Farm, Dairy and Pasture Departmental Notes
These notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the…
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Farming & the land, 1914
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The Farmers' Senate Candidate
Among the many candidates seeking the suffrage of the electors during the forthcoming Federal campaign, Mr. A. K. Trethowan promises to occupy a not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal Farmers' Report
The Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Ltd., report for the Week ending July 3 :-- Butter.--From a marketing point of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—At the annual sheep sales, 800 merinos were offered. The first Havilah ram was knocked down at 520 gs. The show of merinos surpasses those in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Progress of the Pastoral Industry
Speaking at the Sheepbrecders' Show on Friday, Mr. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, congratulated the association upon the excellent results of the show. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cane Labour Troubles. Farmers' Offer Refused
The Secretary of the F. and S. Association was informed by the Manager of the Harwood Mill yesterday morning that the result of the conference with the cutters the same…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →S[?]pon's Wool Clip. Sydney
This sesson's wool clip is estimated at over thirteen million pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops to Sow
The "Farmer's Calendar" recommends the following in the Clarence-Macieay section for the month of July:— M[?] wheats may still be sown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grafton Experiment Farm
The monthly meeting of the committee supervising the egg-laying competition was held at the farm on Friday last. Present: Messrs. Haywood (chairman), Thompson, Collison,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foot-rot in Cattle. Early Treatment Urged
Cases of "foot-rot" in dairy cattle have been reported from several of the southern districts during the past few weeks, and at least one branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Live Stock. the Variegated Thistle. Dangerous to Cattle
For some years past it has been noted from time to time that when mobs of hungry cattle have fed on variegated thistle deaths occured in large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nambucca and Its Environments. Its Possibilities and Its Requirements. Its Representative Men. Its Old Identities. Its Representative Graziers, Farmers, Dairymen, &c. Its Picturesque Spots. Its Professions, Trades and Industries. S. A. Mahony (Macksville) and His Plumbing Works
Phone No. 4, mid what does it mean ? Steve Mahony's shop in the intersection of Cooper and Bent Streets, alongside of Reid's store,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Conference
The annual conference the Dairy Farmers' Association at New South Wales was held in Sydney during last week. The following were the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm, Dairy and Pasture Raising Cattle
The Queensland Government appears to be looking ahead in regard to cattle. The continued upward tendency of values of horned stock, and the probable shortage of beet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral and Agricultural. Foot-rot in Cattle. Early Treatment Urged
Cases of "foot-rot" in dairy cattle have been reported from several of the southern districts during the past few weeks, and at least one branch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Production
In some interesting figures prepared by the Minister for Agriculture, he set out that in 1909-1913 the mean average production was worth £10,557,000 per year. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool
The "wool year" closed on the 30th of June. Not that there was any cessation of operations, for the sales of such wool as is available go on just the same. But, as in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sheep Show
The annual show of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association fell on very unfavourable weather, rain falling heavily nearly all the time. The exhibits, 952, were more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying Progress
It is gratifying, says the "Maitland Mercury," to find that systematic herd-testing is being energetically and widely taken up in the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil Engines for Farms and Estates
The following was reprinted from the London "Times," Feb. 27, 1914:—"The oil engine has become almost [?]quitous, largely as…
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