Manitoba Wheat
Dr. N. A. Cobb, the pathologist to the Department of Agriculture, had furnished a brief report to the Minister, Mr. Sydney Smith, in regard to Maritoba wheat. For a cold climate it appears…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1897
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London Wool Sales
Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—The fourth series of colonial wool sales for the current year opened on the 6th July, the available quantities being estimated as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hunter River Farmers' Co-operative Co., Ltd
A meeting of shareholders of the Hunter River Farmers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., was held at the registered office of the company on Thursday, August 12, at 3 p.m. Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The American Wheat Crop
The American wheat crop is estimated at 75,000,000 bushels above the yield of 1896, which was 450,000,000 bushels…
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The price of fat cattle is now at a phenomenol figure at Campbell's Hill (Maitland) and other sale yards. On Monday ordinal y conditioned cattle there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Industry in Singleton
THE butter industry is gradually but surely extending in this district. mainly owing to the enterprise of Messrs J. Moore and Co. in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Helping Themselves
At a meeting of farmers held at Bolwarra recently, it was decided to raise all the low positions of the embankments surrounding their farms, which altogether extend for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Irish Crop Failure. The Potato Blight. [By Cable] London
THE potato crop in the counties of Limerick and Clare, Ireland, are very severely affected With blight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cattle Market
The fat stock market at Campbell's Hill on Monday was very firm, but values, excepting for very prime quality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About Jersey Cattle
Mr J. Mahon came to New South Wales from Brisbane a few weeks ago, specially commissioned by the Queenslaud Government to select 15 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mammoth Sheep
This week Mr J. A. Dines, of South Singleton, exhibited in his butchar's shop the largest sheep which has been slaughtered here for years past. When dressed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manitoba Wheat
Dr. N. A. Cobb, the pathologist to the Depart-ment of Agriculture, has furnished a brief report to the Minister, Mr. Sydney Smith, in regard to Manitoba wheat. For a cold climate it appears…
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Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—The fourth aeries of colonial wool sales for the current year opened on tho 6th July, the available quantities being estimated as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →FARM & DAIRY Agricultural Advancement
The decision arrived at by the Minister for Mines and Agriculture to separate the experimental from the commercial function in conducting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paterson Bee Farm
One of the most noticeable movements in Paterson within the last week is that of Mr. G. Vogele's, who has purchased from Mr. Easom, of Stradbroke, the whole of his Italian bee farm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy Export Trade
On Friday Mr. R. J. Fairbairn, the newly-appointed Australian representative of the British Wholesale Cooperative Society, called on the Minister of Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Farm If garden. Prickly Peak As Fodder
Mr. J. A. Learmouth, Corea, writes to the Australasiun: "Noting a short reference as to the utility of prickly pear as a fodder it struck me that you? would be glad of more practical…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crops We Might Grow. the Peanut
Most people in our towns like the roasted peanuts that are sold at the confectioners' shops, but not one in a hundred has any idea of the nature of the plant or the method of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Proposed Commercial Farms
With the view of placing the experimental farms in connection with the Agricultural Department upon a more satisfactory footing, and dividing the commercial from the purely experimental in these…
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