Ostrich Farming
CHICKENS are unsatisfactory, as many chicken-raisere have learned by sad experience. Ostrichos, on the other hand, scorn to be all that could be desired, judging from the…
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Farming & the land, 1883
67 stories in South Coast's papers · page 3 of 4
Farmer Stebbins on the Bowery
DEAR BROTHER JOHN— We got here safe my worthy wife an me An then I looked the village through to see what I could see;…
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The books on sheep have seriously mi[?]led flockmasters on this subject. Almost any sheep owner will tell you that after a year the sheep [?]ets a pair or broad teeth yearly, and if you show…
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DEAR BROTHER JOHN,— I am very glad you sent that money through, By Cousin Soth, and not by mail, as I requested you!…
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WE notice that the American cattle breeders and holders and farmers in many parts of that continent are cultivating and using potatoes for feeding…
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THE practice of growing crops for the express purpose of being ploughed into the land as manure has been in use from an early period. The Italian farmer of the present day, in…
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There are several plants which have been in extensive use as green manures in Europe and America, and which, being well adapted to out climate, deserve the attention of the colonial…
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CHEESE CARD AND WHEY.—In his work "Dairy Farming." Professor Sheldon says :—"in the process of making cheese, the great bulk of the…
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There are several plants which have been in extensive use as green manures in Europe and America, and which being well adapted to our climate, deserve the attention of the colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Farm and Garden Notes. the Soil
THE prominent German agricultural chemist, wollny has lifts recently published an interesting year on the influences of the state of aggregation on the temperature of and the moisture…
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No good butter maker ever under-estimates the importance of correctly salting the butter. It is one of the delicate or fine art features of making the best quality. To know just how to do it,…
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On Wednesday evening last a meeting of dairymen, who had promised to become contributors to tho establishment of a Co-operation Butter find Choose Factory, in Kiama, was…
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A WRITERS in the Rural Home tolls of Several mistakes he has made. One was in cutting potatoes and allowing the pieces to remain in a barrel, where in a fow days they…
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IN an interesting communication to the Rural New Yorker, Professor Arnold makes the following remarks upon this subject:—"The strain…
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OF all animals" the sheep is the best restorer of the wasted soil. The horse and mule and cow deposit their excretions in masses on the grass, which kill all under them, and there…
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A celebrated breeder of Herefords in England, according to the London Live Stock Journal, recently addressed the following queries to a Gentleman who had tried the…
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THERE is a farmer who is Y's Enough to take his E's, And study Nature with his I's And think of what he C's…
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AT recent meeting of the Committee of the A. & H. Association of Kiama, the secretary exhibited the portrait of a prize Ayrshire bull which he had received from Mr. D. L. Dymock,…
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Joseph George, on bail, appeared to answer a charge of cattle stealing. Mr. Clarke-Irving prosecuted, and Mr. Rawlinson appeared for the defence…
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THE London Mark Lane Express remarks that Professor Brown, of the Ontario College of Agriculture, has been carrying out some experiments in feeding dairy cows with…
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