Wheat Farming on the Hunter. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
SIR,—Having read your article on dairy farming I would like to say a few words on wheat farming on the Hunter. For a few years I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1899
951 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 48
Our Muswellbrook Letter. Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Walks
A thoroughly representative and enthusiastic gathering of district settlors, farmers, and others assembled in the hall of the School of Arts yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of hearing an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Red Polled Cattle
This might be described as an improved breed of English stock, and though the great antiquity claimed for it by its ablest admirers promises to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Growing Crops for Stock Feeding
When acknowledging a vote of thanks accorded to him on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Abbott said that he had no interests outside the Hunter Vslley, a locality he had been endeavouring to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales
At the meeting of farmers, graziers, and others held here on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of considering the advisableness of forming branch of the above Association in the Upper Hunter, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Notes. The Improvement of New South Wales Stock. Part Vi. the Shorthorns
This breed is the most remarkable and most noted of the whole bovine race. Wherever one travels they cannot get away from the English Shorthorn. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairying Progress
DURING the past few months a number of factories on the south Coast have erected pasteurising plants, and the dairy expert, Mr. O'Callaghan, reports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat
Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 10th August, as follows :— The market is steady at np to 2s 11s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Store Cattle Sale
MR; EDWARD HIGGENS (for Hill, Clark, and Co.) notifies in this issue that he will hold an auction sale of 400 head of store cattle at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Clip to Come
From Albury it is reported that many of the larger stations in Central Riverina will shear fully one third less sheep than usual, while in a few instances the reduction, it is said, will be fully 50 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farmers' Association
A MEETING of the Committee of the Muswellbrook Farmers' Association was held at the School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon, to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Settlers' Association
THE meeting convened by Mr. C. J. Spratt with a view to the formation of a branch of the abovenamed Association in Muswellbrook was held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mules for Hawkesburg College Farm
Acting on the instructions of Mr. Cook, Minister for Agriculture, the department has just obtained several mules for use on the Hawkesbury College Farm, to see how their work compares with that of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Farm & Garden Selecting Breeding Sows
John Craig, an English pig-breeder, writes as follows on this subject:- "In such work as I have had to do in pig-breeding I have found some features having a strong tendency to b…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Feeding Dairy Calves
Mr W. H. Chalk, of Kurrindar, has a weather oye and he keeps it open on all matters relative to the dairying industry. There is not much of any importance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Graziers' Meeting
At a representative meeting of graziers and farmers held in the School of Arts at Muswellbrook on Wednesday afternoon it was resolved that a branch of the Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer's Good Fortune. Through Reading a Paper
MANY instances here occurred in which people have become the recipients of good fortune one way or another through reading a paper. Sometimes a man in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fall in Price of Butter. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
BUTTER declined two peace all round to-day. Best creamery is now quoted at 10d to 11d, other grades proportionately. Severl houses decline to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Notes. (Agricultural Gazette.) Smut in Wheat
MR. PETER F. ORR, of Michelago, writing in reference to a letter from Mr. P. Cosgrove, of Ganmain, on the subject of smut in wheat, says:—"I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conveyance of Live Stock to Market. Watering Sheep and Cattle En Route. an Eperimental Truck
The railway stock business forms a very considerable item of traffic in the railway transactions, The results for last year showed earnings of about £370,000 from this source, sheep numerically…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →