Farm and Garden Wintering Idle Horses
On most farms there is not enough work during the winter season to keep constantly employed half the number of teams kept busy during seed time and harvest. Many…
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Farming & the land, 1895
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Farm and Garden Winter Butter Making
Only within the last 16 years have dairymen learned how to make good butter in winter. There are two things especially looking in old fashioned winter butter—color…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and District. Farm and Other Lands
At thin season of the your enquiry is made as to farming bad other land ina this district, arid with the view of-in some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Poultry Replies
Eggs must remain covered by the limewater as long as it is desired to preserve them. Wheat is an excellent feed for poultry, and one kind on wheat is as good as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fluke in sheep
An item of importance and of general interest, even outside Australia, has been submitted to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture. It is that the hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Ducklings
Ducks are the most easily reared of all domestic fowls, when property treated. Breeding ducks must be kept warm and comfortable through the cold months. Coop by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Cows
Rations for dairy cows must vary with the animals fed, the stage of lactation, the system of farming followed, and many other conditions. It might therefore [?] futile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Make the Dairy Pay
Determine in your own mind the amount of butter a cow should produce weekly to pay for her food and the labor of caring for her. Subject each animal to an individual test and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden. the Broody Hen
Is there any other useful member of the animal creation treated as badly as the poor old clucking hen? Although but carrying out her natural and useful instinets she meets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Danish Butter Makers
In Denmark butter experts are engaged who receive from all butter-makers a sample of their product once a fortnight. If the article falls from the standard of excellence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter From Milk
Time does not permit me to go into details to shown the [?], but much investigation has demonstrated the fact that for each pound of fat in milk one should make about one and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming In Victoria. a Contrast with New South Wales
In view of the assertions as to protection benefiting the farmers, and the contra- assertions that a freetrade policy gives them greater opportunities, Mr. J. C. Worboys,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden the Fowls at the Raen
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Fatten Cattle Quickly
To fatten cattle most rapidly at this reason of the year provide a pasture with at least one acre of grass for each cow or steer. Begin with 2lb of corn meal and 1lb crushed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden Onion Maggots and Scallions
There is no known remedy for the onion maggot where onions are cultivated on a large cattle. The best known moans of prevention is to roll the soil as soon as the seed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden Sows Eating Their Pigs
Give the cow 2 to 3 lbs of salt pork (out in pieces half an inch thick) immediately after farrowing, provided there are any signs of trouble that way. This has proved a sure…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Profits in Farm Poultry
Profits in farm poultry depend more upon the care it receives than most people think. For the average farmer there is probably more profit in selling eggs than raising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Fodder for Stock
Fodder is an essential article of diet for stock. It helps in the assimilation of the other foods, and should be fed with rich foods, as clover and timethy. Most farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat
Behold the sheavea of precious wheat— The stalks of yellow, ripened grain— O'or which at morn the lark sang sweet, And gently fell the summer rain;…
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