Farm & Dairy. the Cultivator
The corn plant will not thrive among weeds, nor in a hard packed, dry soil (says an experienced corn grower in "American Agriculturist.") The object…
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Farming & the land, 1909
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Farm Produce Sales. Sydney
The first of the second season's brown Spanish onions from the Wellington district were submitted for auction this morning and disposed of for 6/7 and 7/1, while silverskins were neglected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Buildings
Shake half a bushel of unslaked lime with boiling water; cover during the process to keep in steam; strain the liquid through a fine sieve or stainer, and add to it a peck…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farm and Field. News and Notes
Mr. Waddell states that everything possible is being done by the Chief Commissioner to cope as far as possible with the harvest. The following applications for land have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Dairy Bull
The bull at the head of the herd should not only be pure bred, but should be a good pure-bred. The time has gone by for paying high prices for animals simply…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Progressive Dairying
Mr. G. W. Robinson, Roseneath, Casino, writes:—With a view to overcoming the labour trouble I determined last year to go in for machine milking, and I feel so…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →English Farming Co-operation
From time to time during the last twenty years I have been asked to leave my work in Ireland ami talk to meetings of English formers upon agricultural co-operation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Butter Market
Prescott, Limited, report:—All brands of [?] est quality, which are in demand for local sumption, are being sold at 100, but as [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market
Hill, Clark, and Co. report :—We of[?] a catalogue of useful wool on Saturday without any particularly good lines. market as compared with a week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and Settlers' Association
The adjourned meeting of the Woodville branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will be hold in the Woodville schoolroom on Wednesday evening next for the election of officers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Cattle Sale
As will be seen by advertisement in this issue, Messrs Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., auctioneers, will conduct a special cattle sale at the shire yards on Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For Blown Cattle
Now that clover and herbage are so plentiful, landholders are troubled with stook becoming blown. The "Agricultural Gazette" for this month gives the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory
During the past week the above factory manufactured 7 tons 14 cwts butter, being an increase of 1 ton over the previous week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Queer Case. Were Those Wet Sheep ?
ONE of the strangest cases which has occupied local attention for a long time was shorn of its interest on Wednesday last by its sudden termination…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Visit to Hawkesbury College Letters to a Farmer
Dear Old Bak-Blox Bill:—You are one of the old-school farmers, I know, and haven't any patient with modern, new-?gled nation about college education for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Muswellbrook Cattle Market
Pitt. Son and Badgery. Ltd. report having held a sale on account of Mr. John Lee at Muswellbrook on Wednesday. October 27. There was a small attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle-driving in Ireland
Ninety cattle and 250 sheep were driven from a farm into Galway. Eight arrests have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales
Schute. Bell, and Co. Ltd, report:-The sales re-opened on Monday on a firm bases, prices being about on a level with the best rates current last week. United States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meeting of Dairymen
Owing to the absence of the Mayor and the majority of Aldermen, the usual meeting of the Morpeth Council was not hold last evening. At the last meeting of the council a circular was received…
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