The "Hon Gordon Farmer." Alleged Forgery
At the Hobart [?] Court a young man, who claimed to be[?] Gordon Farmer, and said he was the son of an English baron, was charged with having on March…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1909
1,455 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 73
Soil-renovating Crop
A farmers' bulletin just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture contains the following note on the value of cowpeas and other leguminous crops, not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cleansing Dairy Utensils
Many people who handle milk do not know how to clean utensils properly. The absurdity of first scalding and then washing with cold water must be evident to any one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
The Harvester Commission has finished taking evidence in Sydney, and left on Friday for Brisbane. The Commission is disappointed at the comparative unimportance of the agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Unclean Dairy Factories
One of the officers of the Department of Agriculture recently made an inspection of several butter factories in the State and reported in the case of one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying Federation
A proposal is on foot to federate the wholo of the dairy companies in the Richmond and Tweed River districts. The idea is to have all the butter sold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying in Queensland
Thus a writer in a Northern paper:— North Queensland as a dairying centre is attracting much attention. Unquestionably it has enormous potentialities…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Sales
The wool sales on Friday the following have realised for the chips mentioned:—8½d; Thononga 10¾d; Wallabadah, Welaugr, 12½d; Strathbogie, 12[?]d;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market
Hill, Clark and Co. report:-In consequence of the good clearances made during the weekly sales very little wool was carried over to be dealt with privately, and the week has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairying Industry. Rearing Calves on Separated Milk
Separated milk has the feeding value of new temperature, with the one exception that its fat is absent. If we can find some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
At yesterday's wool sales competition was brisk, and prices were fully maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Sales
the wool sales on Monday prices realised the clips mentioned were:—Timenburra, Napier, 9½d: Titi, 9¾d; Hiku, 10¾d; [?]. 1211: Orandumbee, 12½d; Woolshed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our wool sales to-day we found excellent competition at prices from par to 5 per cent. higher than those ruling at our last sale. We…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Notes for Farm and Dairy. Making Manure
To dissolve bones for manure reduce the bones to as fine a state as possible. From a circular wall of ashes about 2ft. in height put the coarser particles of bone in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Topics of the Day. Chinese Demand for Wool. [?] Commissioner
Mr. J. B. Suttor, Trade [?] for New South Wales in the East, in a report to the Minister of Agriculture, writes with reference to the woollen industry in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Repairing Farm Machinery
As a general thing a great many farmers put their machinery away after the season's work, giving little or no attention to repairing the worn out parts, and when needed the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Feeding Farm Animals
In the course of a recent lecture on the health of farm animals. Professor D. D. Williams, of the University College of Wales, said:—The feeding of farm animals is one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Sales
At the wool sales on Tuesday quotations of the clips mentioned were :—Piangobal, 8½d, Walwa, 10[?]d; Ngatapa, 10½d Manbburn 11 [?]d; Lorne, 11[?]d: Tauroa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep at the Coming Show
A special feature of the coming show will be the display of sheep, the entries in the woolly section of exhibits being exceptionally good, thereby showing that local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales. (By Cable). London
There is good competition at the wool sales and price are fully maintained…
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