Agricultural and Pastoral Local Sugar Supply
Movements In sugar are as eccentric as those of stock; While we have the Harwood mill turning out. sugar by hundreds of tons weekly, nearly the whole of which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1904
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Sheep With Tails on Runners
A species of sheep that is common in Egypt and Syria is so encumbered by the weight of its tail that the shopherds fix a place of thin board to the upper part, where…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bundaberg Sugar Crop
The figures available presage heavy bounty payments In the Bundaberg district for white grown cane this season. Up to the end of September the tounage claimed, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Orange Crops
A report from Parramatta states that during the week prices for oranges and thorny mandarins advanced, but still the figure received from the fruit ls far from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Price of Butter
Dairy farmers are again being supplied With ample evidence that first quality butter rarely realises its value in Sydney. Owing to the drought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying on the Borrige
Mr. W. J. Kirton, who was formerly dairying in the Big Scrub country, on the Richmond River, writes as under to the 'Raleigh Sun:--Knowing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Butter Imports
Great Britain is now 'importing the vust total of 210,000 tons of foreign and colonial butter per annum, and this though the home production continues to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Price of Butter
Dalry', farmers are again being supplied with ample 'evidence 'that first quality but ter rurely millson its value in Sydney, writes the "Herald." Owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Butter at Islington Show
ACCORDING to the cable received last week Canada made a great display in the colonial section of the dairy show at Islington. Although the section is specially arranged for the colonial dairy produce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Use of Farm Separators
An article from E. H. Farrington, in the "Detroit Five Press," on the use of hand separators on farm summarises the advantages and disadvantages of the system…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm, Field, Dairy
Milking cow's by electricity is the subject of a report from Consul Warner, Germany, in which he describes the newly-invented apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Potato Crop
We learn that several farmers along the river, in order to try and take advantage of the prices now ruling, have commenced digging their early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grafton Dairy Co., Ltd
The milk received by the Company's factory during September totalled 43,761 gallons, producing 17, 7371bs. of butter, which was sold mostly at 9½d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Gossip. Valuable: Fodder Plant's--soja Beans and Cow Peas--Nervous Cows--Hints on Shoeing Horses
The soja bean is an excellent leguminous fodder plant, capable of yielding 10 or 12 tons of fodder to the acre, which can be utilised as green…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Butter Trade
The facts that have been elicited by the Victorian Butter Commission regarding the swindling of the dairymen by the middlemen have to some extent prepared the N.S.W. butter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yield of A 100-Acre Dairy Farm
A NEW ZEALAND dairy farmer, writing to a Taranaki paper, gives some very interesting particulars concerning the yield…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural and Pastoral
Reports from various districts, coastal and inland, indicate there is a slump in cattle. Prices have receded generally about 20s per head. What effect a copious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Domain Farmers
In the no-confidence debate, in the Federal Parliament, Mr. Chanter (N. S. W.) traversed Mr. G. H. Reid's political record, to show that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Training Boys for Farm Work. "
An excellent example of the good that might be done in training boys for the farms is found at Ballarat. Mr. Arthur Kenny, the superintendent of the Ballarat…
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