Sydney Butter Market
THIS market is completely glutted, consequent on the suspension of shipments to foreign markets. Advices from London report a glut of colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1888
81 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 5
C. and N. C. Farmers' Association
THE usual monthly meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Tuesday. The Manager's report for February gave the consignments for that month as 656 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying in New Zealand
THE colony of New Zealand is now fully awake as to the importance of the dairy industry and to the benefit to be derived from the export of such products. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Why Children Dislike Farm Life
IN the first place, they are not brought up to love the country, they are early accustomed to hear both father and mother grumble about the hardships of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Influence of the Sire on Dairy Cows
IN breeding a herd more depends upon the selection of a sire than upon anything else. The male selected should not only possess individual merit of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Illawarra Dairy Cattle
IN his pamphlet, " Dairying in Australasia,". 'Mr. James P. Dowling, agricultural editor of the SYDNEY MAIL, writing of the South Coast breed of cattle, makes the following remarks:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protection to Farmers
THIS is what the ALTA CALIFORNIA says of protection to farmers:—"The New York TRIBUNE'S letters from 2000 farmers, asking for a protective tariff on their products,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farmers and Protection. To the Editor of the " Northern Star."
SIR,— The low price of butter and cheese of late has no doubt sorely exercised the minds of our dairy farmers, and made them think that a protective policy would be to their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sugar Crop in Queensland
REPORTS from [?] regard to the sugar crop state that the cane is backward, and crushing will not be begun until about 1st June. The average yield…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Model Farm
WITHIN a quarter of an hours drive from the post-office, Grafton, there is open for inspection a farm which might well be accepted as a model for the model farms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Apples for Making Butter
J. S. TIBBITS in the Salinas INDEX, has the following to say concerning feeding apples to cows:-"It may not be generally known that apples are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Making Good Butter
IN a recent paper on this subject Mr. George Barbara remarked as follows:— In making a pound of butter you take just the same constituents from your land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Profits of American Farmers
A CONTROVERSY has been waged between Mr. Edward Atkinson and Sir Morton Frewen, Mr. Bear, and others in England on the profit of American farmers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Alleged Female Cattle Stealer
A "DASHING" woman was charged with cattle-stealing at Invereargill (N.Z.) The evidence showed that a settler at Forest Hill, named Boss, whose land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melons as Food for Cattle
THE melon has been frequently recommended as food for cattle, coming in, as it does, in the end of summer und beginning of autumn, when the weather is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Secret of Good Farming
GIVE a good farmer even a poor farm, and he will gradually improve it, while it poor farmer would starve to death. The fault is the whole secret lies in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Solls. How Crops Fail; and How Improved
IT is from the using up of these substancesthe phosphates., especially— that wheat, if' grown during successive years, fails, even on rich land, to yield the heavy crops got at first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cost of Protection to the Victorian Farmer
MR. EDWARD PULSFORD, Secretary of the Freetrade Association writes to the S. M. HERALD of Friday last as follows:—The HERALD is doing good service to our farmers by pointing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queensland Farmer
THE farmer doubtless is inclined to grumble at the world's competition which he is now engaged in, and to say, "What is the use of settling upon the land. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jersey Cattle
A SHORT sketch of the successful career of a herd of Jersey cows is given in one of the numbers of the 'Field' to hand by the last English mail. Given a good selection of…
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