How Protection Affects Farmers
WE quote from President Clavoland's address to Congress the following remarks on farmers and protection:—"The farmer and the agriculturist who manufacture nothing,…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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Agricultural Notes. (From Marlin’s Home and Farm.)
ASHES FOR TREES—A simple homely remedy for many the [?] and enemies is wood [?] or, if not to be had, coat ashes with a sprinkling of lime—but ashes; ashes to be used…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Feed for Dairy Cows
GREEN and succulent food is the best for milk cows, but the succulence of food should not be in excess. Food containing more than about 70 per cent of water will produce more milk by…
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THERE is one doubt the crop may be increased to some extent by the manner of planting ; Some have supposed that broadcast planting, will give the largest crop, but this is not…
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A dairyman of Scotland, in a lecture before an agricultural conversation gives the following suggestions, which will be found useful by those having the handling of milk on this side…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Field and Dairy. Wheat Production
I SEE by the Californian papers that the wheatgrowers of that state are complaining bitterly of the low prices, and statements are being made to the effect that the industry is not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broughton Village Butter Factory
[?] was held at the [?] [?] at [?] Village on Monday evening last the 10th inst to take into [?] the advisability of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Meeting of the Committees of the Wattleton Pastoral [?] cultural Society. “How to Milk the Old Cow” (By the Albert Re[?])
WATTLETON is situated within a hundred miles of the Pacific Ocean and [?] within the circulating radius of your paper, and if the geographical knowledge of your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FARM & GARDEN, Professor Henry on the Preparation of Ensilage
In Professor Henry’s ensilage articles, being published in the [?] Gaz[?] he says that last season he urged that the fodder bo wilted before it was put into the silo, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Produce at the Exhibition. Oats, Barley, and Maize
IN the display of oats, barley, and maize at the Exhibition there is much to learn concerning the production of those grains in the different Australasian colomes, but, as…
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The S. F. Chronicle has always strenuously advocated the irrigation or flooding of soil to be devoted to n wheat drop whenever practicable. While this may be troublesome,…
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A well-known wheat dealer, in an article recently contributed to Overland Monthly, figures out the profits on 4000 acres of wheat land, which be promises a Missouri farmer…
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A MESMERIC PLANT.—A plant grows in Mixteca, Mexico, which Ike natives call the ‘herb of prophecy.’ A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Centennial Exhibition. Lecture on Dairying.—a Plea for the Separator
ON Saturday evening a lecture entitled "A Homely Chat about Dairying " was delivered by Mr. D. Wilson at the gallery of the Government working dairy at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Amd Garden. Pine points of mi Incubator
An incubator may be described as a limied chamber, the temperature of whose atmosphere its humidity or moisture, its freedom from noxious gases, are under the cotrol of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles Dickens And His Less Farmer Portraits
When, in 1853-56 Dickens mado Paris his temporary home, his life there was passed among artists and in the exercise of his calling, and before he had been a week in his now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairymen’s Ten Commandments
MR. J. B. HARRIS, in his admirable Chess and Buthr Makersâ Hand-Book gives the fallowing decalogue for the guidance of dairymen :â…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes from Martin’s ‘Home and Farm’
THE SEASON’S WORK.— Lay out the season’s work so that the in available force will go to waste, and so that there shall be no expense for maintenance without its direct result on labour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Make Good Butter
I have learned by long experience about making what I call good butter, and preserving it nice and sweet after it is made. To keep butter good that is made in the fall is one thing,…
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