Selecting Dairy Cows
POSSIBLY there are no infallible rules for selecting cows, but in a general way it may, be said that a good milking cow is about the opposite in…
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Farming & the land, 1894
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Dairy Notes. Difference Between the Babcock Test and the Churn
A WRITER in the American Agriculturist says: The best methods of skimming milk will give in the cream nearly all the butter fat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. The Butter Market in London
SOME time ago " Thistledown" wrote in the Australasian —" The statements that have frequently been circulated as to there being no demand for butter in London except…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy Cow
Is not the dairyman most egregiously cheated when he keeps one or more poor cows to eat up the profit of his good ones? It is a mistake to keep a dairy cow that puts her fat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Threatene[?] Blight. the Sugar Industry. the Market for the Farmer Never Sure or Steady
THE red rust which shrivels the ears of wheat, the smut which converts the cobs of maize into bunches of sooty nastiness, the phylloxera which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worn-out Farms
WE often hear of, "worn-out", farms, but in reality there is no such thing. Land can be exhausted temporarily of its fertility, but it can never be used up completely. It may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes
PRACTICAL dairymen know how very difficult it is to get hold of really good profitable cows. Five heifers out of every ten raised are worth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Political & Social Notes. Australain Butter and Meat
THE news just received from England concerning the state of the butter market in that country is not comforting to those of our farmers who are engaged in the business…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Breeding for Dairy Purposes
SEEING that dairy farmers all over the river are desirous of securing the best animals, a few hints taken from various men of renowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thc Department of Agriculture Richmond River Experimental Farm
COMMENTING on the benefits of this institution the Sydney Mail writes:—The Richmond River Experimental Farm has in hand an object lesson of the profitableness of deep…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Notes
As an outline of how successful dairying is curried out in Victoria may contain some hints to the farmers of the Clarence, we give the following taken from the Australasian—…
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IN a recent number of the American Agriculturist a correspondent writes: That nearly every dairyman who understands the Babcock milk test knows-that more butter should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Homes
EDGAR L. VINCENT writes —" There is some danger that farmers will become so intent on making their lands pay a money return that they will lose sight of much that is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loan Money for Farmers
THE two morning papers have condemned in the severest terms the proposal of the New Zealand Government to borrow £1,500,000 a year, if necessary, for a certain time, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales Butter
BUSINESS is apparently not running as smoothly with the Dairy Farmers' Export Association as some of its supporters desire. A meeting of the Association was held on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Make a Big Corn Crop
MR. H. C. CRANE writes in the Rural Australian— I found long since that to produce a crop equal to the capacity of the soil it grows upon, the land, must be uniformly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Exportation in the Coming Season
LAST week at Nowra Mr. Foley (commission agent) said: If the dairymen wanted to compete in London they must follow in the foot steps of producers at home, who were extra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coming Potato Crop
IT is computed that the summer crop of potatoes on the Clarence for 1804 will commence going into market next month. Not withstanding the precarious rainfall, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AGRICULTURIST & GRAZIER. Experimental Farming near Grafton
THE idea of the proposed experimental farm on the Common, near Grafton, being worked by the aborigines at the Home borders on the romantic, and no wonder the Central Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Southampton Dairy Company
MR. EDITOR— I see that my report on the shortage of butter in the Southampton Dairy Factory Co., and published by you, has been partly copied by the Mercury with comments…
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