Pigs on a Wheat Farm
THE low price of wheat again raises the question of consuming a portion of the grain on the farm by fattening pigs. When visiting South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1899
951 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 48
Wheat and Oats on the Coast
In reply to a correspondent at Branxton, who enquires regarding the advisability of planting wheat and oats in the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Effect of War on the Price of Wheat
Rumours of wars have been more than usually frequent of late. Whenever the diplomatic relationship between any two or more of the Great Powers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Pastoral Industry
During the past year the pastoral industry in the Singleton sheep district has been fairly progressive and the market demands have been such as to produce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Market News. Wheat
Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 17th January, as follows:— Wheat has been dealt in to a moderate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DAIRYING v. WHEAT-GROWING The Great Advantage of Milk Production
THERE can be no doubt that within certain limits it will pay better to grow fodder for milch cows than to grow wheat or hay For sale. Where…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Branxton Creamery Butter in London
SIR,—Following is a report by Messrs Lovell and Christmas (the largest butter merchants in London), on a small shipment of butter from this Factory, which may be of interest to your readers in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local News. Partners and Seed Wheat
The farmers have recently pressed upon the attention of the Railway Commissioners the desirability of making a concession on seed wheat carried by rail into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cable News. the Wool Market Brisk
For wool there is a very strong market, especially for merinos…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Green Feed for Winter. Solid Advice to Dairy Farmers. How to Obtain a Winter Milk Supply. [By an Agricultural Expert.]
LAND should be ploughed arid prepared as rapidly as possible in order to sow crops to supply farm stock with green feed for winter and spring. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Farm Holdings in England
It would really, says Commerce, Dec. 14, appear as though the mantle of "Genius of Agriculture" so worthily worn by the late Earl of Winchilsea, has descended upon the shoulders of Earl…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm & Garden. Stringy Milk
The cause of dairy milk becoming stringy remains to be found, and we venture to say that 99 out of every hundred cases of stringy milk are due to bacterial contamination…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Successful Wheat-Growing Experiment. American Rust Resisting Seed. an Albury Farmer's Crop
Some time in December last it was announced in the metropolitan papers that Mr. John A. Kennedy, a progressive farmer at Albury, had made a very successful experiment in the growth of wheat from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat
THOMPSON, Manning, and Jeremy (Wagga, Sydney, and Narrandera) report: —Advices from South Australia and Victoria state that wheat is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Improvement of Dairy Cattle. (Continued.)
When you have chosen the breed of the boll yon are going to use for the improvement of your herd, I must earnestly warn you to keep away from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smallest Cattle Alive
ONE of the greatest curiosities among the domesticated animals in Ceylon is a breed of cattle known to the zoologists as the "sacred running…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
Since the opening of the present series of wool sales, 46,345 bales have been catalogued, of which 44,356 bales were sold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advice to Farmers
A farmer writes as follows respecting crops for late planting:—"Amongst suitable crops that farmers should try is that of Russian sunflowers. There is still time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rotation Op Crops
TO carry on farming suecessfully, a knowledge of chemistry is necessary. For instance, an area of rich virgin land may yield 10 tons of potatoes the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales
At the wool sales the following prices have been obtained to fleece of the respective clips:—Ulenga, 8[?]d; Correllabun, 8[?]d; Clyde, 19[?]d; Gcenco, 10[?]d; Caiwarra, 16[?]d; Aohanga, 7[?]d; Ownrone, G[?]d…
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