Fitting Cattle for Show
On visiting a number of shows recently I have been much struck with the lack of preparation, ring manners, and general conditions of…
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Farming & the land, 1921
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Fashioning Horns of Stud Cattle
The practice of training the horns of stud or show cattle is in some cases apt to become a vice, writes the Herdmaster of the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural S Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervises of the Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly of the experience of the Department No. 532…
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THE Directors of the Hastings District Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., Port Macquarie, met at the factory office on Tuesday, there being present—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Land Rotation of Crops
Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture in a review last week of the Department's activities said that fallowing and rotation of crops, as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →M.R. Co-op. Dairy Co. Returns for June, 1921
Suppliers to the above company were paid 14½ for choicest commercial butter during June, and 14 .for second-class. The gross turnover was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Factories' Association
A well-attended meeting of directors of local factories, and managers and secretaries, was held in the Belmore Hail, Taree, on Thursday last, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Flood on Macleay. Biggest Since 1893. Kempsey Inundated. Buildings Swept Away. Property Destroyed. Cattle and Stock Drowned. Thrilling Rescue Stories
The 1921 flood will be long rem embered on the Macleay. Kempsey was inundated in many parte and thousands of acres on the lower river were flooded. The damage to property will run into tens of thousands. So far no loss of human live is reported, but many hundreds of stock are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Current Topics Teaching Reading. Butter Factories Association
A very successful meeting was held at Taree on Thursday, for the purpose of establishing a Factories' Association. Twelve Butter Culcairn, Saturday.—George E. Jones, author of the Jones System of teaching reading addressed about 30 teachers from the schools…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Pool. Prices and London Sales
The Queensland New South Wales butter pool committee, sitting in Sydney last week--the following members being in attendance: Messrs. P. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Of Interest to Dairy Farmers. Meeting to Form Factories' Association
A meeting was held in the Beimore Hall, Tarce, on Thursday, 21st July, 1921, at 11 a.m. The object of the meeting was to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How to Fall in Dairying
Sometimes the best way to show how to do a thing is to tell how it should not be done. Here are some rules on how not to succeed with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Further Flood News. How Lower River Fared. Remarkable Scenes. Raging Torrents Across Farms. Lower River News. Smithtown
There was three feet of water in the street at Smithtown. The river broke over its banks at Seven Oaks on Saturday morning and at a later stage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to the Editor. Farmers and Settlers Re "Recruit to Progressives."
Sir,--It was with much pleasure read a letter in your esteemed paper on this subject, written by Mr. H. D. Morton, our old member, who was well tested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sheep Cockie's Return
"IT'S a lovely game this sheep shearing," said a man who was in Gundagai last week. "I shore my sheep last September—1000 of them—and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying. Good Butter Depends on Good Cream. And Good Cream Depends Primarily on Cleanliness
Where the farmer keeps his eream on the farm for any length of time, say, over twenty-four hours in the summer (and most of them do this), he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land
These Notes are [?] week, under the [?] of [?] and [?] No. 533…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Outlook. to the Editor Port Macquarie News
SIR,—Much has been written and a good deal more has been said regarding future butter prospects. Based on the knowledge of decreased world production of foodstuffs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat in the West. An Experiment in Mulching
A mulching experiment of Interest to wheat-growers In the west has been conducted by the Department of Agriculture at Nyfigan Experiment Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gales and Floods. Much Damage on North Coast. Farmers' Heavy Losses
THE latter months of last year and the first seven months of this have been notable for a succession of heavy rainfalls, accompanied in many…
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