The farmer. Dairy Management
HAVING dealt exhaustively in last year's Annual with the chemistry of dairy farming, the writer proposes to devote the present article to a brief description of certain…
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Farming & the land, 1885
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Sheep's Horn for Horseshoes
A new horseshoe has lately been experimented with at Lyons, France. The shoe is made entirely of sheep's horn, and is found particularly adapted to horses employed in…
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A POTATO digger has been patented by Mr. Reuben R. James, of Rising Sun, Ind. This invention relates to ploughs for turning potatoes out of the ground, curved bars or…
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IN The Agricultural Gazette', Mr. W. C. Spooner, M. R. C. V. S., the well-known writer on veterinary and agricultural subjects, thus describes his method of judging agricultural horses:-…
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COLONEL F. D. Curtis, writing in an American contemporary, says:—Like Prof. Sanborn, I have changed my opinion regarding the comparative value of the Small and Large…
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I WAS talking with a sturdy old farmer the other day, and asked him hair many boys he bad. "Five," he replied, "and I'm going to make…
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A CORRESPONDENT of the New English Farmer, writes thus sensibly and practically:— The farmer should set apart a small piece of land especially for growing small fruits for…
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Live Stock Journal says that there is an opening for the economist to supply a palpable deficiency in the English market. There is a scarcity in the…
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FEW farmers realise how much waste there is in harvest when grain is allowed to get fully ripe before cutting. In old times, when grain was oradled and bound, and then set…
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THE use of blood an a food for cattle has, it is stated, been the subject of experiment in Denmark by a chemist, who, as a result, has now invented and patonted a new kind of cake, in…
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WITH the step of n Caesar—as sturdy and true Massive-chested, and brawny of arm, Through the chills of the morning, the fogs and the dew…
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DR. N. H. PAREEN, State Veterinarian of Illinois, read a paper before the Chicago Eelectic Medical Society, on the subject of " Glanders in Man and Animal." Glanders,…
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THE [?] Annual Show, under the auspices of the above society, was held in Wednesday and Thursday the 4th and 5th fast., the weather being beautifully [?] for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Trip to the Bega District. (Written for the Bega Gazette.) Notes on Dairy Farming and the "Cow Country."
Yes, I will christen this district "cow country" for never in my life before have I seen so many cows. Although pigs flourish hero in thousands, supplying…
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AFTER looking over the columns of the Rural New Yorker, one would suppose that the subject of butter-making had been entirely exhausted: but on an examination of the…
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The process of manufacture need not be described for your readers, as most know the steps taken to make cheese ready for market; I can only add that if Sydney…
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ALTHOUGH it is estimated that the absence of all restrictions on their importations, affords shippers of Canadian cattle to great Britain an advance of at least 815 per head over their…
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This well known inventor, whoso name will always be associated with improved harvesting machinery, died in chicago, May 13, 75 years of age. He was born in Virginia,…
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We have records to show that, from the earliest ages cheese was an article of diet, Some one has said that the ancient Britons did not know the process of…
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The most economical and appropriate combination of food for fattening sheep, says Professor W. Sanborn, will depend upon the cost of different foods in the locality. Nearly all…
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