Farming Prospects
WHILE agriculturists are bemoaning their inability to raise any crop that will enable them to keep the wolf from the door, it is highly anomalous to rend that the…
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Farming & the land, 1896
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Dairy and Farm. Experiments with Maize
MR. McKEOWN, of the State Experimental Farm, report —As. the red volcanic soil, of which the farm at Wollongbar is composed, is for maize-growing far inferior to that of the…
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MR. LYNE remarked at Quirindi recently that as our farmers have to pay heavy railway freights, they cannot compete against the foreign staff, which comes…
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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…
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THE Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College recently conducted an experiment to test the value of the Colonial Sugar Co.'s cattle molasses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers as Bookmakers
THE merchant who invests a sum of money in a particular business straightway opens a set of books, and the incoming and outgoing of every penny…
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So they are when the arrangements for them are suitable; but when they have the run of the place and may come close to the milking yards and bails, them pigs…
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DENMARK has during lace years made itself very conspicuous in the [?]-market on account of her in[?]mense production of the choicest butter, the export being more than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy and Farm. Milking Machines
THERE are ten milking machines in operation in the State of Iowa. The reader will wish the first thing to know whether they are considered successful. The answer depends…
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SPEKAKING at a meeting at Port Macquarie recently Mr. D. Bain, J.P., said that until his late visit to the Clarence and Richmond, he could not have…
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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 3 →Woodburn Dairy Company
A MEETING of shareholders in the above company was held at Woodburn last week for the purpose of receiving the annual report, and appointing four directors, in lieu…
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A WONDERFUL dairy machine is said to be on exhibition in England. This machine, the invention of Herr Salenius, a Sweedish engineer, makes butter in about a minute…
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Mathaias Stuessy, of New Glarus, America, we read, delivered to a creamery there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A New Product From Wool
THERE is good prospect, says the S. M. Herald, that a new branch will be added to the wool industry, and that another valuable product will shortly be placed on the list of of New South…
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THIS is a crop which should be grown in a garden. It is one of the most difficult crops to save from grub, and before sowing precautions must always…
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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 famished…
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THE usual monthly meeting was held at Mr. Benson's on Saturday last. Mr. S. Dutton occupied the chair. The minutes of previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy and Farm. Effect of Detasseling Corn
At various times it has been thought in America that the removal of the tassel of the corn plant would result in a largar yield. This was based on the admitted fact that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tips for Farmers
STICK to wheat. It was good enough for your forefathers, and ought to be good enough for yen. Clamour for protection. There is not the…
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