Agriculturist & Grazier. Preparing Soils for Crops
"Thistledown" says — "A great many farmers, intelligent upon many points, make serious mistakes in preparing soils for crops. Something beyond deep ploughing and…
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Farming & the land, 1897
234 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 12
Butter Export Scheme. the F. F. and I. Co.'s Proposal
The conditions of the Export scheme referred to by Mr. Pateson, when in Grafton recently, has been laid before the directorates of the district dairy companies, with a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming on the Richmond
Our Tatham correspondent writes:—The cane has made very little growth during the last few months on this Arm. The light rainfall has contributed in no small degree…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairying in N. S. Wales
Referring to the recent statements made by the Minister for Agriculture. Mr. Frank M'Caffrey takes exception to some of the statements made by Mr. M'Lean,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Circus Farm
The "glorious climate of California" is being put to a new and interesting use. A man has purchased 500 acres in Merced County, and intends to add to it 500 more, not for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. the Price of Colonial Butter
In our editorial columns of Tuesday we referred to the great difference in price between Danish and Australian butter. The same point is referred to by the London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales Butter
SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—Mr. O'Callaghan, the Government Dairy Expert, has written to the Minister for Agriculture, pointing but that unreliable and misleading reports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exporting Butter
The prent decrease of the quantity of butter exported in the year 1896, as compared with other years, has directed attention to the causes which have led to this result. In the…
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The recent rainfall has come, very opportimely for those who have decided to experiment in wheat culture on the Clarence. The land can be got ready without much…
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The endeavour of a Sydney firm to utilise frosted cane as a food for dairy cattle should be encouraged by growers, who are already in the unfortunate position of having that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculturist & Grazier. the 1897 Maize Crop
During the past three months maize has been shipped from the Clarence at the rate of fully 100,000 bushels per month, the quantity for the quarter ending May being 310,252…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maize Crop in Warwick
The district of Warwick is well advanced in the business of maize culture, and in the matter of busking and threshing is decidedly ahead of our coastal rivers. This season the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Share-farming in France
A feature of French agriculture that attracts many travelling Australians is the almost universal adoption of the system of farming by shares. When Mr. H. M. Gooch lately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Dairymen's Association
Mr. EDITOR.—The present movement by dairymen to form themselves into an association, to protect their interests against monopolies, etc., is, in my opinion,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Improve Herds with Good Bulls
"Radiator," an acknowledged anthority in dairying, contributes some very intelligent articles to the Victorian paper The Weekly Times. He argues that education in the…
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In a paper In the Journal of the Bath and West of England Society on "Butter Dairying und Buller Cows," the following conclusions are given:…
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MR. EDITOR.—As the scheme submitted by the F.F. and Ice Company is now brought under the notice of those interested in the dairying industry, it is well that such should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pasteurisation of Butter. Very Valuable Experiments
Mr. Robert Crowe, the assistant dairy expert of Victoria, at a conference, gave some particulars as to experiments in pasteurisation conducted by the Government staff during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Milk Test on the Farm
A Mr. C. L. Hill recently said at Wisconsin: "If a farmer would be in the front ranks, he must study every detail of the business, It is not enough to know that the cows…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Substitute for Wheat
Another substitute has been suggested for wheat flour, as if that nourishing article of food were not cheap enough in all conscience, says…
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