A Useful Green Crop
THE practice of ploughing down pens is a green manure has much to recommend it. The system prevails extentively in the potato-growing districts…
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Farming & the land, 1899
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The Wool Trade
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. send us a copy of their annual renew of the wool trade of Australia. They remark that the four leading features of the past wool season were strengthening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Market. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
A PRIVATE cable from London slates that the wool market is exceedingly firm. There is more demand for crossbred fleece and medium and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Talk to Farm Boys
Farmer boys, you need not envy the young men who stand behind the counters of the city shops. You need not envy the young men who are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Notes
That production of milk rich in butterfat is of the greatest importance will not be denied by any dairy farmer, since paying by results has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Sale Postponed
WE are requested to state that, in consequence of the wet weather, the sale of 170 merino ewes, advertised by Messrs. Corbett and Simpson to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Produce Reports
THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 19th August, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—The demand is now running…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fattening Sheep on Cultivated Crops. No. I.
As I have received many inquiries from different parts of the colony for particulars of my experiments in this direction I will ask you to give me space to set out as shortly as possible the things…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fattening Sheep on Cultivated Crops
As I have received many inquiries from different parts of the colony for particulars of my experiments in this direction, I will ask you to give me…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Crop in Manitoba
The crops in Manitoba are the heaviest for years. The yield of wheat is estimated at 34,000,000 busbels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fattening Sheep on Cultivated Crops. No. I.
As I have received many inquiries from different parts of the colony for particulars of my experiments in this direction I wilt ask you to give me space to set out as shortly as possible the things…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Industry. Fattening Sheep On Cultivated Crops
A? I hayo received cnn.ll3, inquiries from, different parts of the colony for particulars of ixiy experiments in this direction, I will r.sk you to Rivo mo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Trade
Messrs. Goldslbrough, Mort, and Co. send us a copy of their annual review of the wool trade of Australia. They remark that the four leading features of the past. wool season were strengthening…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association reports under date 19th August as follows:— The demand is now running strongly on the new clip, greasy and station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Settlers' Association
THE provisional Committee of the newly-formed Muswellbrook branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association met on Wednesday afternoon, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm & Garden. the Most Profitable Breed of Pigs
An interesting experiment was lately made at the Iowa Experiment Station, with the view of deciding as to the relative merits of the leading American and English breeds of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Farmers' Conference
ANOTHER successful meeting of farmers' representatives has recently concluded its labors at Orange. These annual gatherings and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairying Industry
In the reports of the Agricultural Department, just, prepared, the following paragraph appears:- The dairy industry motwithstanding inclement seasons, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cross-breeding Farm Stock
It is generally accepted as true among stockbreeders that a cross in the blood gives improved vigour and stamina and this position is also supported by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fattening Sheep on Cultivated Crops, No. 2. (Concluded.)
From January lst, 1895 to 1899, I have grown feed crops and got results as shown in the following table. These four years were not what would be called good years, but on the Hunter they were…
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