Wool and Wheat
The wool arrivals at Darling Harbour, Newcastle, and Morpeth for last week totalled 2600 bales, which is an increase of 940 bales on the figures for the some week last year. During the…
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Farming & the land, 1910
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Sale of Prize Sheep
Mr. E. W. Sparke disposed of a number of prize sheep, the property of Mr. Jas. O'Donnell, at the Campbell's Hill saf? yards this afternoon. The sheep consisted of cross…
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At last meeting of directors of the above company, Mr. G. A. Mackay was elected managing director in the stead of Mr. F. A. Hooke,…
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The butter market shows a falling ten dency. Choicest is down 2s. per cwt., being quoted at 98s. Other grades pro portionately…
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Hill, Clark, and Co., Limited report :—The chief point of interest in regard to wool is the sales to be held during the week, when offerings will be fairly large for the off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A School for Farmers
Mr. W. H. Potts, the principal of the Hawkesbury College, hit upon a happy idea! when he induced the Minister of Agriculture to invite farmers to take a kind of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Experimental Farm
The old established agricultural districts of the Hunter Valley have a very legitimate complaint against successive Ministers controlling the Agricultural Department, in that while many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales. The Farmers' Friends
Nature has provided the Australian farmer and fruit-grower with many ene mies in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Several injurious…
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Trebeck Son and Co., report:—Local auction that have been held this week show good words hold their own, faulty lines show some west[?] but the demand is strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letter to the Editor. Irish Blight and Potato Crops
Sir,—In your issue of yesterday, referring to Irish Blight in potatoes, you write that "it is understood that the disease has also unfortunately appeared in the crops at Dunmore and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destructive Frosts. Cotton Crops Ruined. London, April 26
Frost has killed half the cotton crop in Georgia (U.S.A.). As the cotton must be replanted, prises, for seed have reached a record figure in New Orleans. There is also a big jump in the price…
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London wool sales Thomas and Co.. Bux[?] Bon[?] and Co, and chas. Balm and Co[?] 9590 bales. There was a good aver[?] selection, including 6803 bales from New…
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The New Zealand L. and M Agency, Co., Ltd., report (by wire):—At our sale yesterday we offered a good selection of greasy wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moisture in Butter. Imported From Adelaide. London, April 28
[?], produce merchants, of [?], were yesterday fined [?]2 and one [?] for importing from Adelaide by the [?] butter containing 18.3 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Sales
At the wool sales on Thursday prices of the fleeces of clips mentioned were:— Byro, highest 11d, average 101d; Panikin, 12d, 101d; Omarama, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Apotheosis of Wool Work
Knitted wool garments for hats and gowns are the latest eccentricity of fashion. There is something very early Victorian about their appearance. They suggest horsehair, sofas,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Mistress of Elm Tree Farm. Chapter 1
"Love!" said Miss Elizabeth Murgatroyd, with a countenance more suggestive of lemon juice than of the tender, passion, "Love at five-and-forty! I'm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney
A large supply of varied produce, com-prising 67 consignments, was submitted at auction to-day before a small attendance of buyers. Competition was extremely dull,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sale of Dairy Herd
A remarkably successful clearing-out sale of high-class dairy cattle was held at Mowbray, near Paterson, on Friday, when Messrs Carr Bros, disposed of Messrs, W. A. and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm and Field News and Notes
The Victorian Minister of Agriculture criticises the Hawkesbury Agricultiral College, which, he says, is run as a "show place." "Dookie," Mr. Graham remarks,…
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