Another Rise in Butter
Sussex-street butter marchants have decided to raise the wholesale price of butter [?] 4s per cwt. from Monday next making sup[?]ne 126s, and other grades…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1908
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Sydney Wool Market
Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—Following the tendency towards a weaker tone in evidence during the closing days of the last London series, it is perhaps not surprising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Big Deal in Fat Sheep
Lowcock, Broughton and King, of Tamworth and Gunnedah report having just concluded a sale of 27,000 fat wethers on account of the New Zealand and Australian Land Coy., Ltd, from their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Who Owns 31,668,000 Acres. Australia's Cattle King. Splendid Career
Accompanied by his wife, his son, and three daughters, Mr. Sidney Kidman, one of the most interesting personalities in the Empire, arrived in London recently by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Child Labour on Farms. a Shocking Indictment
One of the gravest difficulties public school teachers have to contend with in the country in their interminable battle to "keep up the average," is the tendency of many…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Diverified Farming
To increase both the fertility of the soil and the revenue derived therefrom (says an American exchange) the farmer should adopt method of diversified farming, the growing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Winter School for Farmers
The short course of instruction provided for busy farmers and stockowners at a comparatively slack time of the year to enable them to acquire the greatest amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
The wheat yield in Western Australia has not reached expectations, the average being 10.5 bushels per acre. Small landholders in Eastern Gippsland are in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Duckenfield Dairy Co
At a meeting of the directors and shareholders of the Duckenfield Co-operative Co. at Morpeth this afternoon, it was decided to wind up the affairs of the company and to go into liquidation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Butter Factory. Raymond Terrace Dairying Company
Within the past few yours the dairying industry has, to use a familiar phrase, made both great strides and progressed by leaps and bounds throughout the vast expanse known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Driving and Boycotting
The Most Rev. Dr. Healy, Archbishop of Tuam, in the course of a speech yesterday, strongly condemned cattle-driving. He urged participants to make…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canadian Wheat Transport
Mr G. P. Graham, Canadian. Minister for Railways and Waterways, yesterday announced that the Welland Canal, between Lakes Ontario and Erie, would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market
SCHUTE, Bell and Co., Sydney, report under date 9th June:—Following the tendency towards a weaker tone in evidence, during the closing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm and Dairy. Cultivation of Turnips
The best-known types are the common turnips (Brassica rapa), the hybrid turnip, and the ruta-baga, Sweidish turnip, or Swede (Brassica campestris of Brassica rutaluga)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Utensils
The proper care of dairy utensils, thorough washing in clean water, and the value of the small-top milk pall were treated in an address by Dr. R. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Help in the Dairy
The future of dairying will be much influenced by the source from which help can be obtained to carry, it on. The dairyman is more dependent on labour than those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Duckenfield, Dairy Company. Going Into Liquidation
For some time past the directors of the Duekenfield Co-operative, Dairy Co., Ltd., have been in the very disagreeable position of having to face financial problems, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warwick Farm Races
The weather was fine and the going good at Warwick Farm on Saturday. Results:— Hurdle Race, about 2 miles.—Zillah, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boycotting and Cattle-driving
Judge Curran, addressing the grand jury at Longford, Ireland, declared that boycotting existed in every county, without a linger being raised to suppress it, and cattle driving…
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