Practical Butter Working
In working butter never slide the paddle over the surface, as such treatment injures the grain. The best method is to remove the milk by using a gentle downward pressure…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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Farm and Dairy. [All Rights Reserved.] Original Articles. Flowers During Dry Weather
MOST flowers need but little attention as long as showery weather continues in spring, but they require care to produce good results during the hot, dry weather of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rural Industries. "The Farmer feedeth all."
The export of butter from Sydney for the week ended Saturday, according to the Custom House returns, amounted to 8252 boxes, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Commercial Fertilisers
OF late years the problem of soil fertility has been recognised us of greats importance, inasmuch attention to which is rewarded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Article. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks
POULTRY breeders generally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hatched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Be a Farmer's — Wife
' Just think, our new cook gets up at six. o'clock without being called.' ' She must be a jewel.' 'Yes; she's going to be married to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gigantic Sheep
Karl Hagenbeck, the well-known dealer in wild animals, when the East Africa Soudan began to fail as a source of supply of large and curious animals and tree finally closed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Harvesting Potatoes
If it is intended to market potatoes at the earliest period, then they may be harvested as soon as they are ripe, otherwise if the weather conditions continue favorable, they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bacteria for Farmers
For the past hundred years agricultural chemists have been asking the question whether it were possible to utilise the free nitrogen of the atmosphere as the food of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Land. "The Farmer feedeth all."
The Gosford district has proved itself me most profitable tomato-growing district in the State of N.S.W. The mild climate and the absence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Improving Corn
IT is of great importance to give great attention to the selection of seed, inasmuch as the kind of corn harvested depends so much upon the kinds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record Butter Producer
Writes the Maitland "Mercury":—"The cow holding the record for butter production in Australia, if not in the world, is owned by Mr. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Improving Potatoes
VERY much can be accomplished toward improving potatoes by carefully selecting the seed. Of course a great deal depends on the condition and circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Notes
During tho busy harvest time it often happens that milking is driven off until dark, or at least close upon it. Then the udders are apt not to bo properly cleaned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. "The Farmer feedeth all."
It is a good plan to always allow a pasture to get a good start in growth Wore stock are turned on to it. If fed too bare too soon grass never seems…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Selecting Seed Corn
WHEN in the field selecting seeds cars one should always have in mind the type of car toward which one is striving. It is a good plan to reserve for comparison…
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A storm of exceptianal violence has passed over Colo and Wheeney districts, and great destruction was wrought by hail and wind and torrents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Do Potatoes Degenerate?
IT is almost universally believed that seed potatoes degenerate so as to render it quite impossible to maintain the standard growth in any variety. It is commonly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Ploughing by Steam
HITHERTO there has been two systems of cultivating land by steam—first, that of the traction engine, drawing implements behind it; and second, the double…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. "The Farmer Feedeth All."
The prize money in connection with the late Gosford Show amounted to £127 4s 6d. The Society has been fortunate in securing a special…
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