A Record Cattle Sale
Mersrs. J. D. Wood aud Co. on Thursday last held what, we believe, is a record sale of cattle in the Moss Vale yards. About 1400 cattle were offered and about 1200 sold…
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Farming & the land, 1906
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Glazed Butter
Under the caption "Glazed Butter" German papers state that batter can be glazed by the use of sugar; that is, it can be coated with a glasa-like…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Factory Floors
Substitute as soon as possible a cement floor for the wooden one now in the factory. Grade the ground to a slant of one inch in six feet to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Holds Up Tramcars. Traffic Delayed
A sheep, which would probably be dear at 50s, held up tho electric tramear service for half an hour on the morning of 11th January, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. Potato Diggers
Potato-digging appliances of various designs have been on the market for ninny years, and one or other of the different types may be soon at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Sale
Messrs. J. D. Wood and Co. held a highly successful sale of cattle on Thursday last at the Moss Vale yards, about a thousand head being disposed of at very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Factory Managers
The first annual conference of the Co-operative Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales was opened at 374 Sussex-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Successful Young Farmers
Messrs. Prevost Brothers, of Mount Meryla, Moss Vale, supply the following details of their farming operations:—Our farm consists of 140 acres, and we milk up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful Farming
Messrs. Prevost Bros., of Mount Mcryla, Moss Vale have given to an interviewer the following information at to their career as farmers:—"Our farm consists of 140 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat for Pigs
There are one or two facts in connection with the feeding of pigs which most pig-breeders accept as general rules First, a young, growing pig requires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Feeding the Dairy Cow
The actual solution of the question in money as to whether or not extra feeding pays can be soon ascertained by comparing the quantity of milk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. Care of Farm Machines
Now that the harvest is over, the present is a most opportune time for saying a word or two about taking proper care of the machines used during the harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. a Co-Operative Society and Canadian Wheat
A deputation from the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society recently visited too United States and Canada to Investigate the buying and growing of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. Notes on Bone Manure
Nowadays bones are treated in so many ways before being made Into manures that their proportions of nitrogen and phosphoric acid vary considerably when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. the Orchard
Although the fruit crop has not been very heavy, still there has been considerable tax during the season upon orchard soils. Attention will now have to be paid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle for the Richmond
The steamer Ramornie, which left Sydney on Thursday last for Richmond River, conveyed some valuable cattle recently purchased in this district on behalf of Mr. M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poultry Farmers' New Premises
The Poultry Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, held their first sale of table birds in their new premises, Parker-street, Sydney, on the 6th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. When Is Land too Good to be Tilled
Under the above heading, this problem is answered in on article in the "Journal of the Department of Agriculture," Ireland, in the following manner:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Concession to Butter Makers
The Railway Commissioners have been pressed for come ti[?] to make a reduction in the rates for the carriage of butter. Several deputations waited upon them on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Compulsory Grading of Butter
The following resolutions were unanimously carried at a conference of delegates representing several South Coast better factories at Berry last week:—…
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