What an o[?] Farmer Says
THIS is the advices of an old a[?] who has tilled the soil for 10 years I am an old man, upwards of three score years, during two score of which has been…
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Farming & the land, 1881
87 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 5
Agriculture. a New Zealand Farm
AMONG the best known farms in the colony (remarks the N. Z. Patoral News) is Green-field, the estate of james Smith Esq., on the Clutha river, Otago. The estate is 24,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extensive Poultry Farm
IN a late number of the Live Stock Journal appears an account transcribed from the Toronto Globe of the achievements of the so-called chicken king, Mr. W. C. Baker, of New Jersey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. Good Cattle
Good cattle are the best investment a farmer can put his money into. I never knew it man satisfied with himself or his trade, who bought poor stock at any price…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer Ben's Theory
"I TELL ye it's nonsense," said farmer Ben, "This farmin' by books and rules, And sendin' the boys to learn that stuff At the agricultural schools…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Crop of France
RUSSIA, being the chief wheat exporting country of Europe, is usually considered the greatest wheat grower. Yet the wheat crop of France is much larger, her annual crop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Origin of the Merino Sheep
As the ancient Greeks had no cotton er sub, and very little lines, and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took peculiar cars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World's Wool Clip
THE wool clip of the world has increased five times since 1830, when it was about 320,000,000 pounds in weight. In 1878—the latest year for which there are complete…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Big Farms on the Pacific Coast
THE "Mammoth Farm," of the Blacklock Wheat Growing Company of Washington Territory, comprises 60,000 acres of wheat land, of which 25,000 acres are fenced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. Daisting in Canada
AT a sitting of the Agricultural Commission in Canade held at L[?] a Mr Reuben State man gave evidence in reference to dairy alters in that country:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AGRICULTURE. The Agricultural Commission. a Sitting Held in the County of Lanark. Evidences in Reference to Dairy Farming —The Stock-raising Interest—success in Bee Keeping
A SITTING of the Ontario Agricultural Commission was opened at Perth on Tuesday the 12th inst. Present Messrs. Edward Byrne (Chairman) and A. H. Dymond. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy. the Treatment of Farm and Dairy Produce
AT the present time, when the exportation of farm and dairy produce as a means of profitably disposing of our surplus is assuming a distinct form in the colonies, anything tending to bring…
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LET sailors sing the windy deep, Let soldiers praise their armour; But in my heart this toast I'll keep, The independent farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Independent Farmer
LET sailors sing the windy deep, Let soldiers praise their armour; But in my heart this toast I'll keep, The independent farmer…
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The pipe of the squail in the stubble- field The scent of the new-mown hay ; And all day long the show and the song Of the reapers so far away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISCELLANEOUS. The Co-operative Butter Starlet Scheme
As Mr. D. L. Dymock's speech at the meeting of Directors of the Co-operative Butter Market movement, hold at Kiama on Friday, may be said to be a manifesto of the present position of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy In Agriculture Creed
1. Do not cultivate poor landIt is a feeble mother which can give no sustenance 2. It your land is poor.yon must limit the arca. of cultivation lo your ability to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming. Why Farmers Are Becoming Rich. In the Express
IN my last I gave a series of approximate figures, in order to dearly show the expenditure and returns of the farmer of a large area ; and on what may be called an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Co-Operntive Dairy-Farming in the Jura Mountains
THE Swiss district termed the Jura is, as our readers know, mountainous, the climate rigorous, and the soil very far from being as productive as it is in other and more favoured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Protection to Farmers in Victoria. to the Editor of the Telegraph
SIR,—I send you the following slip from the S. M. Herald, of the 21st instant. I think it deserving of a place in your columns, and particularly direct it to the attention of the Nowra…
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