Payment for Seed-wheat
The long-standing question of payment for seed-wheat supplied naturally engages the attention of each new Government. It appears that there is at present…
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Farming & the land, 1911
1,550 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 78
The Butter Trade. London Experts Views
The Minister of Customs has received from Messrs. Weddell and Co., the London butter exports, their annual report, in which they refer to the "great commercial loss"…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Local News. Cattle Sale at Muswellbrook
Messrs Tindale and Co., auctioneers, will conduct a sale of 700 head of store cattle at Muswellbrook on Tuesday next. A start will be made at 2 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charge of Sheep Stealing. Tantanoola Case
Police court proceedings were commenced at Milliecut, South Australia, on Wednesday against Robert Charles Edmundson, who was charged "that on or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Droving Disaster. Sheep Kill Each Other
A disaster is reported in connection with a mob, of sheep, bound from Lucknow to Avon Downs, Queensland. They had covered 30 miles out of 35 miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Stealing Case. Accused Committed for Trial
The case at Millicent, South Australia, against Robert Charles Edmondson, who was charged with having, on or about and between September 3 and December…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For Bagging Wool. a Handy Method
The accompanying illustration shows how to construct a handy apparatus for packing wool. The four legs of the sacker are made of 2 x 4in stuff, 61/2ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm & Dairy. Breaking-in the Helfers
You may often see young dairymen try to "shoo" a heifer into a bail. Nine times out of ten, after wandering aimlessly around the shed in every direction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Thursday, January 19, 1911. (Before Mr C. H. Gale,. P.m.). Straying Cattle
Several defendants pleaded guilty to allowing cattle to stray on the-streets, and were lined 5/-, 10/6 professional costs, and 3/6, costs of Court in each case…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Life on a Farm
Years later. The sister superior one day Marie-Clarie. "She had a smile which [?] like an insult." She is informed that it [?] been decided to give her a situation…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm and Field. Notes and News
All the condemned potatoes in Sydney have bean sent over to the Pyrmont wharf, and will be taken back to Tasmania. The incoming shipment is expected to be large,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool and Wheat
There were received at Darling Island Morpeth, and Newcastle depots last week 5520 bales of wool being a decrease of 3321 bales on the number that came to hand in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Fattening Poultry
The average Queensland farmer is content to endure chickens oil his farm as a sort of necessary evil. He does not realise that if he is to keep hens at all it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm House Boarders
The experiences of two city girls who wanted a thoroughly restful holiday (writes "Maud" in the "Australasian,") was not exactly what they expected. "We…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy Bull
The dairy bull should be strong in chest shoulder, and limbs, showing vigour and prepotency, good depth of body, strong back, high flank, in-curving thigh, no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Wheat
There were received at Darling Island, Morpeth, and newcastle depots last week 5520 bales of wool, being a decrease of 3221 bales on the number that came to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales
The wool sales have been postponed owing in fog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat District on Fire. Buenos Ayres, Jan 23
It is reported that the whole of the Teodolina wheat district in the province of Santa fe, is on fire. The report has not vet been confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming Inventions
Messrs Grifftith 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 4 →Weather and Crops
Since last issue there have been more showers of rain, and Saturday was cloudy and threatening, but no rain of any consequence was experienced locally…
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