Select Poetry. Rest for Us and the Cattle
JOURNEY, and journey back, Scarcely a time for a bite, Six long days on the track, And now it is Saturday night…
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Farming & the land, 1887
37 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Home and Farm. a Rail for Kicking Horses
Some horses appear to be born with the kicking propensity largely developed; others acquire the habit, and do not readily part with it. To prevent such horses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Sales
At the wool sales to-day 10,000 bales were catalogued. The market is firm. Coarse crossbreds are ½d. higher than last sales, and scoured 1½d higher than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Accounts
It is, of course, a subject worn thread bare in its discussion, but yet there are many farmers, we venture to say, who never lay pencil to paper to figure up the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home and Farm. Brief Notes
Feed stock of all kinds regularly. Keep the horse stables well ventilated, and prevent glanders. There is one thing that farmers do not…
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Water-cress is credited with enabling workers to enjoy their pipes without any[?] of being poisoned by nicotine. It [?] ears that the water-cress destroys the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairymen Study These Facts
1 Only healthy cows produce good milk. They must never be heated, or in any way misused or unduly. excited. 2 Regularity in the time of milking,…
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A London medical man says : " Be care ful in your dealings with horse radish. It irritates the stomach far more than spice, and an overdose will bring on an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Wool Statistics
Immigration Commissioner Lynch, a leading wool merchant of New York, has compiled the statistics of the wool trade for 1885. The total amount of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home and Farm. a Health Acrostic
The Trinity Church Association of New York city distributes gratuitously among the tenement houses in the lower wards of the city the following hints on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home and Farm. a New American Industry
The wonderful crop of oranges which has been produced in California has led to the manufacture of a new and nonalcoholic wine from that fruit. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Intelligence. Farmers' Trains
In reply to a question in the Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Sutherland said it was not his intention to grant excursion fares on the railways in connection with farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home and Farm. Plant Potatoes
At a meeting recently of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture a speaker said: Years of observation and experiments lead me to the following conclusions: First,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home and Farm. Chicken Cholera Remedies
The following are a few simple remedies for cholera, which is one of the most fatal diseases poultry-men have to contend with:…
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ORANGE MARMALADE.—Take twelve oranges, grate off the outer rind; reserve and spread on a dish what is grated from four of these. Peel them and reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrest of a Sheep Stealer
Crookwell, Tuesday.—A man named Josiah Cramp was arrested in the early part of the year 1867 by Sergeant Cranon a charge of stealing 188 wethers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Home and Farm. Winter Care of Stock
Exposure to [?]ld causes suffering. Suffering is at the exp[?] or the vital forces, and wastes flesh. Flesh is wholly put on and maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American Wheat Market
The Chicago Corn Ring has collap[?] owing to the enormous quantity of wheat received, and the intended auction sale of 16,000,000 bushels during the month of…
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THE following is said to be a sure test for ascertaining whether wall paper contains arsonie; Take at piece of paper and pour upon it strong aqua ammonia over a sancer. If…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rents of Pastoral Holding
THROUGH the courtesy of the Mini[?] for Lands, we have been favoured with copy of a pamphlet just issued by Government Printer, under the above [?]…
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