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South Coast · Farming & the land
75 stories in South Coast's papers · page 4 of 4
IN a letter from Atlanta, Ga., to the N. Y. Sun, a correspondent relates the result of some experiments recently made by Col John P. Fort, on the draining of swamp lands in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is a great deal of difference in the size of eggs, and therefore a difference in the nutritive value per dozen when used for domestic purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE are many things to observe in preserving the health and growth of hogs, especially where a farmer has a large number of them. The common saying is, "as dirty as a hog."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following list of remedies for the domestic veterinary treatment of farm stock, arranged in alphabetical order, with the doses for different animals by Professor Brown, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRASS is treated with greater neglect and abuse than anything on the farm; it is trodden under foot, it gets no fertilisation ; and yet we expect abundant pasture and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALONG the feet of the Sierra Nevada on the west side, interning between the foothills proper and the great alluvial plain, there is a strip of barren land from one to five miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. P. PARRY, a leading American nurseryman, gives the following opinion on this subject : " According to my observation, where-ever the soil was kept finely pulverised and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the paper by Mr. James Howard, M.P., entitled "Notes on Cart-horses," in the newly-issued number of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE members and friends of the Dairyman's Protection Society held their annual picnic in the pleasure grounds of Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany, on Wednesday. Six [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EVERY farm should be an experiment station, and every farmer an experimenter. We don't mean by this that the whole farm and the whole time of the farmer should be devoted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Over-churning butter has the same effect as over-working; so when the pellets are about the size of No. 22 shot, churn slowly for a few moments, and if the pellets do not adhere to each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"One of the smartest things I ever saw in my travels," said a passenger from the West, "was a cowboy stopping a cattle stampede. A herd of about six or eight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A correspondent recommends to the readers of the Prairie Farmer that wool-growers who hare been in the habit of annually using the patent "dips" so much advertised, or even the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL soils not naturally barren when in a virgin state are capable of sustaining what may be termed their normal amount of vegetation, and they will continue to do so so long as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In consequence, of the variety of moist and dry climates in which it can be cultivated, the potato may fairly be said to possess a wider geographical range than any other…
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