The Real Value of Crop Rotation
"A BARE soil, writes Mr. G. W. McCluer in the "American Agriculturist," must sooner or later become a barren soil, even without the removal of crops, This comes…
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Farming & the land, 1899
319 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 11 of 16
Tick Triumphant. Dairying Cruelled at Bundabreg
How terribly the ticks have slaughtered the dairying interests at Bundaberg can better be imagined than described (writes a correspondent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As Others See Us. the Illawarra District. Old and New Methods in the Dairying Industry
The district of Illawarra comprises a strip of country not more than four or five miles wide in any place, which lies between the coast range of mountains…
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MESSRS. W WEDDELL AND Co of London have issued their report of the past season. After mentioning the increase of 2000 tons to imports over those of previous year,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Red Polled Cattle
This might be described as an improved brood of English stock, and though the great antiquity claimed for it by its ablest admirers promises to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Pleuro at Bega
Pleuro-pudumonia has made its appearance amongst the dairy cattle of the Bega district. It is supposed to have been introduced by some Queensland cattle that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Illawarra District the Dairying Industry
THE district of Illawarra comprises a strip of country not more than four or five miles wide in any place, which lies between the coast range of mountains and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Notes. The Improvement of New South Wales Stock. Part Vi. the Shorthorns
This breed is the most remarkable and most noted of the whole bevine race. Wherever one travels they cannot get away from the English Shorthorn. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company. Feeling Against Pasteurisation
THE half-yearly meeting of the Berrima. District Farm and Daily Company, Ltd., was held in the Robertson School of arts on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Thomas Leery,…
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At a meeting of the Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company strong opposition was shown to a proposal to pasteurise the milk at the factories, and a motion in favor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Controlling the Sydney Butter Market
DURING the past twelve months-there have been several instances showing the absolute necessity of farmers having a definite voice in controlling butter prices. The…
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In the Assembly on Tuesday the Minister for Mines, in answer to Mr. Haynes, said: In August, 1897, 25 head of cattle were purchased for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Market Necessity for Co-operative Control
DURING the past twelve months there have been several instances showing the absolute necessity of farmers have a definite The following paragraphs, extracted from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Stock and Tuberculosis
IN the Assembly on Tuesday last the Minis or for Mines in answer to Mr. Haynes, said: In August, 1897, 25 head of cattle were purchased for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. The Improvement of New South Wales Stock
At the milking trials under the auspices of the worthy institution, the British Dairy Farmers' Association, held in 1897, there were entered twenty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmers' Co-Operative Co. and the Berry Factory. Meeting of Dairymen at Nowra Addresses by Messrs. Dymock, Meares and Fairbairn. the Position of the Company Explained. Is Pasteurisation an Advantage?—a Two-sided Question. Some Side Lights on the Matter of That Half Penny. Those "Sourrilous" Newspaper Articles Condemned. Co-operation Not Dead—but Gaining Strength. Need of Unity to Hold the Market
ON Saturday afternoon last, despite the very unfavourable state of the weather, about sixty farmers representative of the Shoalhaven district assembled in the Nowra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence the Butter Market. to the Editor
SIR,—Ever since the market advanced from 10d we have met with considerable opposition to our views of Sydney butter prices. On the 24th of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The B[?]tter Trade the Farmers' Co-operative Company and the Berry Central Factory. Messrs. Meares, Dymook & F[?] in Nowr
A MEETING of dairy farmers, convened by the Farmers' Co operative Company, was held at the School of Arts, Nowra, on Saturday afternoon last for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Market. (To the Editor.)
SIR,—Ever since the market advanced from 10d we have met with considerable opposition to our views of Sydney butter prices. On the 24th of last month we…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney Butter Market. a Fall in Prices
BUTTER sold well in Sussex-street on Monday at a fall of 2d per lb; some sellers, however; only reported a reduction of 1d. The reduction in the…
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