Farm and Field. News and Notes
The harvest around Narrabi is proving one of the best since wheat-growing commenced in that portion of the State. The majority of the farmers are gathering heavy…
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Farming & the land, 1908
1,362 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 67 of 69
The Wool Sales
Competition at the wool sales on Saturday somewhat quieter, and prices occasionally in buyors' favour. [?] the wool sales yesterday prices…
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The main point to be considered in the manufacture of fine butter is the flavour. If a nice flavour can be secured, the rest is comparatively easy. I would name as the…
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'Paragraphs have been circulated in the press recently". (says the December number of the "Agricultural Gazette") "concerning wonderful returns from wheat grown in…
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Dalgety and Company, Ltd, report:— The rapidity with which wool has been sold in the Australasian markets during the short space of the past two months…
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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At our wool sale yesterday we found the market for greasy merinos…
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"To hear some people talk, " says Mr. J. H. Maiden, Government Bot[?]nist, in a paper on "The Figs," with sixteen illustrations, in the current number of the "Agricultural…
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At a meeting the other day of the Cherry Gardens branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. J. E. Smith, B.Sc., pointed out (according to the official journal) that apart…
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At the commencement of winter I told you that Mr. Butler, of Escott Park, had subjected some beans to the process of electrization before planting…
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Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—The buoyant tone which characterised the market last month has not been so greatly in evidence since December opened. Still, lines suitable…
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For week ending December 12, 1908: Wool.—Taken on the whole the selection brought forward during the past week has not been quite up to the…
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The manager of the Government export, mental farm at Bathurst, speaking to a company of farmer visitors, recently emphasised the fact that it is the dry season…
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Many farmers, whose holdings, to say the least, are far from being models of agricultural skill and industry, consider themselves too experienced to be able to…
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Mexico has suspended two-thirds of the grain duty until April, and is importing eight to sixteen million bushels of hard Canadian wheat to mix with the soft local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Wonder Wheat" an American Wheat Story
PARAGRAPHS have been in circulation recently in the press concerning wonderful returns from wheat grown in Alaska. It was asserted that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Market. Goldsbrough, Mort, & Co. Report
AT our last sale of the year, we brought forward a good average catalogue of good and useful wools, with a fair proportion of first class clips,…
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The main point to be considered in the manufacture of fine butter is the flavour. It a nice flavour can be secured, the rest is comparatively easy. I would name as the…
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"Paragraphs have been circulated in the press recently" (says the December number of the "Agricultural Gazette") "concerning wonderful returns from wheat grown in…
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PARAGRAPHS have been in circulation recently in the press concerning wonderful returns from wheat grown in Alaska. It was asserted that the…
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A forecast of the wheat harvest gives the total yield for the State as nearly 14,500,000 bushels, an average of not [?] bushels per acre. The harvest…
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