Dairy Notes
The Mittagong Dairy Company during the month of December received 11,877 gallons of milk, and made 4578½lb. of butter. Suppliers were paid 2½d per gallon…
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Grain, Hay, and Potato Crops. A General Increase
A forecast of the wheat harvest of the season 1893-94 was published by the Government Statistician two or three weeks ago. Figures are now given showing the estimated area under and approximate yield of…
Continued on Trove, page 164 →Dairying in Victoria. The Warrnambool District
A special commissioner of the S. M. Herald, who recently visited Victoria, gives the following interesting particulars of the Warrnambool district:—…
Continued on Trove, page 162 →Cows for a Cheese Dairy
It is a common experience (writes S. Henry to an American contemporary) that almost everything has its special use, for which it is best fitted by its special character. Very few things, or persons either, are…
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Harvesting in the Grong Grong district is finished. The wheat sample on the whole is good. The average yield this season will be between 10 and 12 bushels per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 165 →The Old 'Un's Note-book Anniversary Day Racing. Gloria's Challenge Stakes. i the Trier's Victory. Warwick Farm Selections
Despite the unpleasantness of a sweltering afternoon, visitors to the Anniversary Day Meeting of the Sydney Turf Club were rewarded by seeing some very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Condition of the Crops
BERRY, Friday.--The farmers are rejoiced at the rain, which has brightened up the crops, and it is now fine growing weather. DUNGOG, Friday.--The weather is hot and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Taranaki Dairy Company
Mr. Valentine, the Government dairy expert, pronounces the Taranaki district, which he has just visited, the finest dairy country he has ever seen in any part of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Champion Farms. the National Prizes
The report of the judge (Mr. F. B. Kyngdon, M.R.A.C.) appointed to adjudicate on the merits of the farms entered for the champion prize offered in connection with the National Prize…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Dairy Records. Dairy Produce
At the railway saleyards during the week, at the numerous auction sales, butter was plentiful and selling dull at low figures. Eggs: Fresh laid were in heavy supply and sold slowly at low…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Cable Messages. The Unemployed. Laborers Pillaging Farms. Armed Bodies on the Roads
LONDON, January 18— The distress in the vicinity of Cadiz, Spain, is so great that bands of starving laborers have obtained arms and are pillaging the farms and shops.,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"My Friend Alcohol." the National Drink Bill—£5,000,000. Dipsomania a Disease—Not a Crime. The Reformatory Work at Echo Farm. Proposals for a State Retreat for Inebriates. Special Report of the Director of Charitable Institutions. The Government Acquiesce
THERE is a prospect, at last, of the Government doing something practical in the way of reforming public drunkards, instead of cramming them into the gaols, as is now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Race Meetings. Warwick Farm January Meeting—Racing in the Rain—Bendigo to the Fore Again—Broker Wins the Hurdle Race and Shamrock the Pace Welter— Aspendale Park (Vic.) Races. Sydney Turf Club Races, and Other Notes. at Warwick Farm. The January Meeting. Wet Weather. A Fair Attendance
THE muster at Warwick Farm yesterday was not up to the regular standard, owing to the heavy rain which fell during Friday night and Saturday morning. The coarse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat Crop
WHILE free-trade orators in the country are vehemently asserting that the protective duties have decreased the price of wheat, other advocates of…
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LONDON, January 27.—The English wheat markets are weak in tone, without quotable change in prices. Continental markets are lifeless. American markets are declining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Market
LONDON, December 22.--At the sales of Australasian "sheepskins with wool on" held yesterday and to-day, the catalogues included the following 670 bales Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipment of Butter to London. Melbourne
Included in the carge of the R.M.S. Valetta, which sailed yesterday for London, were 705 tons of butter, of which 026 tons were shipped from this port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, Dec. 22
Nothing is being done in London in wool; the near approach of the holidays would be sufficient in itself to curtail business; but no one wants any wool so near the close of the last auctions, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Weather. Rain General in the Counry. Farmers' Prospects Brightening. Heavy Weather on the Coast. Mr. Wragge's Forecast
After the continuous drizzling rain of Saturday there was a clearing up in the night, and for a time the stars were visible through the cloud rifts. As the night wore on the sky again became…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairying Industry
ULMARRA, Monday.—The Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Company's half yearly general meeting was held on Saturday, about 100 persons being present. The balance sheet showed a profit…
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