Bloat in Cattle
THERE is no way of preyenting bloating when cattle are feeding either upon alfalfa or clover, as the beasts overeat under certain conditions. When their digestive organs are a little out of…
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Farming & the land, 1884
75 stories in South Coast's papers · page 3 of 4
The farmer. Items of American Farming
ON the present exciting subject of American farming, there occur the following items in the letter of a correspondent of The Times:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Exhaustion of Colonial Soils. Editor of MacIvor's Farmer's Annual. Lecturer on Agriculture, Technical College, Sydney
THE ash-constituents and also the nitrogen of farm plants are obtained front the carbon, oxygen and hydrogen which by the way, form by far the greater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. A Little Good Blood Better than None
EXTRAVAGANT claims in behalf of any breed of animals or in behalf of improved stock in general, we believe do much harm. there are some statements which are often seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. A Word of Warning to Stock-breeders
WE do not feel quite comfortable as to the present tendency of thought and action amongst a large section of the breeders of high-class farm-stock. Without wishing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Profit from Poultry
I PROMISED some ago, says Mr. Henry stewart in the Rural New Yorker to give an account of the cost ant income of my flock of 20 hens for the whole year. The figures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decrease in Cattle
THE Scarcity of fat stock in the present year and the abnormally high prices which the [?] sale being cannot fail to set this [?] the production of beef and mutton thinking how…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Preserving Wood
THE agricultural editor of the New York Times says that the best preservative of shingles or any other kind of timber in some oil that soaks into the pores and protects…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The farmer. Cart-horse Breeding
THE chief points to be desired in a farming cart-horse are these:—Neck not long nor too thick; short and flat legs; four feet even, and not too distant; cheat wide; shoulders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How the "Best" Butter is Made
A BERKSHIRE County, Mass., farmer writes: "My object has always been to make the best butter—not the most profitable, necessarily, but the best Having this object in view, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Farmer. The Silo in America
MR. HENRY NOBLE of Pitsfield, member of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, talked of Agriculture, talked of silos and ensilage to about 200 members of the Deerfield Valley Farmers' Institute, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Rat Killing Sheep
IN the center of O'Connor's Kensington rat pit stood a stout, short legged sheep, with his neck encircled by a brass collar and his black nose sheathed in a kid muzzle. His name is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The farmer. Ensilage. PART I. Paper by Mr. H. M. Jenkins, Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
SILOS for the preservation of green food were originally mere pits or "graves," similar to those which are commonly seen on many English farms, and in which potatoes,…
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RECENTLY a number of residents of the Southern district forwarded to me, through Mr. G. Hindmarsh, an invitation to visit Unit locality, and help them to out the nature…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The farmer. Ensilage. Part Ii. Cost of Ensilage
FROM statements of expenditure which have been furnished me by several correspondents, it appears that the average cost of making silage is about 53. per ton, including mowing,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The farmer. Agricultural Education
THE discussion at the Farmers' Club upon the subject of experimental farms, naturally brings into consideration the general question of the spread of technical agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The farmer. Manure Values. MILK V. MEAT
A NUMBER of questions on subjects connected with agriculture are constantly coming be-fore me, of which many are only interesting to the sender; but there are others that have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Draught Horse-Breeding
IN the report which has just been issued by the Canadian Government, Mr. Dyke, the agent at Liverpool, makes lengthened allusion to the subject of horse-breeding. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Hints
Some milk producers object to turnips and other roots as a ration for dairy cows on the ground that they taint the butter. This is true, if fed in large quantities. But these same men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Stimulants for Chrysanthemums
LAST year I was, induced to try an experiment in chryeantemam growing, and for this purpose I purchased one pound of sul phate of ammonia, which I bottled and…
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