The Home and the Farm
Japanese gardens are the most fairy-like of places. You see in them tiny trees and flowering plants, ponds, bridges, summer-houses,…
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Farming & the land, 1894
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The Home and the Farm. The Fly Trouble
IN fly time, rip open an old sack, and when ready to milk, spread it over the cow's back. The result will surprise you, and the milkers need not to be told more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queer Crops
The means devised by certain landownere for the purpose of obtaining the utmost possible profit from their acres frequently cause the production of some queer crops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Trade
The manager of the shaw, Savill, and Albion line of steamers, who was interviewed on Wednesday last by three of the leading agents for coloniel butter, agreed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.s.w. Dairy Farmers' Export Association. Grader's Report
Referring to the packing and grading of butter for export, Owing to the severe weather during the past week preventing some of the boats arriving in time to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Home-made Measures for the Farm
It takes but little time to nail together several bushel or half bushel measures. The former are the more convenient. A standard bushel contains 2,150 24 cubic inches,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Hard Soap on the Farm
Nearly every farmer's wife can gave the grease necessary for , making all the soap needed in the family; One who has taken the first prize for hard soap at the country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →640 Acre Farms
This should be the proper sized farm at present for a bucolic with a large or rising family. The size will encourage combined wheat and sheep farms—now so well-to-do…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Home and the Farm. Daughters in Revolt
THE cry for more freedom, raised in the Nineteenth Century on behalf of young women under parental guardianship, will awake many responsive echoes (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Cattle Breeding
We take the following extract from a letter signed "Illawarra" in the Australian Field:—Jerseys are wonderfully docile and contented, and if protected, as all milking…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Streaky Butter
Streaks in butter are often seen after unusual care of the cream has been taken and preparation of the butter itself, which mystify and discourage the butter makers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.s.w. Dairy Farmers' Export Association. Grader's Report
Gentlemen,—I have to report for [?] week ending March 24th an increace in quantity of butter prepared for expert. The number of boxes packed and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying Notes
When butter is once softened by a high temperature, no matter how good its quality, its freshness, its grain and texture disappear and are superseded by that well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Crops
It is reported from France that M. Egasse of Archevilliers, in the Department of Euge et Loire, produced an average crop of potatoes per acre on forty acres. The tons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Her Majesty's Dairy
No farmer in England is fonder of taking prizes at county faire than is Queen "Victoria, and she treasures the medals won by her butter and cheese and the premiums carried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm of the Future
A writer of California, who has long been interested in the subject of agriculture, confidently asserts that the farm of the future will be the forty acre farm. This claim…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Profitable Winter Dairying
In every industry or business, the most profit is made in the byways, and outside of the well-worn and beaten track, in which competitors crowd each other. Thus, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairy Farmers' Association the Butter Export Trade
A meeting of the general executive of the Dairy Farmers' Association factory directors, and producers throughout the colony was hold at the office of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Harbor-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.s.w Dairy Farmers Export Association. Grader's Report
Gontleman,—During the week ending March 31st exceedingly large supplies of butter came forward, the market being well supplied throughout, consequently a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Minster of Railways and the Victorian Farmers
Mr. Rcihardson, the Minister of Railways talkoth in parables. A deputation of farmer waited on him to ask for reduction of freighte, and prodicted run for themselves…
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