The Farm and Garden. Hybridising the Pansy
To attain success, that is something better and more striking than we have, we cannot be too careful in selecting the parents we are to operate on. Robust health is a first…
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Farming & the land, 1893
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Commercial News. WOOL
A London cable, dated July 8, says :—There is stronger competition at the wool sales, and prices, except for the worst class of wools, are firmer. The…
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Since the close of last auctions the London market for Colonial wool has been very quiet indeed; the actual transactions have been hardly worth mentioning. But for the intervention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Original Correspondence. Hare Proof Netting for Farmers. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Appended to the annual report or the Stock Branch of the Department of Mines and Agriculture for last year, Mr. Bruce has formulated a scheme that I think…
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Even if you are feeding the hogs regularly with good slop, do not imagine that it does away with the need of pure water for dri[?]ing. This is an important item in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sale of Wool in Sydney. (Herald's Commercial Article.)
The rapid growth of the Sydney wool market is illustrated very clearly by some figures appended to the report of Mr. Henry Austin, the figures of the other colonies being also given:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm and Garden. Sunflower Seed
That the sunflower seed has a great deal of virtue as a food supply is atteeted by the persistence with which mice will follow up the seed and the risks they will run to get at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Co-operative Farming
It is said that while the system of co-operative farming by village communes or "mirs," is rapidly being abandoned in Russia as obsolete and not in keeping with western progess, it is being adopted in…
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An English cable, lated July 18, says:—"The woool market it firm, with spirited competition, Winter, Ulinda, and Oreel clips have been add at 8 1/2d. Gunnee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm and Garden. Salt As an Added Dressing for Wheat or Barley
In the Bath and West of England Society's recently issued journal there are brief records of the field experiments of 1892. Those that were made to test the value of salt in addition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →St. Peter's Poultry Farm
Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure of inspecting St. Peter's Poultry Farm, the property of Messrs. Capper Brothers. Something like a year has passed since we saw the consignment of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Labour Farm Scheme. (Herald.)
The Minister of Lands was waited upon on Friday by a deputation introduced by Messrs. Schey, M'Gowen, and Sharp, Ms.L.A. The members of the deputation asked that there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm and Garden. Destroying Crickets
As orchards in all parts of the colony suffer at some season of the year from the ravages of crickets, the following particulars of an experiment with a view to destroying them…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Colonial Wool Sales
The third series of public sales of colonial wools for the year commenced in London on June 20. The net available total is slightly lighter than at the corresponding auctions last year, and the…
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The third series of auctions of Colonial wool, which began in London on June 20, progresses with strangely different results to those which obtained at the same period of last year. While the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm and Garden. Extremes in Feeding
Newly-made hay has a laxative effect upon animals which makes it unsuitable for horses, in which condition is a point of great importance. For cows, however, there is not the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Central Markets
Grainger and Falkiner report:—During the past week business in the produce market has been active, but little improvement to note in values. Maize is plentiful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →H. R. Farmers' Produce Sales
On Wednesday the usual weekly sales were hold in the sheds and yards adjoining the Church-street Railway Station, West Maitland. Mr J. H. Brunker was the…
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The pinching back of the new growth is important. It largely increases the bearing surface, and keeps the bushes low, strong and well formed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm and Garden. Something Like a Butter Cow
The milker " Fillpail," of which the Bridgewater Mercury gives an account, would be hard to beat. She is a cross between Devon and Jersey. She has had 22 calves,…
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