No. 65. Agriculture. Rotation Crops. The System at Bathurst Farm
The rotation is such an important and integral part of the system practised at Bathurst Experiment Farm that it cannot fail to arouse the interest of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1912
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Farming in the East. a Few Wrinkles from China and Japan
It does anyone good to have the conceit knocked out of him once in a while. It is just as profitable to a nation as to an individual. Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Income Tax. Farmers and Settlers' Protest
Mr. Cann, the State Treasurer, was Questioned on Monday in Sydney concerning the resolution passed by the recent conference of the Farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Enemies of Drought. Irrigated and Dry Farming
More and moro every day Australian farmers appreciate the value of scientific irrigation and dry farming methods applied to the cultivation of the soil, and they realise that…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Hunter River Farms
The opportunity of acquiring farms in the Hunter River district but rarely offers nowadays when this fertile tract of country is so closely settled, so that the subdivision of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather. Many Farms Flooded
Unsettled weather, with smart showers continued on Tuesday, though there was a marked improvement compared with the decidedly moist conditions of Monday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying. Flavours in Milk
A "Farmers' Bulletin," published by an American agricultural bureau, indicates various ways in which abnormal odours and flavours may be acquired by milk…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Purchase of Clydesdales. For Government Farms. (By Cable.). London
The Clydesdale stallions Allandale, Robin Adair, and Royal Warden, with three mares, with foals at foot, have been purchased for the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steel, Iron and Wool
A complete agreement has been arrived at in regard to the Steel and Iron and Wool Tariff bills. The duty on wool has been fixed at 29 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Factory
Mr Clarke, from the Cobargo butter factory, was on a visit to Dungog last week for a few days for the purpose of becoming acquainted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day's Cattle Sale. Successful Sale
To-day, Messrs. J. A. Simpson and Co. held a special sale of cattle, when they yarded 1500 head, and sold every hoof. All the cattle yards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Homebush Markets. Slight Fall in Cattle. (By Telegraph). Sydney
Sheep.—7908 penned, values firm. Cattle.—2674 yarded, with the market down 10/- to 15/-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming Inventions
Messrs Griffith, and Hassel, Patent At[?], of 163 King-st., Sydney, report that the following applications for pa[?] connected with the farming and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool and Produce Reports
FOR week ending August 3, 1912:—Wool,—Auction sales were held in the Sydney market this week, when 6370 bales were offered, and the total…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Cattle at Homebush
Though cattle values eased slightly at Somebush last Monday, no fault could be found with the rates ruling. District stoke made some good prices. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Price of Butter
A reduction of 1d per 1d. in the price of butter has been made in Melbourne, and from Tuesday the wholesale rate for superfine western, district brands was 1s 3d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Market
John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report:—No auction sales I have been held in any of the markets of the Commonwealth this last week, but the same strong enquiry at prices fully equal to the best rates of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory
The seventh annual report issued by the directors of the Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory Ltd., is now in circulation among…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister [?]griculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve may problems concerning the land and production which would be [?]cticable to the individual producer…
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