Cattle Trade on the Richmond
THE breeding and sale of cattle on the Richmond are assuming large proportions, and scarcely a week passes but some large transactions take place and heavy drafts…
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Farming & the land, 1887
69 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 4
Maize as a Crop, &c
MR. ANGUS MACKAY, instructor in Agriculture, who passed through Coraki en route for Sydney, and whose important engagements in other places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Farms
THE following is abridged from a lecture delivered by Stephen Cureton, of California, to a Victorian audience :— Eighty acres of good land is fully a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Don't Leave the Farm
ONE of the indications of a fault in our education system is that it leads young men to think traffic there are easier and more respectable ways of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About Dairying
WE take the liberty of extracting the following information re the above from the Handbook on Dairy Factories,.Etc., by the Rev. Canon Bagot, L. D:, Kildare, kindly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tainted Butter
A CURIOUS experience concerning tainted butter is given in the following letter from Mr. J. Hamilton to the SOUTHLAND TIMES:—"I feel sorry to shock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poultry Farming In Australia
MR. Walter Hope, of Liverpool, who has been engaged by the Board of Techninical Education to lecture on "Poultry Farming in Australia," delivered the first of his series of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Strange Disease in Cattle
AN exhaustive report (says the Melbourne Aqc) has been furnished to the Minister of Agriculture by W. T. Kendall, veterinary surgeon, upon a disease which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poultry Farming
A LARGE audience attended at the Technical hall in Pitt-Street on the 11th instant, to hear Mr. Walter hope's fifth lecture on Poultry Farming. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming, and Farming
THE severe visitation which has cast a temporary gloom over the commercial outlook on the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, should teach agriculturists a very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tobacco as a Crop
ONE of our friend at Port Macquarie (H.S.W.) asks the following questions:—. Is Port Macquarie climate and soil suitable for tobacco culture? 2. Can…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About Dairying—No.3. (From Bagot's Handbook of Dairy Farming). Milk and Milking
22. How often should a cow be miked — Twice in the twenty hours, and care should be taken to milk regularly at the same time each day. It is often advisable to milk a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disease in the Maize Crops
MR ANGUS MACKAY, Instructor in Agriculture under the Board of Technical Education, reports to the secretary of the Board on the above subject as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About Dairying. (From Bagot's Handbook of Dairy Farming) COLORING BUTTER.—No. 6
55. Is it necessary to use artificial colouring?—The public taste, especially in London and other English towns, demands a highcoloured butter, which, except in the month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter WORKER—No. 7
59, What is a butter worker I—A machine to take the buttermilk out, to consolidate the butter, and to distribute the salt, SO as, to avoid touching the butter with the hand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Market Quotations. (From the Manager Clarence River and North-Coast Farmers' Association, Limited.) Sydney, Thursday, 6 p.m
Maise, 3s 9d per bushel and in good demand; Eggs, 1s 7d per dozen; Pigs, 4d per pound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ostrich Farming in N. Zealand
THE ostrich farm recently established in the Kaipara district by Mr. Nisson, of Otamates promises to yield excellent results. It will be remembered that out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The northern Star. Saturday, April 30, 1887 Stray Cattle
JUDGING by the number of complaints to hand, as to the dinger to life and limb arising from the numbers of cattle laying about the streets and verandahs of this township, after dark, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Aorthern Star. Wednesday, May 4, 1887. Municipal Matters. Stray Cattle
IN reference to the remarks in our lsat issue, as to the unisance caused by the numbers of cattle and horse depasturing in the streets, we are informed that the Inspeotor of Nuisances, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Tariff and Dairying Industry
MR. FRANCIS M'MAHON, J.P., an Ulladulla district resident, gives utterance to some bed-rock truths in the following letter to the Ulladulla aud Milton…
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