Farm and Garden
Lands which do not pay a profit for cultivation should be put into grass. If well stocked with good cattle, they will then at least lose you no money…
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Farming & the land, 1893
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Determining Butter-fat in Milk
PURSUANT to an annouucement in the September issue of the Agricultural Gazette, the Department of Agriculture obtained a Babeock Milk Tester…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lime on the Farm
No well regulated farm should be without a barrel or box of lime. Nothing purifies the stables quicker, and nothing is better to put into the pig-pens or chicken houses to prevent filth and vermin. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm and Garden. How Milk Is Analyzed
The chemical analysis of milk is not complicated nor difficult. A small dish is accurately weighed and the weight noted. Into it is now introduced a small portion of milk, and both are again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Watchfulness in the Dairy
There are many mechanical devices of modern invention in use to facilitate the care of stock in winter, but let me tell you that no invention can ever take the place of an experienced man's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Central Markets
Grainger and Son report the following :— The supply of potatoes and maize during the week has been below the demand, farmers being unable to get their potatoes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Monday evening
Messrs. J. C. Young and Co. report:—The fortnightly wool sales commenced to-day, when we submitted a catalogue of 530 bales to a large attendance of buyers. Competition was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. H. GEDDES & CO. The Pastoral Finance Association Limited
The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and District Directors of J. H. Geddes and Co. The Pastoral Finance Association Limited was held last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 31sT JANUARY. (Before Mr C. S. Alexander, P.m.) Rescuing Cattle
GEORGE Pitt was charged by John Allen Ball with unlawfully rescuing cattle that had been seized for impounding…
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Yesterday, at the company's sheds, South Maitland, Mr. Swan disposed of the following catalogue:— 17301bs. butter from 3d to 1s per lb., 2170 dozen…
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At the Sydney Wool Sales on Wednesday, 60078 bales were submitted there was good competition and nearly everything was sold. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farming. Proposed Lecture in Scone
THE following letter has been received by Mr. J. A. K. Shaw:— "DEAR SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that I am starting on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:—We offered yesterday 4755 bales wool to a very full attendance of buyers; the catalogue was representative, the market very buoyant, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden. to Cluster Bee Swarms
When you know how, it is an easy and delightful occupation to handle bees. In fact the little economists seem to know their friends who love them and seem ready to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer Murdered by Boys
An extraordinary crime has been perpetrated near Ogema, a post office hamlet in Chippewa County, by twe boys. A boy named John Anderson,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Take-all and Dry Blight in Cereal Crops
AN article under this head appearing in the Agricultural Gazette, Vol. III Part 12, by Dr. N. A. Cobb, Pathologist to the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales
J. H. Geddes and C[?]. (the Pastoral Finance Association, Limited) held their eighteenth sale on Thursday submitting a catalogue of 2320 bales, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farming. Proposed Lecture in Scone
THE following letter has been received by Mr. J.A.K. Shaw:— [?] "DEAR SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that I am starting on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Agriculture. Take-all and Dry Blight in Cereal Crops
An article under this head appearing in the Agricultural Gazette, vol. III., part 12, by Dr. N. A. Cobb, pathologist to the Department of Agriculture, deals with a subject of such vast importance to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm and Garden. Why Insects Infest Plants
At the recent convention of American Florists in the course of an essay delivered by him, Mr. John Saul, of Washington, D.C., said:—" The observation and experience of a…
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