Wheat Prospects Dulled
THERE has been some scattered rain about the colony during the past week, but it has for the most part been very light, and the heat wave has more than…
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Farming & the land, 1897
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H. R. A. and H. Association. the Dairy Conference
A meeting was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, last evening, for the purpose of discussing the reports of the delegates to the recent dairy conference. Mr. E. Scobie, ode of the…
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A report has been received by the Minister for Mines and Agriculture from the acting-manager of the Wagga experimental farm, calling attention to the…
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The Minister for the district (Hon. A. J. Gould), in forwarding a number of copies of the recent Dairy Conference proceedings informs Mr W. H. Chalk.of Kurriud…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thursday, November 25, 1897. Farmers' Conferences
ALTHOUGH the gatherings of farmers and dairymen to discuss the reports of the gantlemen who were delegated from the H.R.A. and H.Association to attend the Minister's…
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The wool sales have opened. Tgere was fair competition at prices from par to 5 dent decline…
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The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association report:—Very large catalogues have this week been submitted to a full attendance of buyers. The supply included a…
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Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., Balme and Co., and Mr. Helmush Schwartze offered catalogues aggregating 12,575 bales, including a splendid selection of merinoes, many of the wools being of…
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THE wool sales opened to day. There was fair competition and priceshowed from four to five per cent of a decline…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FARM & DAIRY The Soja Baan
It is said by American authorities that the soya bean will yield 10 or 12 tons per acre, and can either be Used in its fresh green state or after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & garden. the Art of Manuring
In considering what manure to apply to a crop (says an English exchange), tho character of the crop and its capacity to take manure out of the soil should be studied. The cereal…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Points of a Dairy Cow
A good cow (says Australasian) always has the same general form, known as the wedge shape. The cow that milks well must necessarily take on the wedge-form, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Profitable Poultry-farming
It is not always that the British farmer is open to receve suggestions, but the facts stated by a well informed member of his own class in the current number of the Land…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers and Education
It has sometimes been said that education is an unnecessary accomplishment for the farmer; and even now quite a number of people think that…
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Farmers on limited areas may most profitably turn their whole attention to the dairy, pig breeding and feeding, and the growth of everything most…
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ON Thursday evening on audience of about 80 ladies and gentlemen assembled at the Wesleyan Church. Corinda to hear a lecture delivered by…
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Wool quiet, and there have been many withdrawals. Prices are decidedly weaker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton Requirements. Deputation to the Minister of Agriculture. a Model Farm Asked For, Etc. Sydney
A deputation from Singleton waited upon the Hen. Sydney Smith, Minister of Agriculture, this afternoon, to ask that an experimental farm should be established in the Singleton district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga Farm Wheat
THERE was a large gathering at the Wagga Experiment Farm on Friday last, including several Members of Parliament and a great number of…
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Amid general disappointment at the failure of the wheat crops, in many important districts, there are some cheering accounts of success at the Government…
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