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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land
15 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
IT is not necessary in this age of the world for the farmer to get up in the middle of the night and begin his work. The getting up so early in the morning is a relie of barbarism. It has made,hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE "sheep tallie." is one of the latest results of Yankee ingenuity. This is a small and neat instrument of nickel silver, about the size of an ordinary lever watch, and can…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR South Coast friends who have adopted the co-operative factory system of dairying in preference to the plan of "every one for himself," so honoured by our ancestors, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IN a letter to the Scotsman, Mr. E. T. Blunt, of Blaby Hill, Leicester, writes: 'I have several times been asked the question whether I considered ensilage a substitute…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A GOOD many jokes have been made at the expense of the farmer's appetite and the immense quaniity of viands and liquids which he is supposed to be able to stow away;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is well enough known that bone, when ground fine, makes on e of the best and cheapest manures. The need of farmers with abundant capital are well enough met…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As farmers and others are constantly losing valuable horses by their getting at wheat, which causes them to be 'blown,' the following remedy, says the Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE are in receipt of the first number of a new monthly publication issued by Messrs. James Martin and Co., of Sydney, and bearing the title of Martin's Home and Farm. The new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE are many of our selector-farmers who have extra good butter cows, but who do not know it. They have poor grass in their overstocked paddocks, and they do not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is a copy of the "Platform" adopted by the Bathurst Farmers' Union at a meeting held on Thursday, July 2—"That at the general election of members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Having seen a report in the Scrutineer of the 5th instant, about, a cow being roasted alive I denounce the statement as a falsehood, I candidly deny the cow being burnt, alive or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIr,—I beg to han into you ahandful of whoat as a specimen grown in my garden, the seed of which was magnatise l to prevent rusting; and here is the result. Pity it is that there was no response to my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Having noticed a letter in your valuable journal on the above subject, signed J. Ward, and feeling rather amused to hear of a crop of wheat grown from "magnetised" seed, I inspected the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →UPON Mr. E. A. Weight's sheeprin at Middlepit (S,A.), a very curions accident occured at the begginning of December,which might have resulted, in, the death, of 2500 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your correspondent, "Old Wheat grower," is well to do in innocence and wisdom. My folly is seen in the fact that I used terms out of his line. Had I stated that the seed wheat was electroplated,…
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