Breeding Dairy Cattle
One thing always advisable to consider when men start out buying pure-bred cattle (writes H[?]ad's Dairyman) is that the knowledge, skill, and character…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1907
775 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 38 of 39
The Dairy. Siberian Butter
Ciberian butter, in the opinion of the "Grocer," London, promises o exercise more influence on the London butter market to the future than in the past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jersey Butter Tests
I have before me (says a writer In the "Mark Lane Express") the records of some American Jersey tests under the auspices of the American Jersey Cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ophthalmia In Sheep
Mr R. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experiment Farm, New South Wales, reports in the November rumber of the "Agricultural Gazette" of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weighing Pigs and Sheep
It is often very desirable to weigh pigs or lambs to see whether or not they are making profitable gains. For the farmer who has no platform scale, an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Dairy. Original Article? [Air Rights Reserved.] Hardy Perennials
The best of all plants for the flower garden are hardy perennials. The majority of them arc very easy to grow, and possess the additional and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. Influence of Seed Selection
How necessary it is for a farmer to exercise care in the selection of the seed that he commits to the ground is being increasingly demonstrated — the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairy Bull
The selection of a dairy bull is a difficult matter. For the dairy herd one must have a bull that can produce milkers, if he is to really improve the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Washing Dairy Utensils
In America lime water is largely used Instead of soda for washing dairy utensils. Prof. Farrington says:— The creameries, which years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy. Operating the Home Separator
The points of importance in the proper order in successfully operating a horse separator are as follow:— First.—The speed of the separator…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmyard Manure and Fertility
During the recent European International Agricultural Congress, Professor Steklosa read an interesting paper on the subject of Farm Manure and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Anthrax Bacillns
Some curious facts have been observed, says "Medical Notes and Queries," in the varying powers of resistance to the anthrax bacillus, among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Troubles. Rabbits and Fire
Uncertain seasons are bad enough, but combined with other calamities in the way of those devastators, rabbits and fire, farmers would soon find their labours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Concrete on the Farm. Mixing the Concrete
To the uninitiated the word concrete implies a heap of road metal mixed with sand and time or cement. Visions of men wheeling Narrows of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Market Reports. Wool Report
Hill, Clark and Co. report:--We submitted a catalogue of 2333 bales, and cleared privately and at auction 1853 bales. The wools were mainly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep Eat Grasshoppers
IT may not be generally known (says the Young CHRONICLE) that sheep make a hearty meal of grasshoppers. At least, such is the experience of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Wheat Market
MESSRS. HARRISON, JONES & DELVIN report:—The wheat market is dull and lifeless, with but very little business doing. Although, so far as our…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Wool Industry
"MERINO" writes urging the appointment of a wool expert in connection with the new Department of Agriculture. Our wool industry, he says…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney-Brisbane Wool Sales. the Fall in Wool Values
Mr. H. C. McCulloch writes:—Mr Francis bacon's recent letters, and your own sub-leader of the 9th inst., have undoubtedly been the means of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Share Farming
ON Iandra Estate, near Grenfell, there are 20,300 acres under crop, of which about 4000 have been out for hay. The wheat is regular, heavy-headed…
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