What Breed Pays the Farmer
Nothing dazzles and bewilders the farmer more than the long figures attained by breeders of racing colts. The tendency is often to unhinge the well-formed plans…
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Farming & the land, 1881
68 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 4
Correspondence. the Butter Question. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—I am impelled to again address the dairymen of this and surrounding districts through the Independent by a firm conviction of the momentous importance of the…
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A WRITER in the Rural New York gives the following useful advise upon the breeding of dairy cattle:—"The dairy cow is an artificial production. As such she is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming in the West of Ireland
THE special correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald in a recent communication from Ireland says:—"There is not, it is true, so much trouble on the labourer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Live Stock for the Farm
THE breeding of live stock, though carried on more or less upon every farm, is in five cases out of six, hap-hazard work, and no care is taken to obtain the most profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Question. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—Since my last letter on the above subject, in which I endeavoured to show the dairymen of this, and the adjacent districts, the pecuniary advantages they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yankee Scientists Eclipsed; or, Extracts from O. Brown's Dairy
Statements founded on scientific facts, and borns out by the experiences of past ages, must necessarily carry a considerable weight with them; that is to say, if we do not wilfully blind ourselves to…
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A man who resides in the suburbs of Oil City, recently purchased some oleomar garine. He didn't know until he had eaten it. That made him mad. Of course it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Dymcck on Wingecarribee and the Butter Company
At a public dinner given to Mr. John Haurahan. J.P. at Burrawang, a few days ago, Mr. D. L. Dymock said it afforded him great pleasure to be there to do honor to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Question. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—Extreme perversity for misrepresentation actually seems natural to some persons, and I am afraid it is exemplified by those gentlemen of Sussex-street, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Trade
Writing to the 'Kiama Independent' regarding the Co-operative Butter Company, Mr. lohn Taylor says :—A central cold room is required ; and there is not more than time to provide it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farming in Illwarra and Elsewhere
The following is a paper read before the Otage Agricultural and Pastoral Association, a few weeks ago, by Mr. Thomas Brydone, Inspector of the New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Steamer. ("To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—It is to be hoped that the I.S.N. Company will make a further arrangement in connection with the night steamer they intend to run every Tuesday from this district after the beginning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Buying
It is an old, but true, saying amongst graziers, in the country that "half the battle in grazing is in buying in"—which means that success depends as much upon judgment in the selection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improved Dairying Processes
The "Royal" show at Derby presented few items of interest for Australians. Probably the most useful part of the implement and machinery display would be the working dairy,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Agricultural Chemist on Dairying
At the recent show of the Royal Agricultural Society at Derby, Dr. Voelcker, the celebrated agricultural chemist, delivered, by request, a lecture on "Dairying," of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy Factory System
The movements of Mr. Brydone and Mr. Bowron in New Zealand are finding support in other quarters. The subject of dairying on the factory system has been treated very fully by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Trade
[WE reprint from Tuesday's Illawarra Mercury the following communication addressed to the editor by the vice-chair-man of the co-operative company.]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Branding Butter Kegs. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—It has always been a matter of loss to shippers of butter from the coast districts (and I suppose elsewhere) in the kegs going astray, principally, I believe, from their being branded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. Packing Butter for Market
THE following article by Dr. De Kleuze appeared in a recent number of the Agricultural Gazette:—There are different methods of packing the butter for market,…
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