A Demonstration Farm. Irrigation Schemes
The State Government has decided to establish an irrigation demonstration farm in connection with the Barren Jack scheme, and Mr Lee has stated that he…
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Farming & the land, 1908
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Advance in Butter
is hardening. Sellers are asking 48s per cwt., for the shipment by the [?] to-day, and 148s to 150s by the [?] on Saturday, as compared with 140s…
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The second general meeting of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, will be held at the office of the company, Bowthorne, on the afternoon of the 29th instant, at two o'clock, when…
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There was a large attendance of buyers at the Bank Hotel this afternoon, when Mr. John O'Mara, the well-known auctioneer of Newcastle, offered an agricultural farm of about 26 acres, situated at…
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This morning the wholesale price of butter in Sydney was further advanced to 120s per cwt. for superfine branch, being a rise of 4s. Other grades have been advanced proportionately…
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Butter is hardening. Sellers are asking 146/ to 148/- per cwt. for the shipment by the Omrah, due to-day, and 148/- to 150/- by the lonic, due on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Making on the Farm. Milk Utensils and Their Care
In continuation of the article on butter making on the farm, published lust week, the bulletin just issued from the United States Department of Agriculture, from which we quote,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Store Cattle Sale
Messrs. Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Limited, report:—The sale at Muswellbrook of 678 store and young bullocks, at an average of £5 3s 8d, on account of Mr. Braggett, was a very successful sale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Branding Travelling Sheep
THE Inspector of Stock has received the following circular from the Chief Inspector re branding travelling sheep with the letter T:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Butter in London
Never since Australia first shipped her surplus butter to the home markets has the price been so high as at present. For a month it has been steadily rising, until the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sydney Wool Market
Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—We submitted a catalogue of 2074 bales on Monday distinctively above the average as a whole as regards quality, and including a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Supplies of Sheep at Homebush
Since the late bountiful rains the supplies of sheep to the Homebush yards have materially decreased, and values have considerably improved in stockowners' favour. For…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →General Strike. Timber Trade Stagnated. Butter Industry Blocked
Practically all the men engaged in the timber trade in Sydney, numbering some 2500, left -work on Wednesday. Pickets were posted at 6 o'clock, and at most…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
Mr. John Lavis, the energetic manager of the Bowtherne Co-operative Butter Factory (Limited), reports a satisfactory state of affairs. During the past month 73 tons 7cwt. 0 qr.,10lb. of butter were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Record Dairy Output
For the month of January the North Coast Co-operative Company had a record pay, both for output and turnover. The quantity of butter manufactured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Wheat traffic
The wool received by rail during the last week at the three shipping depots—Dailing Habour, Newcastle, and Morpeth—amounted to 2240 bales, a decrease of 2769 bales as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Selecting Dairy Cattle
The British Board of Agriculture have issued a leaflet devoted to directions in the selection of milking dairy cattle. Special points urged to be considered in the…
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WE have been handed for publication the following circular from the Chief Inspector of Stock:—It has been noticed of late that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool & Produce Sales
THE Australian Mortgage. Land and Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An English Dairy Farm. Successful Enterprise
Twenty years ago (says a correspondent of the "Live Stock Journal"), farming in Essex, as it had been carried on in the good old days," began to be a synonymous…
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