The Wool Sales
We have been lamenting, with otders, the effects of the American monetary trouble, more especially in connection with the markets for wool…
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Farming & the land, 1908
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Local and General. Allandale Crops
An Allandale correspondent writes to say that Christmas passed off very quietly at Allandale. Grasshoppers are present in great numbers, and if rain does not come soon, they are likely to cause a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Homes for Refractory Boys. Mtttagong and Doha Cheek
In his annual report of the operations of the State Children Relief Board, Dr. Mac-kellar gives some interesting information about good reformatory work done for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market
Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—As at present arranged, the Melbourne selling houses have decided to re-open sales on the 13th January instead of the 20th of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Children and Dairying Work
We have received another letter on the contr[?]ersy aroused by Mr. Senier-Inspeclor Blumer's remarks upon the subject of over-working children on dairy farms, but it is too abusive for our columns…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
Don't fail to keep some sort of suit handy so the cow may have free access to it. As a gleaner of small crops, a saver of little wastes, the sheep is as necessary as the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Torryburn Farms
We all have hindsight, but the blessed gift of foresight belongs to very few. Who is there amongst us for instance that can have any adequate idea of what the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jersey Butter Tests
I have before me (says a writer in the "Mark Lane Express") the records of some American Jersey tests under the ausplces of the American Jersey Cattle Club…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm and Dairy. [?]Ration of the Ayrshire
(An American visitor to the recent Hinghland Show) (says an exchange), raised a well called-for complaint against the present stander of the Ayrshire breed of cattle. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers" Disabilities
At a recent meeting of the Georgetown branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau. Mr, M'Auley referred to the fact that the farmer was often called a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lamb Raising on the Farm
In the course of a paper on lamb-raising, read at a meeting of the wandearah branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau,. Mr. Birks, as reported in the official…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. Sydney Wool Market
Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report :—The reduction in the Bank of England rate from 7 per cent, to 6 per cent. last week has come very opportunely so far as…
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A lady correspondent writing on the above subject does not hold with those who blame Mr. Senior Inspector Blumer for interference All right-thinking persons must agree that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market
Messrs. Schute,. Bell, and Co. report:—The reduction in the Bank of England rate from 7 per cent, to 6 per cent, last week has come very opportunely so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmyard Manure
As soon as harvesting is over (says P. S. Wicken in the West Australian "Journal of Agriculture"), those who have any quantity of farmyard manure should begin…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
For the first 51 weeks of last year 2353 new settlers took up 1,555,335 acres of Crown land; while 2914 additional holdings, totalling 776,210 acres were also selected…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Wrinkle for Farmers
The great trouble with market growers when I was a boy (says D. H. Hargeth in he "American Agriculturist") was that they sold their goods without any special trade…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Crops at Hunter's River
The wheat-fields around Darlington and Maitland promise one of the most plentiful crops ever reaped in the colony. Wheat will be low, both from the redundant crops here…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Serious Outbreak of Anthrax. Dairy-farmer's Death at Hillsborough
A well-known and highly respected resident of Hillsborough, Mr. William Cant, who followed dairy-farming for a livelihood, died in an awfully sudden and unexpected manner on Saturday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter From Whey
A correspondent of an American [?] writes as follows:—A few days I visited some of the cheese factories of the St. Lawrence Dairy Product Company in Turin,…
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