The Farm & Garden. Grafting Fruit Trees
When grafting fruit trees, the system—an almost universal one—of using clay or grafting wax for covering the union of the scion with the stock is condemned as being unnecessary…
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Farming & the land, 1903
698 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 35
Sydney Markets. the Farmers' and Settlers Co-operative Society, Ltd., Report
Butter.—Owing to the considerable shrinkage of supplies resulting from the excessive hot weather lately experienced, the price of butter advanced this week to 1s per lb, at which figure good business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grading Butter
Two or three firms have adopted the innovation of grading their butters, and are asking a farthing extra for choicest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Right Kind of Sheep
MR. E. VAN WEENAN, so well known as a judge at the annual shows, has an interesting article in the last Agricultural Gazette on the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Distribution of Seed Wheat
APPLICATION in conusrtion with the distribution of seed wheat are reaching the Department of Agricuture rapidly. Up to the present 1100 such…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Concessions. Seed Wheat [By Telegraph] Sydney
THE Railway Commissioners the notified that, in the drought districts truck lods of wheat will be refused to half special low rates charged for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Stealers Beware
Blacktracker Jacky Button, who left here about six mouths' ago, resumed duties at Broke on Saturday last, and tracker Jimmy has been sent from them to Jerry's Plains, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co. report—The wool market firm and unchanged. We sold: Greasy to 11½d. scoured to 20¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murrurundi Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, 18Th Feb., 1903. (Before His Honor Judge Gibson. Alleged Sheep Stealing
ROBERT HALL, committed from the Murrurundi Court, was brought up on a charge of stealing one sheep, the property of J. F. Hoddle, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
Messrs. Winchcombe, Caran[?] and Co. report under date 16th lost. We held our fortnightly wool Bale to day, and Sold about 2000 bales. The market was firm for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Provident Farmer. Ensilage from Corn Crops
IN various parts of the Armidale distrier farmers are at present engaged in the manufacture of ensilage from earn crops. Mr R. W. Nicholas, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Bacteriology; or Germ Life in Relation to Our Dairying Industry
Bacteriology is one of the youngest sciences, and although history dates back to the researches of that eminent Dutch philosopher, Anton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Bacteriology or Germ Life in Relation to Our Dairying Industry
Bacteriology is one of the youngest sciences, and although history dates back to the researches of that eminent Dutch philosopher, Anton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Most Successful Farmers
The Farmers' Review says the most successful farmers pay some attention to the beautifying of the farm home. The man that takes no interest in the surroundings of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Points in Choosing Dairy Cows
In an informal talk on this subject at a recent field meeting of the Connecticut dairymen's association, Mr. J. B. Walker, who has had many years' successful experience as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Champion Dairy Cow
Mr. G. F. Gilmour's (Weedons, North Canterbury) Rosie was the winner of the milking test at the recent show of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm & Garden. About Pigs
It is questionable if any description of farm live stock will be more profitable than the pig, under proper management, during the next few years. At the present time the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Bush Fires. Damage to Grass and Crops. Many Homesteads Destroyed
Sunday will long be remembered in the Hunter Valley—and, indeed, in many other parts of the State—as one of the most disastrous days in its history. The morning was hot, and between ten…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farmers' Produce Market
Good supplies of produce were forward on Wednesday at the sales in West Maitland. Buyers were present in strong force, and for nearly all lines there was an advance in price. Hay was in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Alleged Baby Farming. Woman Committed for Trial
WHAT appears to be a case of baby farming has come to light at Launceston (Tas.), where Amelia Anderson, a married woman residing at Sandy…
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