Cruelty to Dairy Cows
Full udders in dairy cows offered for auction sale are a kind of guarantee to the purchasers that the cows are in milking order. As a rule the animals' are not removed from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1911
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On the Land. Farm and Station. Items
Samples of the wood from the poplar tree are being tried, in New Zealand for butter boxes, as the white pine is becoming very scarce in many districts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South Coast. Pambula District. a Leading Dairying District. Scarcity of Labour. V. (By Our Special Reporter.)
Pambula is another old-settled part of the South Coast, the township itself being situated close to some very fertile flats, which in years gone by were mainly worked for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brush Farm for Boys. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Under the above heading a paragraph appears, discussing a letter published In your valuable paper of January 14, which was a reply to a statement made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sweated Dairy Hands. Conditions to Be Examined by Wages Board, Bega
A wages board will soon be inquiring into the conditions, hours, and labor on dairy farms. A log has been prepared by the union, which demands £1 16s a week for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Bush Fire. Farmers Heavy Losers
CULCAIRN, Monday.--On Saturday evening a hush lire broke out in a standing crop belonging to Shields Bros., share farmers, on the Kirndeen Estate, Culeairn. On Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Notes. Coonamble Experiment Farm
A commencement has been made with the preliminary work at the Coonamble Experiment Farm to supervise which Mr. George Voider, Chief Inspector of Agriculture, paid a visit to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Pastoral Industry
To mankind the sheep has been on of the most valuable bequests of Providence. In Australia, the merine sheep has been the Prime moves to the development of the wealth-giving…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Cattle at the Kiama Show
The annual show of the Kiama Agricultural Society was opened on Anniversary Day (January 26) in heavy rain. The downpour started during the previous night, and never did it…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Alleged Sheep Stealing
Detective Allchurch made further inquiries into the circumstances connected with the discovery of "the tiger's lair" at Tantanoola, South Australia. He found five additional…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep For Breeding
It is true economy to pay a good price for ewes that are exactly adapted for the land, and that are qualified when judiciously mated to produce lambs that can be relied upon to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Sheep Show
The schedule of prizes for the seventeenth annual sheep show to be held by the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association on June 28, 29, 30, and July 1 next, is to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Wool Sales
A couple of heavy catalogue covering over 10,000 bales—Winchombe, Carson, and Company, Limited, 6004 bales, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Sales. Sydney
Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange. Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,116 bales, and the sales including private transactions, amounted to 10,408 bales, as under:-…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Carriage of Butter to London
A message from Melbourne states that for a week or two the butter exporters and the mail shipping companies have been considering the question of the new contract for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Australian Cattle. Question of Improvement
The necessity to make some improvement in the bread of Australian cattle intended for export is now generally recognised. It is really beyond the question at the present…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victoria's Big Wheat Yield
The total quantity of wheat stacked at all Victorian railway stations last week was 1,884,703 bags, as compared with 1,554,365 bags on the corresponding period last year. Stripping…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat Yields Around Young
YOUNG, Tuesday. -- Harvesting operations have been in full swing in this district for some time now". The recent heavy storms and violent winds were responsible for considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Correspondence. Answers to Questions. Pastoral and Agricultural
Cattle King.—Woollahra: His address is Kapunda, South Australia. Questions.—Ab ertra: No. 1. It is illegal, though it is frequently done with impunity on Crown lands…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →Missing Sheep. Drover Charged with Stealing
The cases commenced at the Ashfield Police Court on Friday last, in which Frederick Sydney Martineer (45) had five charges preferred against him of stealing sheep at Flemington on January 12, were continued at the…
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