The Butter Market
Prescott, Limited, report:—The price of choicest Butter was reduced to 99/ on Wednesday, but outside local business there has not been much sale for large parcels The quality of this…
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Farming & the land, 1911
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Sydney Wool Market
Dalgety & Co,, Ltd., wool salesmen, Sydney, report:—A litlte clearing-up business has been transacted in the Sydney wool market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Contagious Abortion
The term abortion is applied to the premature birth of the offspring before full term. It is sometimes known as "slinking" "casting," or "Losing" the calf. Abortion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool and Wheat
The wool received for the season at the Darling Harbour, Morpeth, and Newcastle depots amounts to 732,318 bales, an increase of 36. 318 bales. as compared with the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loose Teeth in Cattle
This often results from a debilitating disease or poor condition. [?] Good nourishing feed. Give the following powder mixed with a pint of cold water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at a Dairy Farm
Early on Monday morning a fire occurred at a dairy farm on the Ascot Estate, about half a mile from Muswellrook on the road to Kayuga. The property belongs to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Manuring Grass Land
The best. natural manure for grass land (says the Victorian "Journal of Agriculture") is dung or farmyard manure, given either in the form of a special application in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Government Farm
is now stilted on good authority that the Government has decided to purchase 1000 acres of Mr. Thos. Blunt's Overton Estate for the purpose of establishing an experimental…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Every Dairyman's Queries
How many pounds of milk has each cow in your herd given this year? What has been the average test of each one? Have you records which will give this data? If, not, how can you…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Market
Dalgety and Company, Lid., report:—Wool sales were held at Hobart on Wednesday last, when 12,000 bales were offered to a large attendance of buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Dairy Notes, Co-operation
Addressing himself to the question of co-opeation at, a recent meeting of the Meadows branch of the South Australian Farmers' BureauMr. Jacka said:—"That…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Surveying. a Handy Instrument
The great drawback (writes Mr G. H. Johnston, in the New South Wales "Agricultural Gazette") to surveying on the farm up to the present has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Land and Pastoral Companies
The "Economist" reprints the speech of Mr. David Murray, chairman of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, in which he dealt trenchantly with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Wheat King" Wishes to Die Poor
Since his retirement from active business pursuits, Mr. James Patten, the ex "Wheat King," has (the Chicago correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states), devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Increase Profits on the Dairy Farm
The advantage of the "L-K-G" Milking Machine over the hand system is exactly what anyone acquained with any kind of machinery would expect. With the same number of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm & Dairy. the Hand Separator
The hand separator, working under favourable conditions, does not leave over one twentieth of a pound of butter fat in [?] pf skim milk. The gravity…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Surveying. a Handy Instrument
The great drawback (writes Mr. G. H. Johnston, in the New South Wales "Agricultural Gazette") to surveying on the farm up to the present has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destructive Cyclone. Great Damage to Crops
The whole of the west side of Barmedman was devastated by a severe cyclone yesterday. Huge hailstones fell in the streets. Several residents were bruised. Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm Foal
One of the most trying periods in the foal's development is weaning the voungster from the milk of its dam. The process should be accomplished, if possible,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wounds on Farm Animals
Mr. George H. Glover, D.V.M., in the New South Wales "Journal of Agriculture" writes:— Animals of the farm are continually being…
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