Kyogle Butter-fat Tests
At a meeting of the Kyoglo P.A. and H. Society on Tuesday, Mr. G. Fleming, who is in charge of the butter fat test in connection with…
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Farming & the land, 1917
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Butter Quality. Cleanliness with Cream
"Three-quarters of the inferior cream received at a butter factory is due to the want of cleanliness in some part of the dairy operations on the farmer's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Insurance. Companies Drop Heavily
SYDNEY, Thursday.--The insurance companies operating in policies against damage to wheat crops by hail have been particularly hard hit, during the season the estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Enlisting. May Enter Lamp at Own Convenience
Speaking in regard to the recruiting scheme as is affects farmers, the chatr man of the New South Wales Recruiting Committee, Professor MeIntyre, said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Setting an Example. Utilising Parks for Food Crops. LONDON
The golf club at Walton Heath, of which Mr. Lloyd-George is a member, has allotted five acres for the purpose of potato growing. The King also has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming at Night
Many a good harvest is spoiled by the weather. But a partial remedy has been found for this. In America the farmer does not allow daylight to put a quietus on work. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Quality
The New Cream-Grading Conditions. In an interesting little table the Dairy Expert sets out the quantity of butter of each grade that was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commandeering Cattle
A writ has been issued by Messrs J. F. Fitzgerald and Walsh, on behalf of Laura Duncan and Fitzroy Clarence Trotman, trustees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Butter Quality. The New Cream-Grading Conditions
In an interesting little table the Dairy Expert sets out the quantity of butter of each grade that was manufactured during July, August and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Pool
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The quantity of wheat shipped by the Australian wheat pool to the 8th inst. represented 15,429,000 bags, while the sales in Australia amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coloring Margarine. Butter Producers' Protest
In a lengthy statement forwarded to the Interstate Commission which is inquiring into the question of permitting margarine to be colored for export…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A District Record Cattle Sale
W. Gilbert Walker, auctioneer, and T. W. Dooley, in conjunction, report holding the record cattle sale of the district for Mr. George W. Moffitt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Tick Trouble. Cattle Badly Scalded
Recently Mr. Chas. Hogan had occasion, in complying with the regulations, to have his cattle dipped, with the result that he has had the by no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter and Cheese. London Market Prices. London
Danish [?] is firm at 216s to 218s. Heavy arrivals of colonial consignmen's depressed the market; choicest Australian salted is quoted at 200s,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister or Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 296…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Premiers Conference. Patriotic Funds. Wheat Advances. Sydney
Mr. Ashford, State Minister for Lands, has returned to Sydney from the Premiers' Conference. On being interviewed, he said that a central body…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy Industry. The Year's Work
Reviewing the year's work, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Grahame) states:-- The department has maintained its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Next Season's Crop
SYDNEY, Friday. -- Mr. Ashford says that the Premiers' Conference arranged that the Commonwealth should advance money in order that they might guarantee the farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bad Dairy Premises. (To the Editor.)
Sir, -- Yesterday you published extracts from the new Supervision (Dairy) Act. It is about time some new Act came into power to put a stop to the horribly filthy way some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Experimental Farm Cows. Some Grass Records
A writer mentions some records of the cows at the Berry Experimental Farm, which originally came from Wollongbar:--…
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