Pastoral Products. Wool Manifested
The quantity of wool manifested at Darling Harber and sub-stations yesterday amounted to 410 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1912
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Pastoral the Crossing of Sheep. Work of the State Farms
There is still a percentage of farmers, happily growing fewer each year, who habitually sneer at the work of the State farms. They are unable or unwilling to look below the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter
The shipments of butter during the same period were:— In boxes: United Kingdom and Continent 18,859, Hongkong 324, Japan 79, New…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral Notes
A report states that a fat cow and a bullock, which took prizes at the recent Dunedin Show, are to be exhibited at the Sydney Easter Royal. The bullock weighs one ton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Markets. Dairy Cattle
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Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dutch Cattle
So much attention is now being paid to the milk yields of cattle (says the English "Field") that a few figures illustrating the capabilities of Holstein cattle at the pail…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Successful Butter Making
Some of the causes of inferior quality in butter are a want of cleanliness in dealing with the milk, leaving the cream so long on the milk that it becomes sour, not churning…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London Butter Market
Dalgety and Co., Limited, reports that it has received a cable from its head office regarding the London butter market under yesterday's date as follows:— "The market is very firm, and tending upwards…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Butter Grading in Queensland
During the past year the grading officer of the Queensland Department or Agriculture examined 278,298 packages of butter, chiefly for export. The salted butter totalled 139,891…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Export Trade. Butter
The London butter market is distinctly firmer. The dry conditions prevailing through-out Australia have had a contributory effect. Prices are [?]s higher than they were last week…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Encouraging the Wheat Growers
It is pleasing to note that In the prize schedule of the Wagga Show for 1912 there are included in the agricultural section no fewer than eight special grain prizes, of which six…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Agricultural and Pastoral the State of the Country
Some interruption to harvesting operations has been caused at various places by thunderstorms, and the falls have in some instances been heavy. Probably the most harm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the Wheat Is Bagged
It is at Eastertide, not Yuletide, that the country is said to have come to town. That may certainly be taken as a fairly general rule, but when times are exceptionally good no…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat in the Country. STACKED
Following is the return of wheat stacked at different stations on the New South Wales dines during the week ended December 23:-- Stockinbingal 7672 bags, Springdale 2106,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Origin of Sheep. Wild and Domesticated Types
All living wild sheep are more or less covered with hair (says C. J. Davis in the Live Stock Journal"), and it is impossible to believe that the parent of our contemporary…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wyalong Wheat Belt. the Railway Extensions
"Progress," Wagga Wagga, writes:—"The present Government has been in office for fifteen months, and so far has done nothing towards making possible the settlement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Butter and Cheese Market. News From London
Messrs. Mills and Sparrow, London, write, under date of December 1, as follows:-- "We have had changeable weather in London during the past week, but, on the whole,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Works Partially Destroyed by Fire
A fire broke out early on Friday morning in the washhouse of Thomas Elliott and Co., Ltd., woolscourers, Springvale, Botany, Sydney. The works are spread over three acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Notes. First Australian Wool Grower
Mr. H. Farnell. Waterfall. writes:--"Having [?]ead of the doubt existing regarding the first introduction of sheep to the colony of New South Wales, the following may be of…
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