Dairy and Farm. Irrigation in Queensland
AN INGENIOUS CHINESE WATER LIFE WHEN the question of irrigation is mentioned, it instantly raises in the mind of the farmer the procuring of…
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Farming & the land, 1902
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The Dairy. the Effect of Overstocking Our Dairy Lands
In a country like this, where there is no rotation of crops carried on by dairy farmers, the effect of overstocking, and thus preventing the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strange Deaths of Cattle
RECENTLY a mob of 600 cattle, purchased by a New England grazier at Charleville, Queensland, a few months ago, were transferred to Armidale by rail, the animals…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Selling Cattle by Weight
THE NEW ZEALAND FARMER says:—It is somewhat singular that the practice of selling cattle by live weight has not been more generally adopted. That the custom will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inspection of Cattle Alleged to be Diseased
I THINK, Mr. Editor, that dairymen of the Richmond and Clarence have already had a surfeit of Government interference with their interests over the compulsory slaughter of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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. Improvement of the Milking Machine
THE evolution of the milking machine has been slow, but prospects are now improving. The first machine that arrived in Victoria 15 years ago was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. Qualifications of a Good Buttermaker
The great advances made recently in our export trade, to say nothing of our large home consumption, has created a demand for skilled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The Northern Star." Wednesday Morning, 3Rd December the New Butter Factory
THE opening, yesterday, of the Lismore branch factory of the North Coast C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Misguided [?]airy Farmers
THE means by which [?]airy formers wer[?] gulled into opposing their own interested connection with the Dairy Bill may here garded as clever by those who played the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Champion Butter Cow
AMERICAN papers claim that the champion butter cow of the world is a Holstoin owned in the State of Minnesota, she having a verified record of 584 pounds of milk in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An All-Round Sheep
At the Wagga Experimental Farm attempts have been made to produce a serviceable sheep for farm flocks and also for mutton and wool. A very good result has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Supply of Cattle
OF the 1,360,000 cattle in New Zealand, over a million head are in North Island; and while the annual increase in South Island during the past four years has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The World's Wool King
IN the Riverina recently a Catholic Press representative met on the road over 50,000 sheep going in search of grass to the mountain country. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer and Grazier
UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contribution having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy & Farm. Rural Homes
It has been said that you can judge a city or town by the number of churches and drinking saloons in it, so the prosperity and moral tone of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy and Farm. Irrigating Lucerne
Lucerne requires judicious handling at this season of the year. Watering where the advantages of irrigation are available requires to be attended to, but with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying in Ireland. Sunday Work
AT the Newcastle West Petty Sessions on Friday, Mr. J. Nicholl, Inspector under the Factories Acts, summoned the Newcastle West Co-operative Dairy Society…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying Industry. To the Editor ' Sydney Mail.'
SIR,—In your last three or four issues of the Sydney Mail,' you have had a got deal to say about the proposed " Dairy Bill," and in your issue of March 26 you…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Good Farming Season Predicted
FOR five years the weather forecasts of Mr. Harcourt Giddons have been published for nearly, eighteen months in advance, and they are becoming more popular every year…
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