Advice to Dairymen
The annual report of an American Agricultural Association, speaks of how milk speedily becomes tainted when brought into contact with matter charged with…
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Farming & the land, 1883
67 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 4
A Prize Farm
At a recent competition in the. Ballarat district, the first prize best managed fain is thus described:—"La Rose. Farm Mount Blowhard,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maffra Cattle Market. January 12
Messrs. English, Peck and Co., report: —Store Cattle.—Market brisker this week. Good conditioned bullocks £5 to £5 10s, others £4 to £5, cows £2 10s. to £3 5s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Economical Farming
The Los Angeles Commercial says: The art of wresting money from the soil is one of those secrets that few find out in its completeness. The majority of people have an idea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Book Farmers
LISTEN to Major Alvord in the Christian Union. He puts it well: "The farmer must apply to himself, and to the son or sons to succeed him, a standard similar to that by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Farmer. a Big Farm. Fifty-six Thousand Acres Under One Management
THE mammoth farm of the North-West is owned and operated by the Qu'Appelle Valley Farming Company. It comprises a tract ten miles square, which after deducting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by correspondents.] Cattle Breeding. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)
SIR,—Will yon kindly insert this letter to correct a statement that appeared in your paper of 24th inst, coupling my name with jersey cattle. If not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advice to Dairymen
THE annual report of an Agricultural Association speaks of how milk speedily becomes tainted when brought into contact with matter charged with odour, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Farmer. The Forcing of Rhubarb
THERE are two general modes of forcing rhubarb at the early season, out of doors and in the latter is by far the easiest and best. It is also the quickest, a great point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Memoranda
UNDER this heading, Mr. T. W. Sheppard thus write in the [?] Sound and [?] advice throughout:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cull the Herd to Make the Dairy Pay
The value of close comparison, good judgement; and selection, in connection with many farm matters, is beginning to be properly appreciated. There was a time when one potato…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Farmer
FLOWER IN FARM HOUSES.— It is simply a low, vulgar taste or relic of barbarism that excludes the flower garden from too many country homes, and we are further compelled to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. a Great American Farm. Reaping and Sowing From 40,000 ACRES
The largest farm in the world is Mr. Hiram Sibley's 10,000 acra Burr Oaks farm. It is situated in eastern Illinois, about sixteen miles cast of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mafrra Cattle Market. Friday, Feb. 16
Messrs. English, Peck and Co. report:—Store Cattle.—In consequence of the dry weather the market was dull; good bullocks £5 to £5 10s.; cows, £2 5s to£3 12s. Fat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bega Agricultural and Pastoral Society
THE Society's eleventh show was, as we predicted last issue, a brilliant success. The swarm of visitors from Sydney, Bombala, Moruya, Braidwood and the Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Humour. an All Wool Talk of Life
NEVER had the bright blossoms of hope and things of that kind been showered around a betrothal of more promise, than that of Keno Maud, the bride of the Owl Creek diggings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Crop of Great Britaain and Ireland
THE London Times, in a review of the wheat crop of the United Kingdom for 1882, says that the average yield per acre during a period of seventeen years—1866 to 1882—has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some Observations on the Progress of Dairy Cattle Breeding on the South Coast
DURING the past half-dozen years the attention of farmers of the South Coast, chiefly in the Kiama and Ulladulla districts, has been turned more closely than in years before to the milk and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rot in Sheep; or the Life-history of the Liver-fluke
AN article of considerable interest to sheep fanners, under the above title, lately appeared in Nature from the pen of Mr. A. P. Thomas, of the University Museum, Oxford. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Pastoral and Agricultural Society’s Show
THE eight annual Show of the Braidwood Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday last. The whole affair from beginning to end was crowned with success…
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