Preserving Butter in Brine
As soon as the butter is ready for the market, by the ordinary method of cleansing and salting, whether by keg or roll, it is divided into one-pound or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1890
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Rust in Wheat
The subject of rust in wheat has attracted the attention, and has been the cause of a considerable amount of trouble and very great loss to, the Australian farmer since the year 1803 when the parasite…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A Wool Ball
Make a ball of cotton, tatting, wind slightly with ford, thread a darning needle with yarn of some bright color. Commence somewhere—anywhere—on the ball, calling it the top. Insert your, needle with…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga
Stock passings: 9600 mixed weaners, W. J. Lyne owner, Pullitop to Tyrie, via Junee, Morangarell and Forbes, Jas. Bent in charge. WILCANNIA, FRIDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New South Wales to the Front. the Mudgee Butter Factory. Reform in Farming Work. Gratifying Evidence of Progress Under Freetrade
On March 11 the first consignment of butter from the Mudgee Co-operative Factory arrived in Sydney, and sold at the South Coast and West Camden Company's store at the top figure, namely,…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The American Wool Tariff. Proposed Increases
LONDON, Thursday.--The special committee appointed by the United States Congress to prepare a revised tariff have presented their report…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. MARCH 19
The usual fortnightly sales have taken place this week, and although the quantity submitted was small a good deal had to be passed in. Sales made privately during the interval elapsed since…
Continued on Trove, page 636 →Wheat and Maize in the United States
The estimate of the last wheat crop of the United States by the Department of Agriculture is 490,460,000 bushels. It is a large crop, and has only been three times exceeded. In 1885 the production was put at…
Continued on Trove, page 626 →The Selection and Preparation of Seed Wheat
The time is again at hand for the sowing of seed wheat, and the practical farmer need not be told that it depends a good deal upon the quality of the seed whether he reaps a profitable crop next year or not…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Wool-growing in the River Plate Districts
It would appear that Australian sheep-shearing machines and men to work them are required on the River Plate. The Buenos Ayres Standard of a recent date tells its readers that the shearing there…
Continued on Trove, page 624 →The London and Colonial Wool Markets. London, March 21
Messrs. Buxton and Ronald have issued a circular in which they deprecate direct Australian purchases of wool. They state that the colonial markets rule under the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Conference on Rust in Wheat. What It Has Done
The conference of delegates in Melbourne from different colonies which have suffered from the pest of rust in wheat has been brought to a conclusion. The conference, which was presided…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →American and Free Wool. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—No wonder American farmers object to free wool. They have to pay so heavily for all manufactured goods that they are [?]th to abandon the sole benefit they receive from protection. There are, indeed,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wool Tariff of the United States. [By Cable.) (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 20
The Republican Committee of Congress has proposed the following alterations in the wool tariff of the United States:—Reductions of 11…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Baby-farming
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Selina Davis, a young married, woman, who was convicted of abandoning an infant at Hawthorn, and during whose trial it transpired that she had adopted a number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Victorian Farmers and Protection. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Goulburn
Mr. Young, president of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association, in reply to a letter of congratulation from the local branch of the Free Trade and Liberal Association, writes as follows:—" It is very gratifying…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dairy Notes
An experiment has been tried at the Dookie Agricultural Farm in making butter, by burying the cream and by churning, setting one method against the other. The result is thus reported:— The cream was equally…
Continued on Trove, page 625 →Baby-farming in Melbourne. a Woman Sentenced to Three Years. With Eighteen Months in Irons. MELBOURNE
Selina Davies, convicted of deserting an infant entrusted to her care, has been sentenced to three years, the last 18 months to be spent in irons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Victorian Farmers and Freetrade. (By Telegraph.)
GOULBURN, Friday.--Mr. Thornton, secretary of the local branch of the Freetrade and Liberal Association, has received a letter from Mr. Samuel Young, president of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hawthorn Baby- Farming Case. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Selina Dimes, convicted of abandoning an infant, was to-day sentenced to three years hard labor with terms of soiltary confinement. The prisoner, who is…
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