Hints for Farmers
BE sure to keep for breeders the hens that lay best during the moulting period. Their record for the year will be found large. Sell the poor milkers to the butcher as…
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Farming & the land, 1893
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A Good Farmer
A GOOD farmer should never depend upon his neighbours for what he can, by care and good management, raise on his own farm. He should not beg fruit when he can plait or…
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BUTTER factories and creameries are rapidly extending in Victoria. We extract some results from the Australasian:— At Numurkah several farmers are giving up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unconsidered Trifles in Dairy Factory Practise
IN a late issue of the Kiama Independent Mr H. H. Honey, the well-known writer on dairy matters, gives his opinion of the various methods of testing milk for the butter it…
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UNDER this heeding we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published wherever furnished…
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Mr. J. Boyd KINNER is one of the most interesting writers upOn agriculture that we have at the present day. He writes well to begin with, but that is the least…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy and Farm. Paying for Milk by Test
THE manager of the Gulgong Dairy Company, Limited, in his last report gives strong testimony; in favour of the advisableness of factories paying by results. He says:—"Payment for milk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden. Winter Wheats. Two Ways of Protecting Young Wheal from Injury by Inclement Weather
There are two ways even in the most exposed country of saving young whealfrom the worst injury by the weather, according to American Cultivator. One…
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FRANCE has 7,000,000 head of cattle which yield daily 2,000,000 gallons of milk, worth £40,000,000 annually.Any fool can farm—so long as his money…
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UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle on Shipboard
It is rough business at best, shipping live beef cattle across the ocean. Blooded animals imported and exported for stock purposes are carefully protected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rules for Butter-Making
PROBABLY the greatest difficulty in dairying at the present time is the acceptance of a certain standard of knowledge, but beyond this, the prevailing idea is no more required…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dairy. Winter Butter. Taking Cars or the Conn That Give Milk to Make It
Which is better, to take your milk to a creamery whose butter sells for thirty cents per pound and above, or to manufacture it at home and get twenty-five…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Axd Farm. The vanning IuduMtry of America
Tun statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture reports the pack of tomatoes last, year in the United States an 3,233,175 canes of two dozen cans each. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Field and Garden Winter Rations for Eggs. Director Gilbert, or the Canadian Station at Ottawa, Makes a Report
Notwithstanding all that has been written on the subject of winter laying, the query "How to obtain eggs ill winter?" is of frequent occurrence. With a…
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About this time of year the himped up milk cow is to be seen shivering against the south side of a straw stack with the icicles hanging to her coat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Birds on the Farm
BIRDS regulate the equilibrium of insects. Most all insects do a large amount of good to plant production by mixing pollen in the flowers, making honey, and causing thinness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Value of poultry on the Farm
THERE are some things difficult for the peo ple to understand. Some fail to see the benefit, the instruction, the enthusiasm, that grow out of a poultry exhibit whon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bonuses on Butter
REPRESENTATIVES of the butter merchants of Melbourne and the Dairymen's Association waited on the Minister of Agriculture for victoria last weak, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Industry
THE returns form the dairy industry in New South Wales for the year 1892 show that the manufacture of butter has considerably extended; that of cheese exhibits a slight…
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