Feeding for Butter-fat
ONE of the hardest buts that many dairymen find to crack is that feeding does not improve the butter-fat percentage in the milk. Yet such is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1898
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Farmer and Grazier
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 →Dairy and Farm. Making Shows More useful
THE show ring should be considered as having for one of its chief objects the education of the public into a clear, conception and understanding of what constitutes a good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Selecting of the Dairy Herd
No farm animal is so susceptible to and reflective of, the treatment it receives as the dairy cow. She is, so to speak, a machine for the production of milk,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hints on Dairying
Some cows are gifted with extraordinary ability to turn food to product. But they are not to be accepted as a rule for others, any more than phenomenal men,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer and Grazier
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 →Dairy and Farm, The Ugly Bull
HOARD'S'' DAIRYMAN, ' writing recently, says:½ In the past' week we have read of two cases in which men have engaged in an almost death struggle with an infuriated bull. ln…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Going in Debt for a Farm
SHOULD a! young man without means to pay for it buy a farm?. This cnn be truthfully answered by saying, either yes or no. Circumstances must alter cases here as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' and Dairymen's Association
A COMMITTEE meeting of the above was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday last, the President (Mr. J . M'Kinnon) oc-cupying the chair. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ensilage as a Fodder for Dairy Cows
The drought in the north, and the bush fires in the coast districts, have had such influence on the dairying industry that a serious fulling-off in the output of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer and Grazier
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 →Tatham Farmers' Association
At a meeting of the above, held on the 5th inst., over which Mr. H. Polson presided there was a good attendance of members, and the following motions were carried:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Cow Tests
In this competition at the recent Nowra Show, 23 entries were received, and the testing ex-tended from 29th September to 25th January. Animals entitled to a place in the held book…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy and Farm Rooting a Rose Shoot
COMMENTING upon the fact that many people who have good success with other flowers fail to propagate the rose a writer says: When a rose has developed a bud, that shoot is in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Stock and Travelling Statements
MR. G. LARKIN writes as follows, utnder date 17th February — "The accompanying Departmental letter is in reply to representations made by me to Mr. Ewing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indian Butter
THE statement which recently appeared, remarks an English paper, that a large consignment of butter from Bombay was on its way to England, is a matter for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Ideal Dairy Cow
In selecting a dairy cow, we should strive to get an animal that has a strong mouth, a heavy jaw, a large brain, a prominent lively eye, large digestive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer and Grazier
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 →Farmers, Associations
Although the local combination of farmers and dairymen has not, as yet, led to any startling result in the direction of securing grunt reforms, still it is encouraging to note…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farming in Denmark
THERE are some five hundred Co-operative Cattle Breeding Societies in Denmark, each society owning one ball. There are high[?] local Agricultural Societies in the…
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