A Record in Wool
12,398 bales of wool were received at Darling Harbour this morning from different parts of New South Wales. This is stated to be a record…
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Farming & the land, 1909
1,455 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 73
Farms and Harvest Dances
Once upon a time there was in the heart of New York's busiest crowd an abandoned farm. It lay upon a rocky bluff overlooking the North River, with railway tracks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Unbalanced Sheep
"There are lots of queer things about sheep," said the Hired Man reminiscently. "there's them New Hampshire sheep that feed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Dispute
THE dispute between the wool-buying brokers and the wool-selling brokers furnished an excellent and graphic illustration of the operation of an influence…
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The New Zealand Doan and Mercantile Agency reports :—At the wool sales yesterday competition was less keen. American wools maintained their position, but other…
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At our wool sales yesterday, competition was keen. American wools maintained their position, other grades were nearly five per cent, lower, while faulty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Produce Sales. Sydney
Over 3000 bags of potatoes were submitted at auction to-day, before a large attendance of buyers. Competition was animated, and all qualities moved off briskly, at the high prices…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Dairying. Progress of Milking Machines
DAIRYMEN are beginning to realise the great benefit of the milking machines. Just now, when milk is abundant, the work is very heavy, ana the difficulty of…
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First-class Gutter cannot be made from a poor quality of cream, me matter how careful or skilful the battermaker (says a practical dairyman in an exchange). If the separator is kept clean…
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Prescott, Limited, report:—Since values have been reduced for finest quality to 104/, the local consumption shows a marked increase, and of this week's arrivals there is only a surplus of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improving Wheat
At a meeting of the Whyte-Yarrowie branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, the Hon. T. Pascoe gave an interesting address on this subject. Every year, he said, the methods of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The World's Wheat
The following is an abstract from the London "Times" of the address delivered by the President of the Agriculture Sub-section, Major P. G. Craigie, at the Winnipeg meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Market
Hill Clark and Co., report:—Owing to no settlement having been arrived at in the dispute the Belling brokers and buyers sales were not held in Sydney this week. With bettor weather conditions…
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[?] Clark, and Co. report:— We submitted attractive catalogue to-day of 2007 bales, which we practically cleared at auction. The market shows no alteration on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of "Glen Nevis" Wool
Mr F. J. R. Dight, of "Glen Nevis," Westbrook, realised 12 3/4d per 1b for crossbred fleece at Messrs Winchcombe, Carson, and Co.'s wool sales in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Up-to-date Sheep Management. Views of Men Who Know
No doubt every flock owner is agreed that the men who ought to know most of the many intricacies connected with first-class sheep management…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm & Dairy. Scours in Calves
Scours in calves, or calf cholera, in many instances differs from diarrhoea in grown animals, and has special features of its own, taking the form of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Produce Sales. Sydney
The only commodity to meet with good demand at this morning's produce auction sales was potatoes. High values were paid for choice lines of redskins, but other lines met with poor inquiry, and sellers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Essentials in Dairying
At a recent meeting of the Wirrabara branch of the South Australian. Farmers' Bureau, Mr. P. Lawson, in the course of a paper on dairying, said that no farm is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
Splendid ruin has fallen in South Australia, greatly benefiting the crops in the agricultural areas. The following applications for land have…
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