Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen
An old driver writes:—"I have been employed both by dairyman and milkvendor for some years. The dairymen have only themselves to blame for the state they are in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1908
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Agricultural and Dairying. Real Reform in the Fruit Industry
The legislation passed last session for the purpose of regulating the fruit industry was long-needed. Recent events have amply justified it. Fruit-growing is an enterprise…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Butter in England
In their weekly market report Messrs. W. Waddel and Co., under date London, November 29, write:— The demand for Australian butter has been somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Wool
Growers of wool, the staple product of this country, are often much vexed at the end of the season as to the best means of disposing of their clip. Among the leading…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Markets Coming Wool Sales
Sehute, Bell, and Co., Sydney, report:—As at present arranged, the Melbourne selling houses have decided to re-open sales on the 15th January instead of the 20th or that…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Farm and Dairy Produce
Business in Sussex-street during the week was very slack; this is due to the wind-up of the Christmas holidays. Most of the lines in dairy produce markets were sold out, and…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Soil Settlement and Production. Wheat Experiments. 'Victorian' Field Tests. Success of "Federation."
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The results from experimental wheat fields, conducted under the supervision of the Agricultural Department, have been announced. There are 26 fields, each…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Agricultural Societies
While it may be said that the management of the agricultural shows throughout the country is reasonably good. It is also apparent that very little progress is made towards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying
STROUD.—A new 20-horse power boiler and boiler-room have just been erected at the Gloucester District Co-operative Butter Factory Company's, Ltd., factory. Stroud, at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Luck of Farming. "A Pure Gamble." Wellisgton
A district farmer considers that farming is a pure gamble, as one year a man might have a splendid crop, while the next all his belongings might be lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral North Queensland
The shearing machines are now practically laid by for the next wool clip. Only a few late Hocks are being put through, and but for showery…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd
There has been little business moving in the market this week, and buyers prefer to limit their operations until the auction sales are resumed on the 21st inst…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Butter From Whey
The "Canadian Dairyman" writes:—There is an average loss of about 3 per cent. of butter fat left in whey when it is ready to dip or to be run off the curd in cheese-making…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Short Weight Butter
The Co-operative Butter Factories' Association at a meeting in Melbourne recently decided to wait on the Minister for Customs to discuss the fairness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Peculiar Sheep
All the tall stories do not come from America; this one is from an English exchange: "A sheep at Sideborough (Devonshire) exhibits an unusual infatuation. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Dog Training
Darwin thus describes the method of educating the sheep-dogs in Banda Oriental: It consists in separating the puppy when very young from his dam and in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Toxaemia
No. 996, Bogan Gate, writes: I would be thankful to get some information concerning fevered or foundered horses. It is a common thing among wheatgrowers to get their horses…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Report
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., report:--Owing to the holidays there has been little doing in wool circles, any transactions taking place being on a very limited scale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Crading for Ireland
The "Irish Homestead." of 14th September, says: It will be a good day for Ireland when we can state the weight and quality on each package…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ace of Cattle
The specification adopted in connection with the great international show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth is…
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