Tamworth Cattle Sale
As advertised elsewhere in this issue Messrs. A. L. Stewart and Co., auctioneers, Tamworth, will be holding a special cattle sale in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid North Coast · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1938
969 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 8 of 49
Dehorning of Dairy Cattle. Treatment of the Calf
Horns of dairy cattle serve no useful purpose, and are a source of much danger and annoyance. Only in the case of high-class animals that are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Cattle. Purebreds Under Test. Results for January. Some Exceptional Yields
No fewer than 20 of the 56 privately owned purebred cows which completed a 273 days' lactation lest during January produced more than 400 1bs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter at Newcastle Show. Gloucester Wins Continuous Grading
At the Newcastle Show this week the Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. won the first prize for the continuous grading class for butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hard Work Goes A-begging. Candid Bowraville Farmer
Mr. H. D. Walters of Bowraville, in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of February 9th, wrote thus:— "Sir,—for the past four months I…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Dairying Hopeless." The Margarine Menace
"I consider that dairying is hopeless until we block margarine from, being produced," said Mr. W. C. Parkes at the annual meeting of the Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Winter Dairying Importance of Continuity of Supply
If the dairy industry is to progress, greater effort must be made to obtain an even output throughout the year. That such continuity…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Water Supply
The grenish or red scum which sometimes occurs in the water supply is due to the presence of minuate forms of plant life (algae)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying Notes Feeding of Dairy Cows
If dairy cows are to be profitable they must be adequately fed--adequately, that is, not merely in the sense of bulk but in relation to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wingham Stock Sales Market Firm for Good Cattle
Paterson, Eastern and Co., report a heavy yarding of fat cattle at Thursday's stock sales and despite lower market in Sydney prices were firm at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bubrs in Wool. Extracted by Freezing
If a claim made in a paragraph in "Popular Mechanics" is justified, burrs and other vegetable matter and grease are literally frozen out of wool by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →H. D. Dairy Company
January pay was fixed at 10¾d and 9¾d per lb respccitvcly for choicest and second-grade butter. It was decided to pay a bonus of ¾d per lb on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers or Timber—which?
Mr. F. A. Fitzpatrick has asked us to print the following reply to Mr. Machin's letter:—In our issue of Friday last there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work Goes A-begging Candid Bowraville Farmer
Mr. H. D. Walters, of Bowraville, in the "Sydney Morning Herald", wrote thus:—For the past four months I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sudan Grass Poisoning. Danger to Cattle
On account of instances which have recently been reported of cattle having been poisoned as the result of grazing on Sudan grass, and of certain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Man From the Gulf (All Rights Reserved). Chapter Twenty-three the Raid on the Cattle
The stage was set for the dramatic climax to the work of Barney Summers. Patterson had entered into the spirit of the chase. He had risked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAIRYING. Encouragement of Clovers. In Coastal Pastures
The most outstanding plant for sowing in coastal districts, and especially amongst paspalum, is a persistent strain of certified seed of white clove…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Claim for Half Value of Farm Produce
C. T. Atkins proceeded against A. T. Gordon, of Failford, for an amount of £18 10s 3d, representing the half value of crops, cream, stock, &…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wingham Junior Farmers' Club
A Tuck Shop, in aid of the Wingham Junior Farmers', was conducted at the Rural School on Thursday, 24th February, by Mesdames…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Industry. "Whole Economic Position." P.p.u. General President at Grafton
Mr. M. P. Dunlop, M.L.C., General President of the P.P.U., told the quarterly meeting of the Clarence District Producers' Union at Grafton…
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