How Good Cattle Pay
SOME people say Show cattle don't pay but from the handsome return Mr. J. Parrish of Newrybar, received for the month of April it is evident they are very profitable. Mr. Parrish, for the month of…
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Farming & the land, 1902
675 stories in New England's papers · page 13 of 34
Price of Butter. SYDNEY, Monday Night
THE price of butter has further advanced. Creamery is now quoted at Is. 4½d., and other grades have increased in proportion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Weather Forecast. For Farmer's and Gardener's of New South Wales: From Saturday May 24th to Saturday 31st. of May
Between 24th and 27th.—Variable weather, times of cloudy, capricious cold rain of squally nature in different places over the highlands and coastal districts; likely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer's Friend. (To the Editor of the Argus.)
Sir,—Mr. McIlveen is posing as the friend of the farmer. At the beginning of the wheat season he was about the first to travel round the district…
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TELEPHONES are apparently coming into use for the diffusion of news in Western America. Most of the farmers, it appears, possess instruments, and every evening the central operator rings up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Price of Butter. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
BUTTER advanced to-day in price ½d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying Industry
GRADUALLY it is dawing on the majority of farmers in certain parts of this State that dairy farming is far…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. Protecting Fowls From Vermin
A POULTRY brooder remarks that he had groat trouble with vermin infesting the fowl houses (common to all brooders), so that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General News. Sale of Sheep
ON Wednesday next, at 2 o'clock, J. H. Jurd & Co. will auction about 300 sheep. The Weather. ANOTHER dry week has to be recorded, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm, Dairy, and Station. A New Sheep Fodder
THE value of the bettle-tree as fodder for stock during, times, of drought has been brought under the notice of the Queensland Agricultural Department by Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry v. Cattle
THE common want shows the need for studying the fattening of poultry more than is now the case. It is not big bones that are required, but fowls with plenty of juicy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The 300lb Butter Cow
THE 300lb cow is no myth, though many people are very sceptical concerning the ability of any cow to produce that much butter in a year. Neither is she necessarily…
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AMONGST domestic animals the sheep is the must useful to man. In the British Isles alone there are 29,000,000 sheep. The world's total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glen Innes Co-operative Butter Factory
THE second annual meeting of the above company was held in the Council Chambers on Saturday last. Mr. J. F. Chaffey presided, and Messrs. Kearsey, Josephson,…
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THE Directors of the Glen Innes Co-operative Butter Company are to be congratulated on the very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Markets. WOOL
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—"There is no change to report in the local market, which continues very firm and active. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Nature of Plants
VEGETABLES differ from minerals in being orgadized possessed of a degree of life, and capable of taking into their systems…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Industry
At a conference of the Dairy Farmets Union yesterday, the principle of State grading of butter was approved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sales of Wool
MR. C. M'L. Marsh las kindly furnished tie with the particulars of sales of New England wools for the past season as follows:— G. H. Cox (Mudgee): Highest price 12 1/4d; 190…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Butter to the Acre
IT may be argued that dairying on a commercial scale is really a new industry in Australia, and, therefore it is unfair to expect that the average production of the herds…
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