The Wool Sales
At the wool solos prices of fleeces of the clips mentioned were:—Bundure, highest 14d, average 12d; Midkin, 14½d, 12½d ; Edgeroi. 12½d, 10½d ; Goonal, 12½d, 12 3/8d; Isis Downs, 15d, 13¼d;…
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Farming & the land, 1909
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Influence of Fertilisers on Wheat
A study of the influence of fertilisers upon the weight per bushel of wheat and the bulletin from the Minnesota Experiment character of the ker nels is reported in a Station, published by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMERCIAL Sydney Wool Sales. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. REPORT
The tentative resumption of the Sydney wool auctions resulted in our placing before the buyers the catalogue which, in the ordinary course,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm & Dairy. Cow Testing
The South Coast Cow Testing Association has now commenced operations in real earnest. Last year the business had to be hung up for a while, because the season was severe. Rains have fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canadian Naval Policy. Farmers Dissent. London, Friday Afternoon
A large farmers' association in Canada has adopted a resolution viewing the Government's naval proposals with grave misgivings, fearing that they may provoke war, and recommending…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying Around Scone. Milking Machine Room
Milking machines have caught on in the Scone district as the result of Mr. David Hall, Parkville, having proved them to be a thorough success. For the third season Mr. Hall is using…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Visit to Hawkesbury College. Letters to a Farmer. Iii
Dear Old Bak-blox Bill,—The H.A.C. has become famous the world over among poultry fanciers for its extended and extensive tests of laying hens. You don't think much about poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Field. News and N0tes
"The Australian" gives a preliminary estimate of the Victorian wheat yield as 25,000,000 bushels, an average of 12 bushels to the acre. This, after allowing 8,25,000 bushels for State requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Plant Food Is the Farmer's Bank
professor Roberts, an eminent American authority On agriculture has expressed himself as follows:—The vast store of plant food is the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers at the Rural Camp School an Interesting Meeting
On Saturday night, the organising, officer, W. Roberts, B.A., invited the farmers, dairymen, factory managers, and other Gentlemen who have received the Camp…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DAIRYING v. GRAZING. Milking Machine Test
Messrs Clift Bros., Breeza, the well known pastoralists, are going in exten sively for dairying. They are firm be lievers in the Milking Machine as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales
There was a good selection at the sales, and competition for good wools was well maintained. Faulty and average were occasionally in buyers' favour. Prices realised were:—Goonambil. 13 1/2d…
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The season's wool came forward freely during last week. The total number of bales carried was 45,848, this being an increase of 3933 as compared with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smut in Wheat
The following simple remedy is one of several methods advocated by Professor T W. Kirk, New Zealand Government Biologist, for prevention of smut in wheat:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Haulage. Wheat Is a Reasonable Price?
The attention of the Railway Department was drawn to the information from Newcastle to the effect that the prohibition imposed last Thursday still remained in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy Notes Economic Milk Production
I take it most people are in the dairy business to make money, and, in my experience, few are milking cows for pleasure (said Professor Haecker, addressing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sales to Be Held Next Week
MESSRS. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., wool-brokers, of Sydney, wired us this (Tuesday) afternoon : — "At meetings of the Wool-brokers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes for Farmers
The farmer who tries to run his farm in these days of keen competition without keeping account of his receipts and expenditure also other data relative to stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Produce Sales. Sydney
Notwithstanding to-day being the and of [?] month, competition among a large attendance of buyers at the auction sales was animated, and prices realised for all commodities were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gunnedah Cattle Market
Lowcock and King yarded 800 mixed cattle for auotion at their yards, Gunnedah, on 26th instant, to a fair attendance of buyers. Biddings were…
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