Stray Cattle
Now that the new Council has act its house in order, and is progressing favorably, it may be as well to remind members, thereof, that some time since it was proposed to adopt…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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Flax as a Seed Crop
THE rapidly extending use of cream separator, and the necessity for some substitute for the abstracted cream being added when the milk is fed to calves, opens the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Co-operative Dairying
In referring to the dairy factories of New South Wales, the Australasian makes the following remarks— The factories are purely cooperative The supplier does not receive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rents of Pastoral Holdings
SOME important questions were asked in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday by Mr. Kelly, member for the Bogan, on the subject of the rents of pastoral…
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JIMMY THOMPSON, a chinaman, was recently summoned in the Newtown Police Court, for having cruelly ill-treated four bullocks. Senior-constable M'Cole stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Touch or Handling of Cattle
IN judging cattle the touch as well as the eye is brought into request, and expect in regard to certain points of conformation and colour, we are by no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Change of Crops
ALREADY the farmers of Illionis and other Western States, says the Prairie Farmer, are finding out the great advantage of a systematic rotation of crops,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prospecte of the Sugar Crop
UNTIL the present time, this year, we have not furnished any return of the area of land now under "cane and to be manipulated during the coming crushing, but we hasten to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Protection Affects Farmers
WE quote from President Cleveland's address to Congress the following remarks on farmers and protection:— "The farmer and agriculturist who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Market Reports. Sydney, Thursday, 6 P.m. (From the Manager of the C. R. and N. C. Farmers' Association.)
Maize, 2s 8d to 2s 9d and in good demand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Feed for Dairy Cows
GREEN and succulent food is the basic for milk cows, but the succulence of food should not be in excess. Food containing more than about 70 per cent of water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenant Farming
IT is common to speak of the farmers of the United States as the owners, of the land they cultivate, and a large proportion of them are in the position indicated. Of late, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Milk Flavored
IF more cream or butter is obtained by rapid cooling, we (U. S. DAIRYMAN) think it is because more particles of cas[?]ine are entangled in the cream and remain in the butter when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unsuccessful Farming and some of its Causes
MANY farmers seem so think that the chief reason why they cannot succeed is because their farms are too small. Yet many who reason thus possess twice as much land as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maize Crop
THE 'Mackay Standard 'says— As an instance of how much attention American farmers give to the maize, crop, we reprint from an Ohio agricultural journal the personal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crop Prospects in South Australia
MR. FREDRICK WRIGHT, in his financial report per mail of August 20, says:—Since the commencement of this month the weather has been cold and cloudy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Richmond River Farmers' Union
THE third annual meeting of the members was held at Tatham on Friday last for the purpose of receiving the Committee's and Treasurer's reports, electing office-bearers, &c…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Girl's Work on a Farm
AT the Glasgow Small Dobts Court on Wednesday—before Sheriff Mair—Nelly Dochetty, a farm-servant, sued William M'Gowan, farmer, Cardowan,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Sheep
THE 'Pall Mall Gazette' has a correspondent in Russia who is sending home " traveller's tales." He has just interviewed an English sportsman, Mr. S. G. Littledale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Twelve and a-half Hands High
THE PALL MALL GAZETTE has a correspondent in Russia who is sending home "traveller's tales." He has just interviewed an English sportsman, Mr…
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