Dairying as a Science
BEFORE the dairyman can be successful in either branch he must draw the line between the breeds that exceed in yields of milk and those that give milk rich in…
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Farming & the land, 1887
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A Government Farm that Pays its Way
A HINT as to how a Government experimental farm might be made to pay could well be taken from the following paragraph, from the Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania…
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THE Church Consul reporting on the sugar trade of Java says that the yield of 1884 was an unusually abundany one, owing to the exceptionally fine weather which prevdiled,…
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THE following are a few reasons why the dairymen of Illawarra should go in for the establishment of dairy factories:— Because Illawarra, having obtained a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Factory Butter. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR—A word or two from me in reference to cream separators and butter-factories might prove of benefit to the farmers of Illawarra. With regard to the working of cream…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dehorning Cattle
IT appears that the practice of dehorning cattle is becoming common in the United States. A correspondent of the New England Farmer sends the following…
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PROVIDENCE helps those, who Helps, themselves, and lately Providence, in the shape of a beneficent public, has been most loudly invoked to help those who,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rotation in Crops
No single crop removes from the soil all the fertilising material applied in the manure while all crops remove the same in different proportions. There have been…
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A STRANGE disease has appeared amongst some cattle in the Warwick district, Queensland. A number of cattle purchased in the Dalby district passed…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Protestant Hall, Wollongbar, on Saturday last, when by invitation some 20 gentlemen met, to discuss the desirability of at once forming a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Depot for Farm Produce
ONE of the orders of the day at last week's sitting of the Assembly was the consideration by Committee of the Whole of an "address to the Governor, praying…
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PROFESSOR G. H. Whitcher, Superintendent of the New Hampshire State Agricultural College at Hanover, sends us the subjoined account of an experiment in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming Prospects
As it is dangerous to have all our eggs in the sugar basket, it appears a pity that our farmers do not cultivate and develops their lands a little more than they do at present,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Curious Disease in Cattle
FRANK REILLY, in charge of a mob of fat cattle, from Cloncurry and Strathfield, bound for Bourke, informs us (WINTON HERALD) that when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Largest Farm in the World
IN the extreme south-west corner of Louisiana lies the largest producing farm in the world. It runs 100 miles north and south, and miles east and west, and is…
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COMBINATION is illustrated as among the important means of increasing the revenue of the farm, and it is held that when each part is well done too many…
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PURSUANT to advertisement a meeting was held at Mr. Dourough's Mill, Mount Pleasant, on Saturday last, for the purpose of taking the preliminary steps towards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Star. Wednesday, July 27, 1887. Co-operative Farming
As stated by the speakers at the meeting for the establishment of a Butter Factory at Gooaelabah, on Saturday last, it is very evident that if our farmera wish to succeed and…
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PARTICULARS are given in another column of the proposed subdivision of the Mildura property by the Chaffey Brothers, and its allotment into small areas for fruit-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Food for Dairy Cows
MR. BARHAM, speaking on dairy farming at Tunbridge Wells (England), lately cautioned farmers against giving turnips to dairy cows. Nevertheless, if they…
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