WHEAT v. POTATOES
It might be Imagined that growing potatoes at £2 per ton on the farm, with a yield of live tons to the acre, is a far more profitable occupation than raising wheat with a 15 bushel yield at 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1894
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A Word to Wheat Growers
We must keep close to facts ia these perplexing times. Whatever may be our present difficulty through the unprecedented fall in grain values, we remember that the world's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A New Venture. the Shipment of Live Cattle to London
THE steamer Moari King, which left last Saturday for London, taken over 50,000 carcases of mutton, a large quantity of wool copra, and a special shipment of 20 bullocks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Something for the Farmers Silos and Silage. No Waste in Fodder, and the Most Made of Everything. a Wrinkle for the Farmers. a Suggestion
ELSEWHERE in this issue we publish a brief extract from the Orange ADVOCATE, which should be read with interest by the yeomanry of the Molong district. The article gives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer & Grazier
[Under this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. Farmers and graziers in the Molong district are, therefore, requested to forward…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To Make Feed for Crops
At present the majority of New South Wales agriculturists are exercised in mind as to the best method of enriching the soil so that it will produce good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Millthorpe Butter Factory. Milltorpe
In conversation with Mr. Edwin Ezzy, the energetic secretary of the Millthorpe Butter Factory Co., Limited, I learned that this company have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day's Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Cattle Market
Sheep—37580 were penned, prices have declined. Wethers brought 4s to 9s 2d; ewes 4s to 8s 4d. Cattle—334 yarded, and market dull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
The total clearance at Sydney wool sales for the fortnight, including private transactions, was 2043 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Trade
The reckoning of the wool harvest of Australasia affords the most striking statistical feature that can be presented to the Colonist, as the produce of our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miner As a Farmer
A correspondent writes :—I suppose you know that the farmer bas to pay £1 per acre rent to produce his crop. But I suppose you do not know that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feeding on Sheep Farms
"BRUNI" writes:—During my last trip in New Zealand I was much struck with the attention that was given by the owners of small farms to fattening sheep…
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WE clip the following letter from the Sydney Stock and Station Journal:— "Sir,—In your issue of the third inst, your correspondent 'T.B.' has Lincoln…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Curious Bread-and-Butter Story
BY way of illustration of the proverbial craftiness of the Norman peasantry, the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph telis an amusing story, which he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How to Pack Sheep's Tongues for Shipment
MR. GORDON CAMPBELL, who was appointed by the Victorian Minister of Defence while in England recently to look after the exhibits of Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Romance of the Wool Trade. the Woollen Trade in England and in New South Wales
THERE were unquestionably "workshops for weaving" at Winchester in the days when the Romans landed in Britain. Thirteen or fourteen centuries…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Markets. Farm Produce
Buyers were in large attendance at the Redfern market yesterday morning and the heavy supplies submitted met with a fairly animated request. Prime chaff hay and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Crop of America
The wheat yield of the United States for 1894 is estimated to bo 8,000,000 bushels under that of 1893…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Markets. Farm Produce
At the Redfern market yesterday supply was fairly animated. Second quality and inferior lots were, on the contrary, in quiet demand. Another attempt was made to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day's Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. The Wool Clips. the Commissioners Active
It is stated that by means of prime concessions the Railway Commissioners have secured the carriage of several of the Riverina wool clips which formerly went to…
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