"Subscriber" (Wandin) asks: "What is the best way to feed sorghum to cows, so as to ensure safety from poisoning?"--All plants of the sorghum family, which includes ambercane, ...
Article : 200 words"Would Like to Know" (Lakes Entrance) owns a young bull running with five cows. Three of them are apparently in calf, but two others have come back to the bull.-- ...
Article : 125 words"Pippin" -- (1) The usual terms of share dairy farming are--The farmer finds everything except labor, takes two-thirds of the proceeds from the cows and the pigs, but usually allows ...
Article : 215 words"Southern Cross" asks how to make the lime sulphur solution.--Home made lime sulphur consists of 8lb. of lime, 8lb. of sulphur, and 40 gallons of water. Slake the lime in two ...
Article : 117 words"What should be done to remove windgall lumps from the hind legs of a sulky mare?" asks "Anzac" (Yarrawonga). "Some lumps are soft and puffy; others hard and callous."--The ...
Article : 102 words"R.P." (Wagga, N.S.W.) enquires: "What is the best way to treat cattle that become blown and sick from eating too much lucerne? Three have died. (2) How should a cat ...
Article : 221 wordsA helfer 11 months old belonging to "Constant Reader" (Dandenongr) has been with two small calves that have sucked her and brought on the milk.--Shut the heifer away by herself ...
Article : 63 words"Wine Making" (Merbein) asks how to make wine for home use.--Pick the grapes when they are fit to be eaten. Do not let them become overripe. Crush the bunches, including the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 431 wordsA milking cow belonging to "Constant Reader" (Eurobin) that had good grass and maize and chaff daily, became mopey, and went off her milk. She was given a drench ...
Article : 70 words"My young pigs, four to six weeks old." states "Sick Pigs" (Kerang Road), "have the sours, and are falling away. They have been given castor oil, and salts in their food. They have ...
Article : 580 words"A young sow had 12 suckers," writes "Wants To Know" (Gippeland). "and they all died within a fortnight. The sow appeared to have no milk for them. She is about due to farrow ...
Article : 141 words"What is the proper time to give an aged horse a ball for bots?" asks "Fanner" (Orbost). He also seeks treatment for a six-months-old bacon pig, which is paralysed in the ...
Article : 175 words"Nigger" (Calulu).--The specimen is Centrum aura[?]acum or the yellow flowered oestrum. The berries produced on this garden plant are poisonous to birds. ...
Article : 58 wordsWriting from Morwell, "Posts" asks for particulars of the distances between wire holes in posts required for a recognised standard fence.--For a sheep and cattle proof fence, ...
Article : 151 wordsA young calf owned by "Torcny"(Finley, N.S.W.) was running with the cow for three days, and having been brought in has no appetite and its hair is falling off and there are now some ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Sat 7 Mar 1931, Page 49
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