Crops for Silage
Any vegetation that stock will eat in its natural state will make good ensilage, and it will be much improved by the operation, especially for cattle. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1898
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Margarine and Feeding Cows for Butter
Last year a law was passed in Germany making is obligatory for all margarine manufacturera in that country to add at least ten per cent, of sesame oil to their products, so that subsequent mixtures of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Dairymen's Association
Towards the end of the month or beginning of Jane next several batohee of delegates from local dairymen's associations will be meeting in Sydnsy, and a strong endeavour will be made to form a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worn-out Farms
WE often hear of " worn-out" farms, but in reality there is no such thing. Land can be exhausred temporatiy of his fernity, but it can bever be used up completely. It may be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maize and Other Crops in Victoria
As the Victorian cereal crops and markets have of late formed a subject for discussion, we give the following particulars as taken from the official records published during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Just Suit the Farmers
THE Massey-Harris Farming Implements, regarded as the best in the world, are now on exhibition in this district. Farmers and all others interested in agriculture are invited to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Educate Farmers. Interest the Boys on the Farm
A farmer needs to possess a knowledge of soils, plants and animals, and, in addition, he requires to be a business man. This may be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and Federation. to the Editor of the Raleigh Sun
SIR,—The arguments put forward during the past week by opposing parties dealing with Federation were so conflicting in character that electors may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying
On the 26th March last Mr. J. B. M'Ewan, chief dairy expert, delivered a lecture at New Plymouth, N.Z., on "Dairying: Past and Present," and the first problem touched upon was the question, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter as a Weapon of War
"Sail on the starboard bow!" "What is she?" asked Captain Peiterazoon, looking anxiously in that direction; for in the Eastern seas 200…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clarence Farmer's Union
A MEETING of the Council of the C.F.P. and C. Union was held in the School of Arts, Maclean, on Saturday last. There were about a dozen delegates presents, representing branches at Chatsworth,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Farmers' Union. Disposal of Produce in Sydney
A meeting of Council was held at Maclean on Saturday, Mr. T. Hadfield (president) in the chair. A number of branches were represented…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Cattle Plague Psalm
The following is part, of a psalm sung in Osmotherly Church, Yorkshire, above a century ago. It was composed by the parish clerk on the occasion of the murrain, a severe distemper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Good Farming Chance
ON Saturday (to-morrow) afternoon) Mr. E. Hitchins will offer his dairy hers, farming implements, etc., for sale at his residence, Warrell Greek, near Macksville. Mr. Hitchins…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Rentals
At the end of the cresent month the leases on a number of farms in the Clarence district will expire. Generally speaking, terms of occupation under lease begin with July, in maize-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the Mercantile Marine, Or, on a Deep-sea Cattle Boat. [From the Glasgow Weekly Herald.]
It was fearfully, stiflingly hot in the Coquimbo's stokehole, for the deep cattle tramp, then homeward bound from the River Plate, was steaming…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Child Labor in Dairying
An interesting side light was thrown on our boasted dairying industry by a case which was heard at Lismore last week, wherein a boy thirteen years of age sued for wages. The boy's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmers and the Co
I HAVE at times during the past two years, through the columns of the ADVOCATE, endeavored to show the sugar growers of this district the position in which they stood in relation to the industry, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Practical Dairying
WRITING om the subject of systematic dairying "Upland" in the FARM AND DAIRY, says :—If some of our dairymen that are milking from 50 to 100 cows would have a spring balance always…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Allora Wheat
The Minister for Agriculture is doing his best to boom Allora spring wheat. He declares that it is a capital cereal, rapid in growth and good for milling purposes, and that…
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