The Butter Market
REGARDING the butter market a London correspondent, writing on November 11, says:--There is not that good demand for Australian butter that everybody expected…
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Farming & the land, 1899
338 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 17
Butter Tests
At the Berry Show last week the butter and milk tests created great interest. D. Hyam'a Blossom, the cow that won the butter teat last year, put up another record, giving 21[?]lb…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diminutive Cattle
One of the greatest curiosities among the domesticated animals in Ceylon is a breed of cattle known to tho zoologists as the "sacred running oxen." They are the dwarfs of the whole ox…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wheat Business
Between 13 and 14 bushels per acre is the result of the wheat harvest in the Dubbo district that has just been gathered in. That is not suggestive of drought; but it is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fiji Sugar Crop
THE FIJI TIMES of the 10th inst. says :—"As the sugar season draws to a close, we are in the position to hazard a guess at the net result of the campaign. We glenn that, not withstanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Review of Farm and Dairy Products
The rain of the past few days has brightened the outlook for the moment, but it does not obliterate the fact that the past year has been one of considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Granular Butter
Nearly every form of cheese will granulate butter. The only secret in the matter is to stop the churn at the right stage and add the water,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act
New regulations have been issued under this Act. Those relating to parties carrying on the business of pig-keeping and poultry farming are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying in New Zealand
Though New Zealand is a large grain-producing colony, she is well to the front in dairying also. The exports of butter for the year ending…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sugar Co. and the Farmers
Sir,—The cheques for back payments for the past two reasons, and the bonus for this year under the new terms on which the Company bought the cane crop, have been issued. The farmers are in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Butter Industry
THE adjourned meeting of the Central Refrigerating Butter Factory for the Nambucca was held on Friday last at the School of Arts, Macksville. There were about 20…
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A patent has boon taken out in France for a new method of making butter. In this process the cream is subjected to lactic acid fermentation until the fat globules are inclosed in a sufficiently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Coast Cattle
THE s.s. Euroka last week brought another mob of 21 Springing heifers—many close to calving—for Mr. F. T. Matthews, of the Raleigh 'Estate. These cattle were, selected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat and Oats on the Coast
In reply to a correspondent at Branxton, who enquires regarding the advisability of planting wheat and oats in the coast districts for grain or chaff, the Principal of the Hawkesbury…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Notes for the North
SOW rape seed for an autumn crop. The land should be in fine t[?] for rape sowing ; about 121b : of seed will sow an acre broadcast. Sow cow peas in drills 3 feet apart about 6 inches apart in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Euglish Farming
English farmers have just. completed the ingathering of one of the best all-round harvests of the present century. From all parts of the country come reports of large crops of grain,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying and Fertility
It is frequently stated that milk production is exhausting on the soil. and tends to reduce the [?] most rapidly. Sometimes this belief is based upon an incomplete knowledge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather and Crops
Close, muggy weather, with a shade heat ranging between 90 and 95 degrees, during the early part of the week, culminated on Wednesday afternoon in a heavy downpour of rain,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural Notes. Ensilage in Dairy Farming
Every year the method of preserving green forage by turning it into ensilage is coming more into favour. Prejudice against the new fangled notion is gradually dying out. A few progressive and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. Dairy Returns for 1898
The following returns show the quantities of milk separated at the factories, creameries, and private separating stations in the district, and butter made by the F. F. and I…
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