Cows for Butter
None of the thoroughbred breeds of cows have the exclusive production of fine butter. What an known a common cows, if well selected and fed as they should be, will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1894
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Farm and Garden
The removing of the corn husks, as a means for increasing the crop, does not seem to be obtaining much favor. It was a very pretty theory, but had its beginning and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Trade
The National Wool Company of Australia have sent us their annual review of the trade during the season of 1893 94 It Bays:—" The rapidly Increasing production does not warrant…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Dairy
It may not be generally known that a new industry has been started in Singleton, N.S.W., in the concentrating of milk and that a large trade has already been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New South Wales Dairy Far Mer 'S Export Association
The following is the grader's report:-- The week ending March 17th again shows decreases in the quantity of batter prepared for export yet large supplies are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important to Farmers
Me[?]s John Danks and Son, Bourke street,Melbourne, the well-known pump makers and engineers are now supply Windmill Pumping Plant from [?]16…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—A light, loamy and easily wrought surface soil, resting upon clay, that has, of course, been broken up in the trenching, BO that it is easily penetrable…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →How to Farm Successfully in the Berrigan District. Second Prize Essay
The first step towards successful farming is taken by choosing a good farm. Pick a well drained block of loamy chocolate soil easily worked, and not too heavily timbered ;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office. Deniliquin, Friday Evening, March 23 1894
THE long looked for break in the weather [?] last and Deniliquin and its district have been visited with a glorious [?] of rain. It commenced on Monday [?] with 54 points. This was followed by 205…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Barbour at Moama. a Sensational Statement. Was the Pastoral Times Right?
Mr R. Barbour, one of the candidates for this district at the next general election, addressed a large meeting of the electors at Moama on Friday night last week. Alderman W. J. Martin occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. Blocking Land Legislation. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)
SIR,—On all sides it is admitted that, despite the large amount of relief afforded by recent gold discoveries, efficient land legislation must precede the restoration of industrial prosperity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Market. (Dalgety and Company Limited). Melbourne, March 23
WOOL—Our London office cable [?] as follows, under date of the [?] instant: “The wool sales closed firm, without [?] change. Out of the not quantity available for sale, [?] bales have been sold for home consumption. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Farms
The horse is an almost unknown animal in the interior of China, and his place is taken by the domesticated buffalo or water ox. This is rather a diminutive animal, as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm and Garden
The rotation of crops is an established principle in our agriculture; but a rotation without clover is a rotation without reason. Make that the basis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Hints
The testimony ac[?]umulates that it is better to feed milch co[?]s but twice per day, as it is alleged that [?]ell-fed cows can put in their time resting and rem[?]sticating their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden
Power eggs will be gathered if the hens are crowded. Fowls two years old are, as a rule, best for breeding purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sheep Fob the Farmer
At a recent meeting of the Lyndoch branch of the Agricultural Bureau, Mr. Barritt read the following paper on this subject :— Many about this neighborhood are small…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pastoral and Agricultural Intelligence
P[?]SING, where viotage operations are over, is now general though in many cases the vignerons have been delayed in picking by the unseasonal to rainfall. There have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kerosene for Sheep Ticks
Six lively sheep ticks will make the existence of a lamb perfectly miserable, and a dozen will ruin all hope of profit in lamb raising, however generous the feed. Sheep ticks…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm Field and Garden Culture of Mangolds. How to Grow a Successful Crop of These Valuable Roots
Farmers as well as dairymen were long ago convinced of the great value of root crops for feeding to stock. Here is a plan for growing mangolds, described…
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