Diversified Farming
There was never a time, perhaps, when the need for raising a variety of products on the farm was so urgent as at the present. The farmer who has…
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Farming & the land, 1898
969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 49
A Record Wheat Crop
The Government crop report, just issued by the American Department of Agriculture, indicates that the harvest returns of 1898, barring…
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MR. H. R. CARTER wheatbroker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as under August:— Since my last report up change of moment has come over the colonial markets. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Wheat Supplies
A writer in the June number of the Nineteenth Century gives some interesting figures regarding the sources of the wheat supplies of Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Best Sheep. Vermont Merinos Versus Australian
MOST conflicting are the views held by the advocates of these two types of sheep (says the D. Telegraph.) They are the subject of never-ending…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Trade Trouble. Sydney
MATTERS relative to the trouble in the wool trade still remain in the same position as last week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Hint to Farmers
Many of our farmers will be interested at learning the result of some interesting potato-growing trials which are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wholesale Poisoning, Awful Confession of an English Farmer
ANOTHER champion poisoner, named Horsford, A young farmer, has just been hanged at Cambridge for the murder of his cousin (writes a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Wheat Crops
A special report in the Times estimates that the condition of the British wheat crops is 1.8 per cent above the average…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Store Cattle Sale
MR. EDWARD HIGGENS (for Hill, Clark and Co.) will conduct a sale of about 1000 head of store cattle at the local Municipal Sale Yards, on Friday…
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It is reported that the loss to Mr. Leiter, owing to his unsuccessful attempt to corner the wheat market, stated some time ago to be 750,000 dollars, ia now put down at £1,800,000 starling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm to Let
ON reference to our advertising column it will be seen that a farm of 240 acres on Giant's Creek, part of the estate of the late John Hornery, is to…
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A farm of 600 acres is to be worked by the partially blind in Victoria. The fact of soft fruits from California reaching Sydney in sound, luscious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Prizes
A month ago the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Sydney Smith, approved of State prizes being offered to improve the quality of Now South Wales butter. It has now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Falling
Wheat is on the down grade, owing to an inrush of grain from Victoria, that Paradise of "protected" farmers. They have held their wheat all through…
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THE Government crop report, just issued by the American Department of Agriculture, indicates that the harvest returns of 1898, barring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairying Industry. Part Ii
A great advance has been made in what may be called the factory system, in which the dairy farmers send their cream to one centra to be converted into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Prizes
Last month a notification appeared to the effect that the Minister of Agriculture had approved of the State prizes being offered with a view to improving the quality of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market
Good prices were realised at the sale of store cattle conducted by Mr. Ed. Higgins at the local sale yards yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Market Hews. Wheat
Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date lOth August, 86 under:—The market remains locally as dull as…
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