Dairy and Cow-ball Floors
We understand that dairymen in the district are receiving official intiuation that the provisions of the Act must be complied with respecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1897
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American Butter
Messrs, Dunham Brothers, report that their recent importation of butter from America is going off satisfactorily at a shilling per 1b. The shipment was more for an experiment than anything…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall in Prince of Butter. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
To-day it was decided by a large firm to reduce the wholesale price of creamery butter to one shilling per 1b The fall of 2d was the chief topic o£…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR J. L. Thomson's Tour. Export of Butter, Poultry, and Egg's
MR J. L. THOMSON, of the Department of Agriculture, has been touring the northern rivers to meet the farmers for the purpose of spreading…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Experimental Farm
THE Minister for Mines and Agriculture returned on Saturday from his visit to the Wagga experimental farm. Mr Smith reports progress in many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Singleton Argus Wednesday, August 11th, 1897. Hovel Farm for Singleton
The movement, with the object of getting the Government to establish a model farm at Singleton, cannot be too Btrongly supported. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Model Farm Exhibit for the Show
The Secretary of the Northern Agricultural Society on Monday received the following interesting letter from the Under-Socretnry of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letter to the Editor. an Experimental Farm for the Maitland District
SIR,—At a meeting of the H.R.A. & H. Association reported in the Mercury of the 28th June ult., appears a letter in reply from the Under-Secretary to the effect that "Mr. Campbell recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Experimental Farm at Muswellbrook. Deputation to the Minister. the Suggestion Favourably Considered by Mr. Smith. Sydney
Messrs. R. G. D. Fitz Gerald, M.L.A., Mr. R. T. Keys (President of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association), and Messrs. B. Cowan and P. Healy, President and Vice-president…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Butter Factory at Narrabii
Yesterday a telegram was received by the Minister of Agriculture from Mr. Buchanan, one of the delegates at the recent dairy conserence, stating that it was intended to start a butter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The World's Production of Wool Cotton, and Silk
Some interesting facts with reference to the world's production of wool, cotton, and silk have been extracted from a French report by Mr. E. Russell, of the Victorian Customs statistical…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farm & Dairy
Americans are great believers in sub-soiling. For their faith in this respect they have good grounds. The following is a clipping from a Yankee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Commercial Farms
With the view of placing the experimental farms in connection with the Agricultural Department upon a more satisfactory footing, and dividing the commercial from the purely experimental in these…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Proposed Experimental Farm at Muswellbrook
In Thurday's Mercury was published a telegraphic account of the interview the Muswellbrook deputation had with Mr. Sydney Smith on the above subject, and I now (says our Muswellbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experimental Farm at Muswellbrook. Sydney
Messrs. R. G. D. Fitz Gerald, M.L.A., Mr. E. T. Keys (President of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association), and Messrs. B. Cowan and P. Healy, President and Vice-president…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & Garden. Pig Feeding Experiments
Accounts are to hand of experiments in fattening pigs that were conducted in the Copenhagen Experimental Laborator during the period of 1890-2. Their object was to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crops We May Grow. Pop Corn
At the Sydney Agricultural Show, of 1896, there was a corn-popping machine at work— (the same machine could be used for roasting pea-nuts),—and in talking with the proprietor,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Upper, Hunter, Model Farm The Deputation from Muwsellbrook
A deputation representing the Muswellbrook Fanners' and Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Associations waited upon the Minister for Mines and Agriculture on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Expert on Dairying
At the South Coast centres last week, Mr O'Callaghan, the dairy oxpert, spoke highly in favor of the South Coast Durham cattle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Produce Markets. H. R. Farmer's Co-operative Co., Ltd., Report
Butter 10¼d to 1s 2d lb, dripping 2d to 4d, eggs 6d to 8d doz, honey 2s 4d to 2s 10d small tin, 2d to 3d lb, hams 6d to 8d, bacon 5d to 6½d, cheese 4d to 5d, pork…
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