Want of Farm Economy
"Many or the losses sustained by farmers and dairymen during the last drought" (said an old Queenslander recently on a railway journey) "were due to the carelessness…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1906
1,046 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 53
Wide-Awake Farmers. ("Daily Mercury."
A few years ago travellers in the wheal growing areas of Victoria were somewhat surprised to find the majority of the farmers staunch protectionists. The disadvantage of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Faked Butter
The Agents—General are prosecuting Messrs. Coopman and Young, butter merchants. charging them with having put butter into a box containing the Queensland Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy
White scour in calves, says a veterinary surgeon writing in the Auckland "Weekly News," is becoming increasingly prevalent in certain parts of the colony each spring. It occurs in calves shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Cattle Stealing
WHAT appears to be a smart capture has been made by Senior-Sergeant Edwards and Constables Rossetter and Mitchell (says a Walcha wire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
DALGETY and Co., Limited, Wool, Grain, and Produce Brokers, report under date of February 16th:-The weekly series of wool sales which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bold in Sheep's Teeth Enterprising Prospectors
An unusual application was made to the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Hay last week for two miners rights. The incident which led to the application…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep As Gold Finders
An unusual application was made to the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Hay last week for two miners' rights. The incident which led to the application is not an everyday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Culling the Dairy Herd
'A' New Zealand correspondent of the "Pastoralists' Review," writing about dairying in the island colony, says that diarymen have been having a splendid time recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Singleton Letter. Co-operative Dairy Company
An extraordinary general meeting fo the sharholders in the above company was held at the Elite Hall yesterday, Mr. James G. Dight (chairman of directors) presiding over an attendance of 31…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farm and Garden. Seed Planting
Farm operations can only be made profitable by proper forethought and management. It is not true economy to decrease expenses by purchasing cheap agricultural implements…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dairy
The following on preventible losses in connection with diary herds is from the "Rural New Yorker" :—"We can also class the horns with butter eaters, and the boss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Extraordinary Meeting
An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., was held at the Elite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Faked Butter
Messrs. Coopman and Young pleaded guilty at the Clerkenwell Police Court yesterday to the charge instituted by the Agents-General of having in their possession a butter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Duckenfield Butter Factory
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Duckenfield Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, was convened for yesterday afternoon, but there was not a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 17th February:— The closing auctions of the weekly series were held during three days of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market
DALGETY and Co., Ltd., Sydney, report under date of February 20th:—Since the weekly aeries of sales closed on 14th inst., an exceedingly strong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest News. Sydney Thursday The Sheep in the State
The Minister for Mines says that within 2 years the number of sheep in the Statewill be as large as before the drought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association
It is anticipated that there will be a good attendance of members of the above association at the meeting to be held on Wednesday next, the 28th instant, to deal with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report
Wednesday the 14th instant, concluded the weekly scries of Sydney wool sales. The business done up to that date brought the sales in this market up to 588,227 bales, an increase…
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