The Typical Dairy Cow
A typical dairy cow is an angular, wedge-shaped animal, with a general appearance of leanness. She will have a bright, intelligent look--the…
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Farming & the land, 1906
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A Fortune for Wool-dealers
In their annual review of the wool trade Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., the well-known London wool brokers, tell bow a fortune can be easily made…
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Judges—Fat cattle, Mr. Jas. M'Millan; dairy Cattle, Mr. A. Moles; Durhams, Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan. Stewards—Messrs. A. Eggins, T. H…
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Bacon—Pineapple 8½d, Bodalla 7½d. Hams —Pineapple 11d. Cheese 5¾d to 6¼d. Honey plentiful and dull, 2d to 3d. Beeswax 1/1 to 1/2…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—In the State of New York there are 20,000 tenantless farms for sale, owing to the expansion of business in the towns denuding the rural districts of…
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Judge—Mr. N. M'Leod. Stewards—E. E. Crispin, N. J. Short and A. H. Doust. The recent drought interfered with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London Wool Sales. London
At the London wool sales competition was spirited, with full supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rotation of Crops. Algerian Oats for Dry Districts
At last meeting of the Beetaloo (S.A.) Agricultural Bureau, the hon. secretary read a short paper on Algerian oats. He said:—Among other crops that can be…
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Queensland seems disturbed as to the disposal of its big maize crop, the area of which is placed at 130,000 acres. "There is," says the "Courier," "plenty of support…
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The Liverpool Mile—Graceton, 8-12 (Barnen), l; Sir. Lennard, 9-5, 2: Dromedary, 7-10, 3. Won by a neck. Time 1m. 43½s. The Jumpers Flat Race, 1¼in.—Blue Streak,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm, Field and Dairy. Butter Factory Floors
Substitute as soon as possible a cement floor for the wooden one now in the factory. Grade the ground to a slant of one inch in six feet to a…
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Under the Caption "Glazed Butter" German papers state that butter can be glazed by the use of sugar; that is, it cao be coated with a glass-like…
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Wilting on the value of farmyard manure, Mr. Shortt, chemist to the Experimental Farms, Canada, mokes the following remarks in a recent…
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The successful dairyman adds kindness, and regularity to skilful feeding. It will be found profitable to milk the heifer as long at possible the first…
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My experience with and observation of the Babcock tester have mostly been in dairies where milk is taken to the creamery or milk station, writes H…
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Short butter weights continue to be a grievance both locally and in Londan. So far as London is affected, the trouble is held to he largely with the system which obtains in…
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The largest farm in America, and probably in the world, is situated in the south-western part of "Louisiana, and extends 100 miles north and west. It was…
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Nothing is more interesting in the literature of agriculture than the theory of soil renovation and plant feeding through the restitution to the soil of the constituent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers and Their Fowls. No. 6
The time is approaching when it will be necessary for the farmers to decide on the new birds that are either to replace his old stock, or to introduce fresh blood to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farm, Field and Dairy. Home Separators and Separated Cream
The following hints on the proper working and care of the separator on the farm, for the production of cream suitable for the manufacture of butter…
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