School Crop Experiments
The president of the Canterbury (N.Z.) Agricultural College, speechmaking the other day, told an interesting story of a Victorian school teacher's experiments,…
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Farming & the land, 1906
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Phosphate for Dairy Pasture
The good effect of top-dressing dairy pastures is thus commented upon by a "Leader" correspondent, who further suggests that the cause of the frequent ailments of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Strange Apathy in Regard to the Dairy Bull
Nothing is more surprising, a contributor to "The Leader" writes, than the apathy shown among the majority of dairy farmers with regard to the bull, As to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers and Their Fowls. Special for the "Examiner." (No. 2.)
Scientific writers of poultry have laid down theories which they say must be put into practice before success can be attained by poultry keepers. We agree with them to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →North Coast Co. and the Farmers. the Question of Freights
At the quarterly meeting of the Clarence farmers Union, held at Brushgrove recently, the following resolution was passed: "That in view of the concession…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Act Conviction. Upset by the Full Court
A case which gives a decided and much needed set back to the readiness with which convictions can be secured against dairy men and others under harsh Acts and harsher regulations was decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warwick Farm RACES—Saturday
Hurdles, 2m.—Ryde, by Splendor (imp.) —Young Rosabelle, 9-12, 1; South Head, 10-2, 2: Clodian, 9-11, 3. Ruenot fell. Won easily by four lengths. 3.54…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terms Used in Butter Making
The three principal qualities of butter are its flavor, texture and condition. There are degrees, however., of each of these, the different terms…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm, Field and Dairy. Pot-bellied Calves
Cattle over one year old never shew much tendency to be pot-bellied. I is weakness of the younger, particularly of calves that are being reared on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Dairy Instructress
Miss N. Breen, dairy instructress, reecntly appointed by the Department of Agriculture, has for the last three months been doing good work on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm Cream Separator
The cream separator for farm use has proved its utility, and we want to impress upon those of our readers with milch cows the absolute necessity of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Breeding Dairy Cattle
Dairy breeders must never lose sight of the great principle that all future development lies in the direction of holding steadfastly to two principles:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raleigh Butter Factory
FOR the month of January, at the above factory, all previous monthly records were outclassed-the increase in manufactured butter being 1475lbs. Statistics say : Cream…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Butter in London
AT a recent interview between the Premier (the Hon. J. H. Carruthers) and Mr. C.E.D. Meares, manager of the Coastal Farmers Co-operative Society, Ltd., reference was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy and Creamery
When the dairyman has a sufficient number of heifers in milk, all by the same thoroughbred sire, to supplant the original herd of promiscuously selected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The C.S.R. Co. and the Farmers. The New Agreement
To-morrow the canegrowers of the district will have an opportunity of meeting the delegates appointed by the Farmers' Union to meet the C.S.R. Co.'s management in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Store Cattle
In discussing this subject, a correspondent writes:—There is no more unjust or unreasonable law in the State than "The Diseased Animals Act." Under its…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Notes
In the last issue of the "Agricultural Gazette," Mr. T. W. Hanmer, of the Experimental Farm, writes:— Potatoes.—The spring planting in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →First-class Dairying Lands
The first big experiment in land settlement under the 1995 Land Act will be made shortly in the Tweed country. A number of forest reserves and other…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers and Their Fowls. (No. III.)
The importance of egg production in the farmers' fowls cannot be over-estimated, and it behoves him to be most particular on this point when the time comes for him…
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