A Good Butter Carrier
Many dairymen either put up their pound prints in the form of bricks wrapped m parchment paper, or in a broader, flatter, rectangular form, with quarter-pound divisions marked on in it. These are…
Continued on Trove, page 749 →Farming & the land, 1897
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Milk-fat (Butter-fat)
Milk-fat is present in milk in a very fine state of division, viz., in the form of innumerable little drops or globules or varying size, which are all of them invisible to the naked eye. In the milk…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Boracic Acid in Butter
The prosecutions instituted against certain vendors of Antipodean butters in Glamorganshire, on the ground that the imported condiment contains boracic acid, have been adjourned for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Market
The popular conception of the chief use of wheat to humanity is that the cereal is grown by farmers as a means of livelihood, and that it serves, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Fleet
The week's departures with wool comprised the barque Savernake, for London, with 2972 bales, and the barque Edinburgh, also for London, with 489 bales. The R.M.S, Mlowera, sailing to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Price of Butter. to the Editor
Sir, -- The mere fact that Mr. Aiken heads his letter in yesterday's issue with a misstatement ("The recent rise in butter"), and that he has sold his small handful of butter at 10d; also that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade. Friday Evening
Business in the local market has been very insignificant during the week, only small lots of scoured changing hands. Prices have been well maintained on the level of late auction rates, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Prospects of the Wheat-sowing Season
The year 1896 saw a record of progress in cereal cultivation in New South Wales, the increase in the area under wheat being the largest ever known in the colony in a single season. So far the…
Continued on Trove, page 746 →COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. Tuesday Evening
The changes in the general situation of the local wool market during the past week have been few and unimportant. The volume of business transacted has continued exceptionally light, as…
Continued on Trove, page 758 →London Wool Market. LONDON, Feb. 26
There is nothing stirring here in wool, and the trade are turning their attention to the opening of the next series of sales, a little more than a week hence. Things don't look over promising, and…
Continued on Trove, page 758 →English Commercial. LONDON, April 2. Wheat Markets
English wheat market is showing a general decline of 3d per quarter. The Continental markets are changing a little for the worse, and the American markets are declining and weak…
Continued on Trove, page 758 →The Recent Rise in Butter. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your issue of this morning Mr. C. E. D. Meares, representative of the South Coast and W. C. Company, in his well-known characteristic style, instead of attempting to answer any troublesome…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Butter Question. Division in the Sussex-street Camp. Conflicting Opinions of Sellers
Throughout Monday and Tuesday there was no abatement in the vigor with which the butter war was being waged among the wholesale merchants in Suseex-street. A meeting of some of the sellers…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Croppy Hole
A patriotic citizen of Carlow, John C. O'Neil, makes a timely suggestion, in the "Carlow Vindicator" relative to honouring the memory of those who sleep in "Croppy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairying Industry. Lismoke
The New South Wales Creamery Company has decided to establish about eight more creameries in this district. MACLEAN, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairy Notes
The milk supply to the Millthorpe factory is falling off rapidly. The factory is only able now to get sufficient milk to separate on four days of the week, though this month should under a favourable…
Continued on Trove, page 748 →Dairy Records
The supply of milk at the Mudgee factory during March totalled 48,620gal, the average test being 8.64. The supply was nearly 14,000gal less than for last March, owing to the drought. Burrundulla treated…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Review of the Wool Season
THE condition and prospects of the wool trade, affecting as it does so largely almost every other interest in the colony, is a matter of general importance, so that the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool
Manifested at Darling Harbour, Saturday April 10. H Haigh and Son— Liverpool 40—Woolahra…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →English Commercial. London, April 9. Butter Market
The butter brought by the R.M.S. Jumna from Queensland has arrived in excellent condition. It realised 90s to 92s per owt. AUSTRALIAN FRUIT…
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