The Farm & Garden. Crops and Manure
The system of applying manure to crops in great bulk at long intervals has long since been shown to be a costly and wasteful one. It does not necessarily follow, however (says…
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Farming & the land, 1899
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The Crops
The Times says that the yields of all field crops, except hops, are considerably below those of 1898. Wheat is 95.8 percent. of the average crop…
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A good succession of catch crops to sow between the regular crops is as essential to good farming as the selection of the main crops. It is often the neglect of these that makes…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London Wool Sales
The sales have closed. The total quantity catalogued during the series was 223,000 bales, of which 146,000 bales were sold for home consumption 68,000 bales for the Continent, and 2000 bales for…
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The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers Association report for week ending July 15, 1899 as follows:—Wool.—There is a firm market and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scone Co-Operative Dairy Co. Meeting of Shareholders
A MEETING of shareholders of the above was hold at the School of Arts on Saturday afternoon last, for the purpose of electing a liquidator in place…
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HERE are the terms under which dairying is conducted on the share system around Koroit and Tower Hill in Victoria: — The landlord provides…
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THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' As socialion report for week ending 15th July, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—There is a firm market, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Notes. The Improvement of New South Wales Stock. Part Iii
I am frequently asked the question: What in the best breed of cattle for dairy purposes? Now, no more indefinite query could be put, because the…
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THE winter feeding of dairy stock is not so general as it ought to be in New South Wales, but the practice is generally coming info favour among…
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MR. C. J. SPRATT announces that he will (in conjunction with Messrs. Scully and Welch) offer at auction at the local sale yards today, at 2.30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preservatives in Australian Butter
Mr. Cook has received from the Agent-General a copy of the correspondence addressed to the English Board of Agriculture by the Agents-General for the various Australasian colonies with respect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Close of the London Wool Sales
The wool sales have closed. The total quantity catalogued daring the series was 223,000 bales, of which 146,000 bales were sold for home consumption 68,000 bales for the Continent, and 2000 bales for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Benefit of Early Ploughing for Wheat
Mr. J. J. Piper, of Tamworth, writes: "In the May issue of the Agricultural Gazette, Mr. Fielen and Mr. Worboys speak of the benefit of early ploughing for the wheat crops. I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Singleton Argus Saturday, July 22Nd, 1899. Butter for eXPORT
THE rapid advance or the dairying industry in all of the coastal districts of the colony will render necessary, as soon as there is a favorable season,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm & Garden. the Real Value of Crop Rotation
"A bare soil, writes Mr. G. W. McCluer in the American Agriculturist," must sooner or later become a barren soil, even without the removal of crops. This comes as a result of the gradual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judging Dairy Cows Uniform Scale of Points
IT is fair to assume, writes Mr C. L. Black, of the Connecticut experimental. station, U.S.A., that the breeders of the various dairy breeds are each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Golidie's Dairy Farm at Port Fairy
The special reporter of the Melbourne Leader writing on the 17th June last, under the head of "A well managed Dairy Farm," thus refers to Mr. Goldie's farm at Port Fairy:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kate Farmer's Death
Herman Stanton Dick was placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day, charged with having caused the death of Kate Farmer. The facts of the case have already been published. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advance in Butter. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
WHOLESALE price of butter to-day advanced to 1s per lb for best creamery: other grader were raised proportionately…
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