Record Load of Wheat
A record load of wheat was landed at the old Jance Railway Station this week. The load was drawn by 16 ballocks, and consisted of 141 bags which, altogether weiglfed…
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Farming & the land, 1904
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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Feed for the Dry Season
THE hot weather and dry period which usually prevails daring, midsummer and early autumn is usually very trying and critical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles Treatment of Brood Sow and Pigs
THERE is an impression among some people— but a wrong one— that the shorter breeds, as poland chinas, Berkshires and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Milk Plow in Dairying During Hot Weather
WHEN the milk flow, in cows becomes lessened it cannot be regained during the lactation period. When the very warm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News Gleanings, Robertson Dairy Co
For the month of December the Robertson Dairy Compauy paid suppliers 3d per gallon for milk. The milk supply is the best for years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cream Separator on the Farm
The problem for the dairyman, after he has produced the milk is the separation of the cream and the manufacture of a product which will bring him the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Queen Sells Butter
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has gene into the dairy business and is now making mosey by Belling milk. and butter. Her first step in this direction m when she…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For Stimulating Growth of Leguminous Crops
Recent discoveries by scientists of a successful al method of propagating nitrogen breathing bacteria in innumerable quantities and being able to transfer them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm ind Garden. Original Articles, Poultry Keeping
THE raising of poultry by farmers has not hitherto been considered by there as a business but rather as an adjunct or a pastime, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Economical Feeding of Dairy Cattle
PROFITS in dairying now depend largely upon the sum total of small savings made possible by careful Attention rather than an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Butter Market
The Minister for Agriculture has received a cable from the Commercial Agent in London, iu which be slates that the English butter market is of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Receipts
The railway anthorities state that from December of last year up to Saturday the number of bags of wheat received at Darling Harbor was 873.451, as against…
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At the Goulburn Quarter Sessions on Tuesday last, before his Honor Judge Fithardinge, Thomas Hines, about 35, was charged with stealing,…
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A case under the above head was tried at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions on Tuesday last, before his Honor. Judge Fitzhardinge, when Thomas Hines,…
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At the Goulburn Quarter Sessions, Thomas Hines, about 35, was charged with stealing at the Cross Roads on November 23, two sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Butter Market
The Commercial Agent in London, Mr. Lance, has sent the following report to the Minister for Agriculture regarding the condition of the English…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News Gleanings The Cabbage Crop
One hundred and five tons of cabbages were trucked from the Bowral railway station last week, establishing a record. Thirty-eight tons were sent on one day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Management of Comb Honey
ALL strong colonies of been when run for comb honey will generally , cast a swarm. The parent colony should be let aside and the swarm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market
THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Books are, cook, nine and a half pounds, hen, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pigs and Sheep for Codlin Moth
Mr. John Broderick of Crookwell recently wrote to the Field as follows:—"I believe I have read all the remedies that have been published in the Agricultural Gazette for…
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