New Butter-making Process
Something new in the way of making butter that will keep is advocated by a French chemist named Ehrmann. The process consists of blowing carbonic acid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1908
516 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 26
The Wool Industry
For fully eighty years New South Wales wool has been acknowledged to be equal to any in the world, and has always realised top market prices. In the sixties the price…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Field. Potato Blight in New Zealand
Potatoes in New Zealand have this season been seriously affected by blight. A large proportion of the crops inthe west have been saved from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy. Cost of Milk Production
Mr. John Speir has entered elaborately into the cost offeeding dairy cows summer and winter in the West and South-West of Scotland. His information has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] summer Work with Poultry
During very warm weather it is. found advantageous to do the necessary work in poultry houses that have not much shade, in the early morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Butter-making Process
Something new in the way of making butter that will keep is advocated by a French chemist named Ehrmann. The process consists of blowing carbonic acid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. (BEFORE his Honor, Acting Judge Edmonds.) Saturday, April 4, 1908. Breach of Agreement.—a Matter of Wet Sheep
This was a case in which the plaintiff's Denis Hardman, James Jennings, William Fitzgerald, and Michael Callaghan, shearers, sued William Gardner, shearing contractor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. Cost of Milk Production
Mr John Spear has entered elaborately into the cost of feeding dairy cows summer and winter in the West and South-West of Scotland. His information has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Potato Blight in New Zealand
Potatoes in New Zealand have this season been seriously affected by blight. A large proportion of the crops in the west have been saved from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Slow Increase of Cattle
The great herds of cattle which depasture throughout Australia at the present day had a very modest beginning in 1788, when a bull, four cows, and a calf, were landed from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tanning a Sheep Pelt
Sheepskins make fine mats when they are tanned in a proper manner. When the pelt is removed from the sheep it should be thoroughly salted on its flesh…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Winchcombe, Carson and Co's Annual Wool Review
We have received a copy of the above. It sets out by remarking that the wool season of 1907-8 has furnished another illustration of the uncertainty which attends the market…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dairy. Milking Shorthorns
During recent years increasing attention has been bestowed by dairy farmers upon the development of the milk yielding capacities of dairy cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Crimson Clover
Trifolium, or crimson clover, is one or the most useful catch crops any farmer can grow, and it is one of the easiest crops to put in. It requires, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Pastoral Visit
"I was a little surprised," observed, the new minister, "to see your husband get up and walk out of church during my sermon."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. Wool Report
Schute, Bell and Co., report under date 7th April:—Cables as to the closing sales of the London series have been somewhat conflicting. Press messages have advised that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Brown Rot in Fruit Trees
Brown rot is a very common and widely distributed disease among fruit trees. It occurs among cherries, apples and plums as well as peaches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Pests: Rats
Of all animal pests on a farm rats are about the very worst, and if persistent measures are not taken to keep them in check they are capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tanning a Sheep Pelt
Sheepskins make fine mats when they are tanned in a proper manner. When the pelt is removed from the sheep it should be thoroughly salted on its flesh…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Wheat Yield. an Interesting Statement
1 is interesting and instructive to note the production of other important wheat growing countries. The following statement shows the estimated wheat production of the…
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