Farm and Garden
A stock-raiser reports that he destroys lice on cattle by boiling potatoes until they are thoroughly cooked, then removing the potatoes, allowing the water to boil down to…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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Farm and Garden. Notes
In England a very fine flavor is imparted to the flesh of fattering turkeys by feeding them, in confinement, with cooked food in which chopped sweet herbs, like parsely, have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. The Oil Test For Milk
It has been but a short time since the oil test of the value of milk was adopted as the only correct method of determining the amount of butter in milk, and though experts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Important to Sheep and Large Stockowners
A NOTICE appeared in the last number of the Gazette requesting the owners of sheep and large stock, (horses and cattle) who are eligible to vote for the election…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Suggestions for Cheese-Makers
The question of putting our State creamcry cheese in more convenient packages is arousing the attention of some of the commission men in this city. The tastes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Preparation of 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 the lungs as the animal breathes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. What Can be Done
We have a few figures in our possession from Highlands, just acros the Santa Ana river from here, that will serve as pointers as to what has been done and what can be done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Section B.—cattle. Class I.—shorthorms
Best Bull, 3 years and over. £1. 1—Rutledge & Son N. Powell Francis Devlin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Section C.—sheep. Class I.—merinos
Best Ram. £1. 1-Rutledge and Son. Best Ewe. £1.1—Rutledge and Son…
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Best Collection Cereals.£1. 1—Robt. Hatch Wm. Wyatt Best 3 bushels wheat. 10s.1—J. E. Bassingthwaighte…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Fine points of an Incubator
An incubater may be described as a limied chamber, the temperature of whose atmosphere its humidity or moisture, its freedom from noxious gases, are under the cotrol of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Destructive Bash Fires. a Settler Burnt Out. — Miles of Fencing Destroyed.—sheep and Cattle Roasted Alive. — Beating Back the Flames.—a Hopeless Task
THURSDAY last was a day which will be long remembered in the district. As briefly intimated last issue bush fires of terrible magnitude were raging in every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bungendore News. Destructive Bush Fires. a Settler Burnt Out.—miles of Fencing Destroyed.—sheep and Cattle Roasted Alive.—beating Back the Flames.—a Hopeless Task
THURSDAY last was a day which will be long remembered in the district. As briefly intimated last issue bush fires of terrible magnitude were raging in every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes
Mortgage and misery begin with the same letter. A lead pencil is one of the best of farm implements for winter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Odds and Ends. a Thought for the Farmers
Our farmers have not, so far, performed their share of the work, or borne their proper proportion of the expenses, although the press has constantly advertised the actual merit and…
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THE following additional particulars have been supplied to our representative in connection with the late fire at Mr. George Tompsitt’s Woodside Farm, Micalago :—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Vicious Horned Stock
Almost every week we read of some person or animal being gored by a vicious bull or cow. I have been caring for bulls ever since I was big enough, which is over thirty years…
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