Selection & Purchase of a Dairy Herd
The establishment of a herd of profitable dairy cattle at the present time is by no means an easy matter. Dairying is being extended nearly all over the colony,…
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Farming & the land, 1897
29 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
Farm Notes. Sheep and Pigs as Land Improvers
The following extract from the Breeders' Gazetto has been brought under notice by Mr. A. Bruce, Chief Inspector of Stock. The owners of small farms find that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Gorgonzola Cheese
Gorgonzola cheese has been made an rather A large scale at Bodalla for two winters— winter being the best time, as there is no refrigerating plant on the estate. Some of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes. Lard
In a recent communication to the Department, Messrs, Elliott Bros., manufacturing chemists, mentioned that difficulty is experienced in procuring in this colony lard of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Seed Crops in New Zealand. Lyttleton Times, N.Z.
THE crops, in the Oust district are on the averace fairly good, although, in some places, they are very poor where they were late put in and the ground was wet when ploughed, in fact they will scarcely pay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Impounding Cattle. a Police Court Case
AT the Bowral Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. E. Caswell, P.M., Hiram Hines charged James Fitzgerald with illegally charging damages on five head of cattle impounded from property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Funniosities. a Pastoral Visit
A certain Dumfries minister was paying a pastoral visit to a farm-house where his creature comforts were well attended to. The good wife proposed that he should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The School Farm
MR. Sydney Smith, Minister for Agriculture, speaking at Castle Hill recently, said "he should like to see school teachers compelled to qualify themselves to impart…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Choking of Cattle
CHOKING, or the impaction of food in the gullet, in an accident of very common occurrence in the bovine family. Turnipa, mangolds, and potatoes, are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Butter Industry
We have recently published several letters referring to butter importations. The writers take the point of view of the producers, and contend that a duty is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tympanitis, Hoven or Blown. Cattle Disease
HOVEN is the unnatural distention of the rumen or paunch with gaseous matter. The cause Beema to be the suspension of the nutural peristaltic action of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dutch Belted Breed of Cattle
The Dutch belted cows were originally bned in Holland, and are related to the Holstein race, which is so popular in some of the States. The Dutch belted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowral Fres Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightly, but eat and drink as friends, Wednesday; July 7, 1897, the Sydney Sheep Show
THE industry which, the Governor, Lord Hampdon, aptly referred, to as the backbone of the prosperity of the colony has been much in evidence in the Metropolis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Pearl Farm
There is only one pearl farm in the world. It is in the Torres Strait, at the northern extremity of Australia, and belongs to James Clark, of Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pastoral Outlook
NOTWITHSTANDING the devastation of the late drought with its massacre of 10,000,000 sheep and loss of 100,000 bales of wool, the heavy sufferers are singularly hopeful,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overfeeding Fowls With Wheat
Wheat is not a safe food if given to any animal in excess. It swells in the fowls' crops end causes indigestion, which produces staggering and paralysis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hint for Gardener & Farmer
When the soil is kept loose by ploughing and cultivation, its capacity for absorbing and holding water is much greater than where it is neglected. Thus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Dairy. Butter From Sweet & Sour Cream
Consideratilk discussion has arisen upon the subject of the differences in the quality of butter made of sweet and of sour or ripened cream. As the quality…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Health of Dairy Herds and Farm Stock Generally
The necessity for keeping dairy herds and other classes of farm stock in a sound, healthy, and profitable condition is now beginning to be realized, and already…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crops We Might Grow. Pop Corn
AT the Sydney Agricultural Show, of 1896, there was a corn popping machine as work —(the same machine could be used for roasting pea nuts),—and in talking with the…
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