Potato Crop Experiments
At Mr. A. M'M. Singleton's farm, Mundrook, Manning River, Up-to-Date potatoes gave a return, in experimental plots, equal to 7½-tons tons per acre. The actual return from an…
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Farming & the land, 1916
32 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 2
Dairying
Recent references to the means by which cream becomes contaminated stopped short at the cow. Yet the patient animal is herself not free from guilt. Farmers seldom…
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The Winconsin experiment station, U.S.A., has shown by actual, trial, that where lucerne was cut on 2nd September. 1914, the stand on 12th May, 1915 (which, of course…
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"Three-fourths of the poor cream that is coming on to the market to-day is caused by carelessness in cooling." The statement was made by an America…
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There is an old saying that "you cannot tell by the looks of a frog how far he can jump." It may be said, too, that you cannot tell by the looks of a cow how much milk…
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It is one of the anomalies of rural life in this land that vegetables form such a small part of the ordinary diet on many farms. Where there is every implement…
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I am an orchardist. Nothing distinctive about that, in the district of K —, where everybody grows oranges, and nearly everybody, does has own work— or most of it…
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Dairy farmers ia different parts of the State are wondering why they should have to furnish a statement under the Dairy Industry Act, 1915, showing the number of cows…
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Among the economic questions considered by the Department of Agriculture in the United States is the value of farm animals,, farm equipment and farm products, and a…
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Although every attention be given to the working of the "soil it will be found insufficient to make available the large quantities of plant food required for so many crops in quick…
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The rural workers of New South Wales, under the direction, of the Central branch of the A.W.U., have decided that an eight-hours flay arid minimum rates of pay, according to a…
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A novel method of indicating profitable and unprofitable farm animals was adopted by the Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders' Association last season. An exhibit of dairy…
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