practically acquainted with the trucking of stock, will be found to be all that can be desired…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Value of Sheep for Enriching Land
SOME fifty years age Anderson said that one thousand sheep folded on an acre of ground for one day would manure it sufficiently to feed one thousand and one sheep; so that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act, 1878. Department of Lands, Stock Branch, Sydney, 23rd July, 1878
THE following additional regulations made by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council in accordance with the provisions of the…
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THREE seems to be considerable prejudice among practical farmers against what some are pleased to term book-farmers. If by the term "book-farmer" it is designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act, 1878. Department of Lands, Stock Branch, Sydney, 23rd July, 1878
THE following additional ragulations, made by his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the excutive council, in accordance with the provisions, of the abovenamed act, are published for general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Properties
ON several occasions in these columns we have drawn the attention of those immediately concerned to the advisability of preparing for the change which must eventually…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of Fat Cattle
On Thursday last Mr E. P. Lough disposed of a small lot of fat cattle, principally cows, at a very satisfactory figure, averaging about L3 18s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Best Dairy Cattle
A CORRESPONDENT who maintains that the best results in dairying, so far as regards breeds of cattle, are obtained where no attention is paid to pure-bred stock, but on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fine Pastoral Country
According to the S. M. Herald a meeting was recently held in some place on the Darling at which, says our contemporary, it was stated that it takes from eight to ten…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show of Sheep, Entire Horses, and Bulls at Yass
THE third sheep-show that has been held in Yass took place on Thursday under the auspices of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, and not withstanding the fact that drenching rain continued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association
THE Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association show was opened on Wednesday. The weather was fine, and the attendance good, about eight hundred being present. The display of draught horses was very…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer's Boys
A FARMER'S Son, in an intelligent letter to the Rural World, gives a frank statement of his views as to the reason why the young folks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Returns for this Year
On Monday last we made it a point to inquire as to the likely result of this year's clip; the reply received was, that a heavy fleece is expected, and that, too, of a very…
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