Pickling Seed Wheat. Strength of the Solution
In the recent article under this homing on the pickling of seed wheat for smut it was mentioned that experiments were being conducted in the Department's…
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Farming & the land, 1912
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Dairying. the Best Milking Qualities
In the April "Gazette" the Dairy Expert points out that in developing a breed of dairy cattle from an unimproved race, a fair percentage of inferior beast for a number…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Apprentices. Vacancies at Government Farm Schools
The Department's new scheme for training farm apprentices is now in full going order, and apprentices are being trained at various Government Farms. There are still…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Store Cattle
The drought in the north and northwest is causing many owners of store stock to put them under the hammer, as they find a difficulty in getting grass for them, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market
The usual weekly report of Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Sydney, is in the following terms:—The wool market is quiet in all Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Farms for Sale
Messrs Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., will sell by auction, at the Farmers' Central Markets, on Tuesday, 11th June, three splendid dairy farms,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Singleton Letter. the Season and Crops
"Three weeks of this month have passed away, and the rainfall registered has been only 39 points. This is not nearly sufficient moisture, though the district is in splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irrigation Farms. First of Murrumbidgee Blocks. 400 Farms Available
IN a very short time the first subdivision will take place of the Murrumbidgee irrigation lands. About 20,000 acres will be cut up into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming Inventions
Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys 163 of King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street Melbourne, report that the following applications and for pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weather and Crops
So far the month has been dry. Only 39 points of rain have fallen, and this was not nearly as much moisture as the district needs though the condition of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Store Cattle Sale
There was a large attendance of buyers at Messrs, Tindale and Co.'s store cattle sale at the local saleyards yesterday, and satisfactory prices were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool and Produce Reports
FOR week ending May 18, 1912:—Wool.—Clearances at last auctions were so complete that little wool was left over for private treaty. There…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ratine of, Farm Lands
The following communication has been addressed to Major Nicholson, member for Maitland, by the Under-Secretary for Public Works:—"Public/Works Department…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Market
John Bridge and Co., Ltd., reprot:— In the absence of public sales in the local market this week matters in the wool trade have be a fairly quiet, the transactions being confined t[?] locally secured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Market
Winchcombe, Corson, Ltd., report:—The wool market is without change. An excellent demand exists, but supplies are strictly limited, this circumstance alone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pastoral Industry in New South Wales
A discussion on any phase of the great pastoral industry of the Stale Is always interesting. Wool, of course, is the main feature of the primary industries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and Goats. the Victorian Unemployed
A deputation from the ranks of the Melbourne unemployed waited on Thursday upon the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Watt), to ask assistance of the Government in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Note are Issued every week, ander the personal supervision of the Hon, J. L. Treffid, of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve nun problems concerning the land anil production which would be Impracticable to the Individual producer…
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