Asparagus-a Good Profitable Crop
With proper care an asparagus plantation can be made to last for years, Mid it seems strange that people who make any pretension to growing vegetables do not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1901
1,373 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 17 of 69
Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Celeriac or Turnip-rooted Celery
THIS plant partakes of the general character of the common celery is flavour, so far as the leaf is concerned, and is simply a variety with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Poisoned. DUBBO
Fifty nine cattle portion of a mob of 71, were poisioned through eating green thistles while camped on a reserve at Whylandra on Sunday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adulterated Butter. LONDON, Saturday afternoon
A grocer has been fined at the South, wark Police Court for selling French butter containing 62 grains of boracic acid per lb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Market. Sydney
The wholesale price of butter has lowered by one penny all round…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Travelling Sheep
Seven thousand sheep, which hare been travelling from Bourke since January 10th, passed through Millthorpe on Sunday en route for Rockley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Death of Cattle
A few weeks ago we reported the death under peculiar circumstances of a large number of cattle belonging to Mr. H. Crossing, while being driven…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Peculiar Disease Amongst Sheep
It was recently reported in these columns that a peculiar disease had made its appearance amongst sheep in the Western district. The malady…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Outside District Hews. Pastoral, Mining, Agricultural and Various Matters. Race Day Holiday
Wednesday, 8th May, has been proclaimed a public holiday in Mudgee and Rylstone, on account of races at the latter place…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Butter We Eat. Grading and Classification Urged. A Proposed Association
Between 20 and 30 gentlemen interested in the dairying industry met at the Royal Agricultural Society Show Ground, Sydney, last week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Crop
Throughout the district our farmers are toiling behind the plough. The area of land to be put under wheat this year is exceptionally large…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Millet
THERE are at the present time several varieties of millet—each of them having particular characteristic qualities, suitable for various…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Good Crop
Mr. J. Stott, of Canadian, has just completed harvesting 30 acres of maize. The return is 400 bushels, when the droughty conditions under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and Wool
GOOD sheep are not necessarily confined to any one breed. Scrubby and runty lambs are not valuable stock from which to breed. Unruly sheep, like cows, should be weeded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy. Mottled Butter
IN the 13th annual report of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, Mr. Chas. F Doane, deals with the canse of mottles in buster, and after innumerable experiments,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Wheat
AT the Metropolitan Exhibition held during Easter week, Wagga Wagga Experimental Farm made a grand display of produce, amongst which were some exceptionally good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. Manitoba Wheat
THE confusion of ideas arising out of the many wheats classed as "Manitoba" is due to the haphazard manner in which all and sundry varieties of the cereal grown in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The “ Smoko ” Sheep Shearing Machine
Not many years back the idea of shearing sheep by machinery was laughed at as a fanciful impossibility, but in this marvellous age of progress there seems to be almost no…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →M’Dougall’s Non-oisonous Sheep Dip
If there is one question more than another of interest to this State it is the improve [?] an increase of even a quarter of a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Breeding in the Bathurst District. Vermont v. Australian Merino
A question of construable interest to breeders of sheep throughout Australasia has been discussed freely in the "Australasian" recently, and Mr. W. H. Webb, of…
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