Continuous Butter Tests. Factory Awards
North Coast (Byron Bay No. 1), 740 points, 1; Kyogle Co-operative, 737,2; Alstonville Co-operative, 736,3; and North Coast, No. 4, 728, 4…
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Farming & the land, 1908
1,362 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 69
Another Rise in Butter
The Sussex-street butter merchants decided upon another rise of 4/ per owt., to come into force on Monday. Superfine will be 118s, and other grades proportinately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Breeding in Germany
An American consular report states that attention is being given to [?]attle breeding by the several States forming the German Empire. In Bavaria alone…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Wool Market
Schute, Bell, and Co. report: It has been decided to hold auction sales in this centre on the 6th and 7th prox, when it is anticipated that about 7000 bales in all will be catalogued. The most that can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Information Invited From Wheat-growers
The Wheat Experimentalist of the Agriculture Department is desirous of obtaining some definite data as to the minimum amount of rain required in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. Liquid Manure
An American agricultural paper Writes:—"Liquid manure is found to contain a great deal of nitrogen, a little potash, and generally no phosphoric acid at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sale of a Farm
Mr. W. S. Wall, land and estate agent reports having sold by private treaty, on account of Mr. Geo. Sternbeck, a farm at Dagworth, containing 25½ acres, to Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
The State Department of Lands is pushing forward as rapidly as possible with the work of surveying 22 blocks of land on the Dorrigo. These areas will be made available for conditional…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Dairy Cow
The cow utilises her food either for the elaboration of milk or the taking on of flesh (says a dairyman in the "Prairie Farmer"), and she yields nothing in either direction except by food taken…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dairy Conference
The butter factory managers are in a position to do much to help on the progress of one of our most important primary industries, an industry which is reckoned to employ about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farmers for West Australia
A steady stream, exceeding last year's average, of stringently-selected agriculturists is preceding, by assisted passages, to West Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Lectures
Mr. W. Brown. M.L.A. for Durham, has received' the following from the Department of Agriculture:—"Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 31st ultimo, presenting a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colour in Butter
Butter markers are all agreed that in estimating the general quality and saleability of butter the colour is a point of very definite importance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federation Wheat
WE (Murrarundi Times) have been shown a splendid sample of this variety of wheat grown by Mr. Josh. Upton, of Willow Tree, who has now tried it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm and Dairy Dairy Utensils
When cleaning dairy utensns always[?] them first with cold water if hot water is used the sticky albumen coagulates on the sides and bottoms of the tins and is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural Problems. Feding in the Dairy
The question or recding is of much moment to the farmer, for upon its improper managements lies much of the financialioss so common in dairies The Unthinking man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leguminous Crops
From an aconmic or practical standpoint the legume rank second only to the grass family to which belong all our cereal grains (says professor M'Carthy in the "American…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Wool Market
Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—Interest in wool circles is mainly concentrated upon the auction sales to be held in Sydney this week. A general belief appears to pervade the trade that no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Arrivals
[?] of wool number 318,000 [?] 12,000 have been forwarded direct to [?] and with those left over [?] series, 263,000 are available for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Cattle Sale
To-morrow, at Foster's Yards, Messrs H. Bailey and Son hold a special cattle sale, comprising 1200 head of store cattle, consisting of well-bred bullocks,…
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