Beef Cattle and Sheep. SYDNEY
At Homebush 2500 cattle were yarded. The market was very firm[?] Best beef sold from 32s to 33s. second quality 28s. inferior 25s per 100lbs[?] bullocks £7 10s to…
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Farming & the land, 1912
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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. North Coast Egg Industry. Value Easily Over £1000 a Week. (Special for the "Examiner.")
Said a Sussex-street merchant to a representative of the "Examiner." "It is not easy to say what the weekly value is of the North Coast egg…
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Mr. McLean of the Farmers and Settlers' Association addressed a member of the residents here on Tuesday evening on the desirability of forming a…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — The recent frosts played havoc with the fruit crops—particularly cherries—at Armidale. Late cherries, such as St…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The "Herald's" forecast of the wheat crop gives a probable general average of ten bushels an acre. Everything…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Current Events. Dairy Farmers' Association
A meeting of the Grafton branch of the Dairy Farmers' Association of New South Wales was held at the Town Hall yesterday morning. Mr. A. Eggins…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. Fashionable Ayrshires
The ill effects of fashionable breeding have been made manifest in pure Ayrshire cattle. "Show ring cattle faddists in Scotland," writes a well-known authority on the…
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The monthly meeting of the Tyndale and Shark Creek branch was held on Monday, Mr. C. A. Watson (President) presiding. Present: Messrs…
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"The Telegraph's" special commissioner "Coaster" contributed the following interesting contribution to the Sydney daily. The continued spell of fine weather has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy
These notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minter for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of…
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The herd-testing scheme has been approved by the Minister of Agriculture, and is now being put into operation. Very appropriately the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For Men on the Land the Banana. a Crop on the North Coast
In the October "Agricultural Gazette," the fruit expert of the Department asks why N.S. Wales should not take a more considerable part in…
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EXPERIMENT with various sprays for the prevention of Irish blight have been conducted in Ireland by the Department of Agriculture 'for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Commission
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. H. Anderson, Under-Secretary of Agriculture, giving evidence before the Victorian Wheat Commission, said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →North Coast Dairy Farms
The Loder Estate, Congong, Tweed River, area 1400 acres, has been subdivided into 14 farms, and will be offered at auction at Murwillumbah on the 7th…
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MR. J. M'LEAN, who is organiser for the Fanners' and Settlers' Association of New South. Wales, is forming branches of the above in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Tragedy. Suicide to Avoid Arrest
An extraordinary story was told at Rushall, near Walsall, on Saturday at on inquest on a farmer named Albert Charles Look, aged 35, at Carbridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Clarence Potato Crop Effects of the Season
The new season's crop of Clarence River potatoes began to arrive on the Sydney market earlier than usual this year, and supplies have been increasing in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Men on the Land. (Notes issued under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and based mainly on the exporiments of the Department. Should any former desire information relevant to his work on the land a query addressed to the Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Sydney, will be answered, as far as space, permits, in these columns.—Editor.) The Banana. a Crop for the North Coast
In the October "Agricultural Gazette," the fruit expert of the Department asks why New South Wales should not take a more considerable part in the production of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Grading
SYDNEY, Monday.—Thomas Wise, a Riverina miller, giving evidence before the Victorian Commission, which is inquiring into the handling, of wheat,…
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