Farm Labour Organisation
The organization of labour in rural industries through from the circumstances of the case, a slower process and perhaps not as effective as in town industries, is certain to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1911
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Farming Inventions
Messrs Grifith and Hassell, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Market
Trebeck, Son and Co. report:—The local weekly sales have ceased for the season. The market finished very strong for good sorts and a recovery on faulty lots…
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Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: Strong market characterised our closing sale of the weekly series on Thursday last, competition being general and animated throughout. Although there is very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Ship Founders. Captain's Certificate Suspended. London
Captain Dunning, of the Melbourne wheat ship Ardencraig, which foundered during a fog off the coast of Scilly on January 8 last, has had his certificate suspended for three months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Plea for Wheat Elevators (To the Editor.)
Sir,—A familiar feature of the United States and Canadian landscapes is the enormous wheat elevators, which at all the great centres of wheatgrowing in those countries stand as monuments of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Singleton Argus. Thursday, March 9th. to Farmers and Dairymen
In the present issue is published, a letter from the pen of Mr John Perry, of Wilga Farm, Breeza, in which the writer furnishes some matters for the fanmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Something for Farmers and Dairymen to Consider. (To the Editor)
Sir,—Will you allow me, through medium of your paper, to call the attention of all farmers to the recently amended Federal Arbitration Act, whereby every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Anti-book Farmer
Whenever our anti-book farmers can show us better crops at a less expense, better flocks, better farms, and better owners on them than book-farmers can, we shall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Common Farm Leaks
Machinery in "open-air" sheds' rusts out more than we wear out while using it in the fields. Of course, new machinery coats considerable money, but the use of poor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Farmer's Suicide
George Tate, a middle-aged dairy farmer, lately living at Oakdale, Kangaroo Valley, committed suicide in Pine's Private Hospital, Randwick, this morning by hanging. He suffered from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Antwerp Wool Sales. Antwerp, March 9
The wool sales opened with the usual attendance of buyers, and the bidding was animated Merinos advanced 7½ per cent., crossbreds 5 per cent., and pieces 10 per cent. A total of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Muswellbrook Stoke Cattle Market
Edward Higgens, Parkinson and Coy., Muswellbrook report holding a special store cattle sale at Muswellbrook on the 7th instant, when they yarded 3000 head,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sale of Store Cattle
It will be noticed by an advertisement in another column that Mr J. Enright will Offer for sale 750 cattle at the Maltland yards on' Thursday next, the 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Antwerp Wool Sales
The wool sales have closed. A total of 5405 bales of La Plata was offered and 36-10 sold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Productive Capacity of Dairy Cattle. (From the Agricultural Gazette.) M. A. O'CALLAGHAN
We have at the Government Stud Farm at Berry representatives of all the principal dairy breeds of cattle, and records of the milk yields of these animals have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Contagious Abortion in Cattle. a Serious Question
An important meeting of dairyman, convened by the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held on the Show Ground on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cow Peas As a Farm Crop
The cow pea is adapted to a wide range of soils. A moderate amount of aridity is not fatal to its thrifty growth. Planting should be deferred until the soil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm & Dairy. Year Round Profits in Dairying
Grain farmers reap profits once a year, If there isn't a crop failure; cattle raisers have an annual crop of calves; pig men may have two litters of pigs in a year,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dairy. Building Pig Styes. Useful Hints
Too many pig-styes (states the English "Farmer and Stockbreeder") are built in a careless manner, irrespective of sanitary arrangements and air space…
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