Dishorning Cattle
MR. THOMAS GREAVES, F.R.C.V.S., for many years consulting veterinary surgeon to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in a recent number of…
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Farming & the land, 1890
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Feed for a Butter Cow
MR. APPLETON'S wonderful Jersey cow, Eurotisma, made from 22nd April 1889 to April 1890, 745lb 90z of good merchantable butter, salted loz to the lb…
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AT the third annual meeting of the Camden Dairy Company the report and balance-sheet showed that notwithstanding the low price ruling for butter for some time past,…
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UNDER this heading we shall be glad to published contributors having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
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A KIAMA telegram says:-Mr. H. F. Noble and Mr. Thomas Armstrong, chairman and secretary of the New South Wales Dairymen's Association, who have recently…
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No other farm stock may be made so profitable as sheep. A small flock. on a farm will pay twice as much in proportion to its cost as any other stock. It is not at all diflicult to…
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J. T. FOELRT, Wayne Co., New York, desires advice how to prevent butter fromfading atid losing its quality, but as we are not informed how the milk was set, the cream…
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AT the last meeting of the Shepparton Agricultural Society a letter was read from Mr. Dargie, of Melbourne, expressing his willingness to start a broom factory in Shepparton…
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As to the condition of the average tenant: I interviewed him numerously ten years ago (in taking the census) when crops were large, prices very good, and he was prosperous…
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WE cannot too strongly recommend dairy men and stockowners generally to put in a few acres of A[?] cane. This variety of [?] has only recently been introduced…
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UNDER this heading we small be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
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WE regret having to state that we have it on good authority that unless an important meeting of representatives of the dairying interest of the colony to be held…
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AT times cows and other cattle are found eating rotten wood, old bones, manure and other course rubbish. This unnatural appetite is due to some irritation of the…
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THE fast milker has the fullest pail. Cleanliness goes before profit in the dairy. The man that figures closely never…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opining on public matters we do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements made therein.] Tc the Editor of the " Northern Star." Threatened Collapse of the Butter Market
SIR,—The arrangements made by the Dairy Farmers' Association early in October have resultad in the exportation of between 150 and 160 tons of surplus butter, keeping the local…
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