Farmer. Destroying Runt Pigs
[?]ture makes a runt in the litter, it is fair warning that the mother does not furnish food enough to supply the whole number. It is very rarely that a farmer can be…
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Farming & the land, 1893
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The Home and the Farm
LEATHER chair seats may be revived by rubbing them with well-beaten white of egg. SAND paper will whiten ivory knife handles that may have become yellow with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Home and the Farm. Poultry.—Table Breeds
As intimated in last month's Gazette, it is at present necessary to deal separately with layers and table birds, for the simple reason that the breed representing to the full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Home and the Farm. From the Factory to the Creamery
This is to be the next step in our dairy advancement. That is, by the creamary—dealing with cream only—in place of the factory which takes the whole milk. I have often thought that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. "Horse Dentition."
The practical author (Sydney Galvayne, the Australian horse tamer) of a handy little manual under this title, claims to import his own ability to tell the [?]act age of a horse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Co-operation in Butter Shipments
The meeting reported in this issue, held at Robertson on Saturday afternoon last, to take steps to bring about a thoroughly perfect co-operation among dairy farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robertson. Export of Surplus Butter. Mr. Pateson's Scheme
A meeting of farmers and dairymen was held at Robertson last Saturday afternoon to hear an address from Mr. Henry Pateson manager of the Fresh Food and Ice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Export Trade. (To the Editor of the Scrutineer.)
Sir,—I notice with much pleasure that the dairy farmers are going to work earnestly over the sale of butter and export of surplus, and as various schemes are put forward for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Emperor and the Farmer's Wife
THE young Emperor of Germany is thoroughly practical and manly in his character. While out hunting recently he found himself many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Home and the Farm. Spraying Trees
MR. TRESIDER has published the fallowing recipes for spraying fruit trees:— RESIN AND SODA MIXTURE.— Take ½lb resin and 6oz washing soda, add 2 qrt of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Surplus Butter Export
At the conference in Sydney between agents and dairy farmers upon the export of butter, the scheme in detail form was read, and a motion was moved that it should be adopted with such alterations and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Markets for Butter
The conference in Sydney of representatives of the dairying districts to consider Mr. Pateson's scheme of co-operation in butter export may profitably serve to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Housing Show Cattle
Comfortable and roomy quarters are essential in preparing cattle for show. Stall feeding is not the best system for show animals. Clean well-haired beasts do not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Famous Dairy and Poultry Farm. an American Vice-president's Property
The New York Tribune contains a long and exhaustive description of Ellerslie, the model farm owned and occupied by Mr. Levi Parsons Morton, vice-president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Something Like a Butter Cow. 22 Calves and Over £350 for Her Butter
The milker "Fillpail," of which the Bridgewater Mercury gives an account, would be hard to beat. She is a cross between a Devon and a Jersey. She has had 22 calves…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Berrima District Cold Climate Farm and Dairy Company, Ltd
The half-yearly meeting of the above was held in the School of Arts Robertson, on saturday last, but owing to the inclement state of the weather, the attendance was below that of previous meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Dairy Cattle
The Australasian says:—Mr. J. W. Cole, of Waters[?] Farm, Jamberoo, Illawarra, has for many years been trying to produce a distinctly new strain of dairy cattle. That…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Small Sheep Farmers
Mr. R. J. Black, in replying at the discussion of his paper on "The Banking Crisis" at the Sydney Economic Association, said, with regard to the small sheep farmers, that few people had any idea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Impounding Cattle
In the Full Court on Friday an application was made on behalf of Paul Henry Crowe, a selector on the run of Charles Brydon, for a rule nisi-for a writ of prohibition calling on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. the Butter Export Trade
There is trouble in the camps of the dairying interests. For, unfortunately, there are many more camps than one. It has arisen from the quantities of butter held over…
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