Mixed Farming v. Wheat Growing
MIXED farming, by which we mean agriculture combined with stock-keeping, is gradually being adopted, although the change is taking place at…
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Grass Fed Sheep
What is a grass-fed sheep? is a question that has often been asked by intending competitors in the gram-fed daises at our leading shows. Truly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society. to the Editor of the Recorder
SIR,—I notice by your last issue that a public meeting is to be held on Wednesday evening for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. The Song of the Farmer's Wife
Monday is for washing. Tuesday is for ironing. Wednesday is for mending and putting clothes away;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Suggestions
IN the dairy it will not do to stop short of the highest degree of perfection that anybody has reached. Anything lower than that means inferior products and diminished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Stud Sheep Sales
Though some important sales of stud sheep have recently been effected in a comparatively quiet way in Sydney of late, the great festival of the Australasian flock masters may be said…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Wool and Stock Reports
MESSRS PITT, SON & BADGERY report under date July 10:—14,000 sheep were penned to day, competition was brisk and the market firm; good sheep especially selling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer. Make an Asparagus Bed
Asparagus is as easily raised as anything that grows in the garden, and yet it is comparatively rare to find it on a farmer's table. The reason may be that so much nonsense…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Dots
FRESH winter made butter is what the market is demanding more and more. MAKE the herd better ovary year. It can be done. We have not reached perfection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hume Farmers' Union
The quarterly meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union took place on Saturday last at Burrumbuttock, Mr. D. Reid, J.P. in the chair. On the minutes of the previous meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Farm, Station, and Garden. Lucerne Growing at Collendina
To me the most surprising fact connected with the lucerne growing at Collendina is the small quantity of seed sown in the fields laid down last year. That 2£lb. of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The European Crops. London, July 7
The heavy rains and cold nights are injuring the crops throughout E[?]rope. Much a[?]xiety is felt with regard to the harvest prospects…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Beniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The Ordinary monthly meeting of the Council of the Deniliquin Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held at the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday last. Mr J, S. Brain occupied the chair; and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock Report. Pastoral [?] OFFICES. Deniliquin, Friday, July 11, [?]
[?] point of [?] fell during the week and the roods are again in a [?] When there is any [?] the mud six indies deep. and there are patches of from a few a [?] to a [?] acres of water all over the plains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited) Melbourne, July 9
WOOL.—The news from London is of a more reassuring Character. Our latest cable reads as follows :—“ Wool market firm prices hardening. Merinos (in general) show a rise of [?] per lb, but coarse coarse crosebreas show a decline of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Pastoral, and Agricultural, and Horticultural Societies. Public Meeting
There was a good attendants at the public meeting held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening last. The business was "to consider the advisability of forming a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Dots
FRESH winter made butter is whit the market is demanding more and more. MAKE the herd better ovary year. It can be done. We have not reached perfection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer. Make an Asparagus Bed
Asparagus is an easily raised as anything that grows in the garden, and yet it is comparatively rare to find it on a farmer's table. The reason may be that so much nonsense…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
THE weather appears to have cleared again. With the exception of a shower of rain on Monday evening, when five points were recorded, the week has been fine, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cheesy Taste in Butter
The cheesy taste in butter is due to the imperfect cleansing of the butter from the butter milk. This cannot be done completely by the common method of churning. in…
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