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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

107 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 6

Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1882 · page 2

It stands declared by Act of Parliament in England that milk cannot be made by artificial means; and there is much comfort to humanity in the assurance. It is not for…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Merino, the Farmer's Sheep

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1882 · page 2

RENEWING the subject dealt with in a previous paper we are desirous of seeing how she morino compares as a c[?]-yielding animal with the co[?] wools cross-bred…

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Experimental Farming

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1882 · page 2

THE experimental farmer we are informed is disappearing from the ranks of those who till the [?] and dev[?] the grand cattle horses and sheep of the mother country…

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Dorset Butter

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

PROFESSOR Sheldon thus describes the method of making choice Dorset butter :— In Dorset dairies the milk stands for 24 or 36 hours, according to the season of the…

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Agriculture. Station Farm and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

IT stands declared by Act of Parliament in England that milk cannot be made by artificial means; and there is much comfort to humanity in the assurance. It is not for…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Milk-making and Egg-making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 2

IT stands declared by Act of Parliament in England that milk cannot be made by artificial means; and there is much comfort to humanity in the assurance. It is not for…

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Butter Company

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 25 January 1882 · page 4

WE re-publish a circular addressed to the present shareholders in the South Coast and West Camden Co-operative Company. Messrs. Kennedy and Porter are now in…

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For the Farmer. Co-operative Butter Company

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1882 · page 4

MR. G. A. PORTER, J.P., the energetic director of this Company in the northern and of the district, kindly informs us that the accounts of the concern during the first six months of its…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Water in Waterless Country

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1882 · page 2

WE published recently the opinions and experiences of a valued contributor who had proved by actual results that, under certain circumstances, pigs gained…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Chemistry in Farming Economy

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1882 · page 2

WHILE a firm believer in the value of chemical knowledge as an aid to agricultural practice, I do not subscribe blindly to all the chemistry books teach. For, and…

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For the Farmer. The Co-operative Butter Company

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 February 1882 · page 4

OUR readers avo no doubt familiar with the Daily Farmers' Company, whose price list appears in our commercial column from time to time. Those of them who remember the…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm. and Garden Systematic Wheat-farming

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 February 1882 · page 2

WITH the common sense, which is characteristic of quite a good many of the public movements in South Australia, that colony is taking a leading part in…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden" Dams for Water Storage

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1882 · page 2

OF the many important subjects continuously cropping up in connection with pasteral and farming affairs in the colonies, there are few, if any, more worthy of all the…

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The Aroma of Cheese and Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1882 · page 4

The following extracts are from an article which appears in the annual report of the American Dairymen's Association, from the pen of Professor Willard:—Professor Segelcke says…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Shorthorn As a Milker

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1882 · page 2

IN a preceding paper we dealt somewhat fully upon the relative merits of the Ayrshire and shorthorn breeds as milkers. For colonial purposes, and under the…

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For the Farther. The Best Cown for the Dairy

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1882 · page 4

A cow may yield a great bulk of milk which is little better than sky blue; whilst another will give a small pailful, which is nearly all cream. There will bo no question which is…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. by Jumbuctoo. Irrigation for Australia

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1882 · page 2

A MOVEMENT, with truly national features, has been commenced in New South Wales, and the necessities of the case are of such character as make it certain the movement…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. "Any Money for a 1 Coaching Horses."

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1882 · page 2

IT is nothing short of an anomaly that while horses, young, apparently sound, and each with all its limbs, can be purchased for £1 a leg, and for less at times, really…

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For the Farmer. Pig management

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1882 · page 4

SUCCESS in raising pigs profitably depends upon feeding liberally till the pigs we three or four mouths old. Let thorn have the run of a grass or clover pasture, and after the…

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Miscellaneous. Cumberland Sheep Dogs

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1882 · page 2

An occasional accomplishment of Cumberland sheep dogs is that of finding sheep buried in the snow. John Scott has possessed dogs, which by their peculiar…

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