About two months ago two two-year-old helfers owned by "Anxious To Know " (Katamatite). They have since gone off their milk are scouring badly and are very weak. ...
Article : 148 wordsTwo months ago (states "Cocky," Neerim South) a cow calved, and she has done no good ever since, but has wasted away to a shadow. -- We can only remind you that cows ...
Article : 74 words"Shepherdess" had a pet lamb, about 3 to 4 months, which died quite suddenly. It was strong and healthy, but half an hour before its death seemed to "go in the legs." It ...
Article : 122 wordsI bought a 12-weeks-old boar at the show, and since then it has developed some kind of weakness in its hindquarters and has to be assisted on to its feet (states "Pedigree," ...
Article : 76 wordsA cow, calved about 10 days, and belonging to "New Chum," Back Blocks, has a hard swelling on one back quarter. At first the milk was blood colored. Since the udder has been ...
Article : 127 words"L.F." (Moyston) owned a nice heifer, two years old, which suddenly galloped about as if mad, and, within an hour, fell into a creek and died. A cow has had a lump on her jaw ...
Article : 127 words"A.M.B." (Skipton) would be glad if anybody could furnish through the medium of the Bureau page particulars and a diagram of a cheap home-made wool press. Details of such ...
Article : 54 words"What causes redwater in cattle and how should it be treated?" inquires "Redwater" (Kyabram). Recently two cows died and when opened one had a much enlarged liver. The ...
Article : 88 wordsA newly calved cow was bought three weeks ago by "W.M." (Reservoir). At the time she was giving 14 to 15 quarts of milk a day. She developed very sore teats and went off her milk; ...
Article : 162 wordsA draught mare, seven years old, and owned by "Anxious" (Tongala) is getting very low in condition and seems weak. She eats heartily enough, and has been drenched for worms. -- ...
Article : 78 words"How can I keep weevils from seed wheat? Would putting the gram into a galvanised iron tank be advisable?" The inquirer is "Winchelsea." -- Experiments in fumigating grain with ...
Article : 375 words"How should I treat a heifer, calved three months, that has gone very stiff to the forelegs?" asks "Ignorant" (Congupna Road). "She goes about hunched up. has lost her condition, does ...
Article : 102 words"Inquirer" (Kaniva) is the owner of a heavy milking cow that has a lot of blood in one teat. Another teat has become hard, hot and Swelle and the milk clotted -- The cow has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 565 wordsWhat should be put on a horse's leg that was cut round the hock with barbed wire.? The wound (states "Constant Reader") is nearly healed up but looks dry and stiff and has a ...
Article : 68 words"Ignoramus" (Longwarry) wants to know when a cow served on September 28 should calve? A bitch was served on July 16. when should she have puppies? -- The period of ...
Article : 59 wordsUnder the impression that the swelling in one front quarter of a cow that had been milking 12 months was due to mastitis, the udoer was bathed with hot mater and rubbed with ...
Article : 156 words"Grey Horse," writing from Wolseley (S.A.), reeks information about a draught horse that has a cough breathes heavily with a wheezy noise in the throat at night and often gets ...
Article : 79 words"Country Economist" (Coleraine) mention a certain dip and asks: "What proportion of arsenic should I add to make sure of destroying all ticks?" -- The dip is a reliable fluid if ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the request of "Mallee Cocky" (Sea Lake) and for general information, there is republished on this page gestation tables for sows, cows, mares and ewes. ...
Article : 322 wordsIn the springtime (states "Springtime," Kempton, Tas.) the flavor of clover and green stuff taints the butter. -- As soon as the milk is drawn take it in an odorless place and, with ...
Article : 135 words"Country Reader" (N. S. W.) -- The upper and teat were damaged by the pumping. Your instruments and hands were not clean enough, and you pumped her up too often. Twice ...
Article : 112 wordsThe hind teats and up the back of my newly calved cow are very hard but the milk seems to be quite good (states "R.M.H."). The udder has been bathed and rubbed with oil and ...
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Advertising : 110 wordsCalves about two months old and doing well on skim milk (writes "Hard Hit" Mudgegonga) suddenly became sick, and in the course of a week died. The first symptoms were a slight ...
Article : 122 words"Troubled" (Mooroopna), is having trouble in his flower and vegetable garden with small, red legged insects, and wants to know how to check them: -- The insects are pea mites. Dust ...
Article : 120 words"Constant Reader" (Newbam) was advised to rub the legs of a cow with a liniment. The leg from the knee down to the hoof is now swollen and seems to be very painful and ...
Article : 114 words"Inquisitive" (Tongala) lost a draught horse that had a bad foot and a swollen leg. Another has a "sand crack" and goes lame. -- The four-year-old gelding has a wound on the ...
Article : 267 wordsI was much interested (writes "Afton") in the advice regarding means for preventing cows from sucking themselves. According to an English farming newspaper, winch has just ...
Article : 106 words"Kyabram" seeks advice on the treatment of a swelling on a cow's brisket, which during the last two months has increased to about six inches in diameter.-- Blister the lump with ...
Article : 50 words"Unlucky" (Malmsbury). -- If the inner skin of the egg is tough and dry the trouble is caused by a lack of moisture. If there is too much moisture, the chickens are killed through ...
Article : 57 words"Citrus" (Woomelang) notices small black insects on the leaves of his orange and lemon trees. They appear to be causing injury, and a method of eradication is desired. -- These ...
Article : 88 words[?]From Skipton "A.M.B." states that a mare went very lame and could not put her foot to the ground. After the limb had been well rubbed with a liniment a discharge came away ...
Article : 175 wordsMy young pig, four weeks old, has a growth like a blood blister on one of its hind legs (states "Old Malleeite." Wallup). The surface is cracked and some blood and pus is coming ...
Article : 64 words"Muscat" (Shepparton) asks when vines should be sprayed against the black spot disease. -- Spray now and later in the season with Bordeaux mixture consisting of 10lb. of bluestone, ...
Article : 85 words"What is the beet cure for lice on pigs?" asks "K.B." (Devenish). "There are two pigs. three months old, that are not growing like the others, although they are fed on crushed ...
Article : 95 words"Woolman" writes from Yarrawonga : -- This "cure" for footrot in sheep may interest some of your readers. It is from an English newspaper: -- Mix equal parts of sulphate of iron, ...
Article : 67 words"Curious" (Jeparit) asks if it is necessary to manure and irrigate peanut plants? -- With the seeds of peanuts put in super, at the rate of 2 cwt. an acre. Plots started about the ...
Article : 237 words[?]"Attempt" (Yarra Valley). -- Probably the ducks you Purchased are very old. When that is the case the birds are very shy layers. If they do not lay during this month, sell ...
Article : 40 wordsI am particularly anxious to get a well-bred heifer in calf; but she has come back to the bull three times. What can be done with her ? (asks "R.D.D.," Goolgowi, N.S.W.). -- The ...
Article : 99 wordsWhat causes a calf that chews its end to slobber all the time? "L.E.K." (Manangatang), who makes the enquiry, states that every morning, where the calf has lain down, there is a ...
Article : 137 words"Constant Reader" (Portland) asks "Can anything be done to bring in season a cow that has been milking three months and is in good condition? Also how should a horse ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Sat 17 Oct 1931, Page 48
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