Guernsey Cattle
THERE has been a feeling widely prevailing that milk and beef were antagenistic qualities—that a good milch cow would necessarily make poor beef. Facts do not sustain…
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Farming & the land, 1882
107 stories in South Coast's papers · page 6 of 6
For the Farmer. Charcoal and Lime
THESE two articles play a very important part in the management of fowls whether bred in a fancier's yard or on a farm. Charcoal should be liberally fed for no one thing is more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wonderful Wheat
MAJOR HALLETT recently announced that a single seed of his improved wheat had yielded in one season more than eight thousand grains, from a stool giving one hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magnesia for Wheat
The author ranks magnesia along with nitrogen, phosphoric acid, lime and potash. The proportion of nitrogen and of phosphoric acid increases in wheat from the time of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food of Farm Stock
WHEATEN bran, being rich in flesh-forming substances, is well suited for feeding young stock; but it is liable to pass in great part through their stomachs without undergoing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Root Crops
A well-read and experienced farmer knows that it is a serious error to force by injudioious manuring, or thinning out mangels and other roots in the way that is sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Farmer. British Agriculture
THE agricultural returns of Great Britain with abstract returns for the United Kingdom for the year 1882 are now published They are dated from the Board of Trade…
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