The Braidwood Pastoral and Agricultural Society
THE following extract from the Dispatch, March 31, illustrates the progress made by the Braidwood P.& A. Society:— The eight annual Show of the Braidwood…
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Farming & the land, 1883
67 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 4
The Farmer's Wife
There are several leading departments which, by common consent, are relegated to the sphere of the wife, says a writer in the Cultivator. Embraced in her special…
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A VERY interesting article from the pen of President Welch (Iowa Agricultural College) appears in the columns of the N. Y. Tribune. He is travelling in Germany and writes of…
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AN English statesman at the pinnacle of power and popularity was once spoken of as having arrived at the most dangerous part of his career. To come nearer home,…
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AT a meeting of the British Dairy Formers' Association Dr. Voilcker, F.R.S., said that he had found that food given to a cow while in milk would be converted into milk within six…
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WE have before us the manuscript pedigrees of the cattle purchased for Messrs. Ritchie, Lane and Allan at the Lansdown sale. These pedigrees are signed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Dairy Husbandry. Cutting the Curds. X. A. WILLARD
A WESTERN correspondent inquires concerning the breaking of curds in cheese-making. He asks which is the hotter way—to out the curds firm in the first instance, or to cut…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming Notes. a Dairy Cow
A cow never reaches perfection in her line until she has arrived at maturity; and she must reach this period of her life with all her faculties unimpaired if we expect her to be as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Professor Sheldon on Dairy Farming
AT a recent meeting of the Newcastle Farmers' Club, in England, Professor Sheldon, of the Downton College of Agriculture, gave a lecture upon Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Honest Farmer
AN honest farmer, who reckoned among his possessions a steer which had been stunted in its growth, was accustomed to vent his spite upon the hapless animal by beating it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying at Kiama
IN an article on the above subject the Kiama independent of Friday last says :— A project is on foot to establish, at some convenient centre in our district, a butter and cheese factory on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. Green Crop Manuring and Rotation of Crops
THE practice of growing crops for the express purpose of being ploughed into the land as manure has been in use from an carly period. The Italian farmer of the present day, in…
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MR. John Lindsay, J. P., of Illawarra district, bids fair to become the founder and possessor of one of the beet—perhaps the very, best—herd of Ayrshire cattle in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preservation of Butter
DR. W. HAGEMANN has been investigating the cause of butter becoming rancid, which is the immediate result of the liberation of butyric acid. He says it is not the result of butyric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Acre of Wheat
PROFESSOR SHELTON informs us through the Industrialist that the experimental acre of Wheat west of the Kansas Ag. College farm has just been threshed, showing a yield of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. the Care of Farm Machinery
THE advantage of keeping farm machinery form unnecessary exposure to the weather is cogently insisted upon by the Ohio Farmer, which says:…
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Mr. E. R. EVANS, J.P., of Penrose Villa, appears determined that his stock shall continue to deserve the honour of being the premier dairy herd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. Advantages of Dairy Farming
To the superficial observer, the chief reason for assigning to the dairy industry of this country superior advantages over other branches of agriculture, would be that of its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sericulture. Red Rust in Wheat
THE great enemy of the colonial wheat-grower—"Red Rust"—is a minute parasitic fungus, having habits of life as definite in character as those of the plants it feeds on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Red Rust in Wheat
THE great enemy of the colonial wheat-grower-" Red Rust"— is a minute parasitic fungus, having habits of life as definite in character as those of the plants it feeds on…
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