Tweed Butter Co.'s Report
The Tweed River Co-op. Butter Co.'s report for the month ended 31st December, 1916, is as follows: The supply shows an increase "of 41 tons as…
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Farming & the land, 1917
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Wheat. Question of Guarantee
SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The Minister for Lands, replying to the contention that more than 3s per bushel for wheat should be guaranteed next season, said the question…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How to Dip Cattle with Safety
It may interest cattle owners to know that scientific investigation has produced a cattle dip which removes all risks of loss occurring from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Tick Trouble. Cattle Badly Scalded
Recently Mr. Chas Hogan that occasion in complying with the regulation to have his cattle dipped, with the result that he has had the by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Butter. Minister Unfavorable to Increase
The Butter Advisory Committee in Victoria requested the Minister in charge of foodstuffs and commodities to permit them to increase the price…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New South Wales Dairy Industry. Pointers for Dairy Farmers. M A. O'CALLAGHAN, in the, "Agricultural Gazette.''
I. The future of the New South Wales dairying industry, and probably of that of Australia, depends on the oversea export of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Good Onion Crop
It seems that onions can make the mouth water as well as the eyes. Three hundred acres of them which Mr. George Caldwell has under cultivation at Weston, near Spalding,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying. the Yellow Color. Cows That Store Up Carotin
Experiments conducted at the Missouri Station, U.S.A., have shown that the color of cream and butter due to carotin, a yellow coloring matter that is present in all feeds,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poultry. Goose Farming. Hatching and Rearing
Goose eggs take 28 to 32 days to hatch, and occasionally 34 days. The eggs can be hatched under ordinary hens, giving them three to five eggs each according to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →First Aid on the Farm. No Need to Send for the Doctor. Kitchen Cures
It is a fact, though it may not have occurred to the reader, that some of the commonest articles used in cooking are excellent remedies for ailments that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Crops
SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The official forecasts of the wheat crop in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia give an agregate of 140,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Butter Market
The Coastal Farmers Co-op. Society reports that owing to the extreme heat sales are at a minimum. Supplies from several centres continue to increase,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Affairs. Wheat Lumpers' Strike
SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- A message from Wagga this morning states there is likely to be serious trouble among the wheat lumpers throughout New South Wales over a dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labour Affairs Another Strike. Wheat, Lumpers' Dispute. Serious Complications Feared. Sydney
Messages from Wagga report serious trouble among wheat lumpers, which is likely to extend througnout the State, owing to a dispute at Old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Good Onion Crop
It seems that onions can make the mouth water as well as the eyes. Three hundred acres of them, which Mr. Geo. Caldwell has under cultivation, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmanian Dairying
The dairying industry in Tasmania appeals to be in a "transitory state at present. In quite a number of districts that a few years ago were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Potato Crop. Growers want Higher Price. LONDON
There is an increasing agitation among among potato growers against the low fixed prices. Lincolnshire growers declare that at these rates it will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Guinea Butter Bean
A few days ago a paragraph appeared in this paper describing a new vegetable known as the New Guinea butter bean, which had been produced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New South Wales Dairy Industry. Pointers for Dairy Farmers. M. A. O'CALLAGHAN, in the "Agricultural Gazette." (Continued from Wednesday's Issue.) How to Avoid Having Cream of Inferior Quality
Let me say right here, and in the plainest language, that three-quarters of the inferior cream received at a butter factory is due to a want of cleanliness in some part of the dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy Industry. Importance to the State. the Margarine Menace
The following is a statement supplied by Mr. A. S. McKenzie, General Secretary of the Primary Producers' Union of New South Wales to the commission…
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