A Lady Farmer
Miss Isabel May, the lady farmer at Hockenden Farm, St. Mary Cray, is hurt by the imputation that she wears male attire. "Lady Jack," which is the title by…
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Farming & the land, 1906
763 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 39
Dairy Produce
Bacon, Pineapple 7¼d. Bodalla 6¾d. Hams, Pineapple 11d. Cheese, Bodalla 6[?]d. Beeswax, 1/1 to 1/2. Honey, 2d to 3½d. SYDNEY, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Grading Assured
Proceedings on Tuesday at the conference appointed to draft regulations for the Commerce Act were remarkably entertaining. There were endless skirmishing, Some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Convicting a Butter Faker
At Birmingham, on February 22, Peter Ambrose Debney, grocer, was summoned for a number of offences under the Food and Drugs Act and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter with a Guarantee
Compulsory grading of butter meets the same kind of objections as compulsory pest destruction in orchards, and compulsory plague-cleansing in cities. And it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Insurance
Victorian insurance rates for barns, milking sheds, and outbuildings generally are 22s 6d per £100 in the most hazardous districts, and 18s per £100 in the less…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Supply of Farm Labour
One of the topics discussed on all occasions when settlers meet is the question of the supply of farm labour. Listening to these discussions one may pick up a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Produce
Bacon—Pineapple 7¼d, Bodalla 6¾d. Hams —Pineapple 11d. Cheese—Bodalla 6½d. Honey 2½d to 3½d per lb. Beeswax 1/1 to 1/2…
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Byron Bay is a bay. The ocean rolls into it, and sings its wild song forever on the sandy beach. Whales still come and roll in its waters and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. London
The London wool sales have opened with an advance of about 7½ per cent. on the last series…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm, Field and Dairy. Pure Stock in Great Britain
The "Mark Lane Express" says that the annual bull sales in Great Britain of the various breeds, especially the Shorthorns, Hereford and Angus…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Export
WE have received a pamphlet giving a resume of the business transuded at the Butter Export Conference held in Sydney during Easter week. The conference was a most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Compulsory Grading of Butter
The " Sunday Times" writes :—Compulsory grading of butter meets the came objections as compulsory pest destruction in orchards, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairy
H. H. DEAN, Professor of Husbandry to the Ontario Agricultural College, referring to the matter in his report to the Canadian Live Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Adulteration
Mr. Otto Helmer, the well-known chemical analyst, states in a report just issued that at the present time butter is so skilfully and scientifically adulterated in factories…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Butter Market
Mathie and M'William, Glasgow, report.— Butter: Since our last report our markets have been completely demoralised in colonial butters, and prices have fallen very…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cattle Ticks
We learn from cattle owners in the district that ticks are unusually active for this period of the year, rendering frequent dipping imperative. Usually the cold weather…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Butter Bill
Messrs. Mills and Sparrow, butter agents of Tooley-street, London, in their weekly report to their Sydney agents, refer to the Parliamentary Committee which is taking…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Butter Export Trade
Since the recent rise of ½d per lb. in butter the export trade has been very dull, as the prices now ruling in London will not allow enough profit, if any, on butter for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural Recognition of Disease in Cattle
The body temperature of cattle is taken in the rectum, the regular fever thermometer (Fahrenheit) being used. Before introducing it, the column of mercury should be…
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