Sydney Wool Market
WINCHCOMBE, CARSON LTD. REPORT We Bold 6400 bales to-day (Thursday) The market ruled strong at best rates obtained previously this week. Fine wools…
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Farming & the land, 1912
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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. h. Trefic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would he Impracticable to the individual producer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agriculture. Scientific Cultivation and Drought
The greatest evils of drought are due to ignorant treatment of the soil. The farmer who has bean practising a haphazard system of soil cultivaton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Muswellbrook and Its Environments. Rose Vale Dairy. Property of Charles McTAGGART
Whatever may have been written years ago of the paramount [?]nportance to Australia, of the production of wool and the breeding of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dairy. Treatment of Pigs. Most Suitable Food
In a paper road before the Railton Branch Hoard of Agriculture, Tasmania, Mr John Donovan gave some useful hints on pig breeding and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teacher's Summer School. Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Dairying in Foreign Countries
Mr. H. Potts, continuing his lecture on "Dairying in Foreign Countries," said:— At the inception of the Pure Milk Supply Company, very stringent regulations and very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. Notes and News
It is intended to make the first subdivision of the Barren Jack irrigation areas available for settlement in April. Mr. A. Speer, of woodhouselee Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying at Home and in Foreign Lands
The above Was the subject dealt with by Mr.W. Potts, Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, on Friday last. The lecture was interspersed with lantern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying. Lice on Cows
Lice on cows seem to be troublesome in many of the dairying districts, judging from the number of inquiries received by the Department regarding the pest. The long-nosed…
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Hill, Clark, and Co. Limited, report:—We held our first sale since the holidays on Tuesday, when we submitted 2024 bales to auction. The bulk of the offerings was composed of medium wools and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Who was the Founder of our Wool Industry? Remarkable Letters. 100 Years Old
The question as to who was the real founder of our wool-growing industry, which now yearly brings Australia so many millions of wealth,…
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John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:—On Monday we brought forward our twelfth catalouge if the season, consisting of 6308 bales, including some very nice soft New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Straw Losses
A bush fire started on Dirty Creek, a, few miles from Carcoar, on Monday afternoon, and for a. short time spread rapidly, but was extinguished, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable New& London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 24
At the wool sales the following prices, were realised for the undermentioned clips: —Mortiock, highest, 11d, average 9 3-8d; Boolcarrol, 12d, 10 3/4d; Bowen Downs, 13d,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Value of Cow's Tail. Farmer's Compensation Claim
As the result of an outbreak of pleuro pneumonia in several dairy herds at yanna-than. Victoria, a year age the veterinary offices of the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warrah Farms
The Murrurundi land boards sat on Tuesday to deal with the warrah farms. The following withdrawals were allowed and a the of £5 was imposed in each case.—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letter to the Editor. Farmers and Settlers' Association
Sir,—"There is no wisdom in crossing a 'ridge till you come to one." This is the comewhat paradoxical plea of many's farmer who is invited to join a brunch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Dairyman's Loss
The residence of Mr John Millor, dairyman, on the outskirts of Quirindi, was totally destroyed by fire on. Saturday night. Most of the occupants wore…
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