Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 4
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal superrision of the Hon. J. I. Trefle, 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 be impracticable to the individual producer…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 5
The unharvested crops in many districts, especially about Leipsig, have been ruined owing to the unseasonable weather. Fruit has also suffered severely…
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Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 4
The subject of "farm management," as it applies to the rotation of crops, receives very careful and thorough attention in several of the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 9
"The Useless Horn" is the title of the following article by Rinckwitz in the "country Gentleman": This is an age of operations. Whether…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle Maiming
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5
There cases of cattle maiming, have been reported from North and South Staffordshire recalling the notorious Wyrley outrages of several years ago…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5
At the Maitland yards on Thursday next [?] J. Enright will offer for sale by auction [?] head of store cottle [?]…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 4
Three important auction sales of store cattle are announced to be held on Tuesday next, at the Scone yards, Messrs. J. A. Simpson and Co. will yard 2500 head,…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 1
JOHN BRIDGE AND Co, LTD., REPORT: Another quiet week has beene experlenecd in the wool trade on necount of the small output from Mm fellmongering and scouring…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Cattle King. a Record Sale
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 13
The clays of romance in live stock dealing are not ended. High prices spur to great enterprises, and as a result of one of these spurts Mr. Sydney Kidman, of Adelaide, has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes, for the Man on the Land
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefld, 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…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 7
Another quiet week has been experienceed in the wool trade on account of the small output from the feilmongering and scouring works, although any…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Protein in Fodders
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 9
A writer in the United States contents that one of the main difficulties of dairy farmers is a lack of knowledge of the food ratio of the various fodder crops. He says:…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Farmers and Settlers' Needs
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 14
Last week the Farmers and Settlers' Association, through its representatives, brought under the notice of Mr. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, several different matters, upon…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural Sowing Maize. Other Points Worth Knowing
Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 2
One of the considerations that the maize-grower must regard is the distance by which the plants should be separated. It depends on several…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 6
From an enterprising Company such as Dalgety & Co., Ltd., one naturally looks for the most up-to-date. In the "Gane" Milking Machine (handled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Practical Economics for Farmers
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 14
Not ninny years ago it would have been regarded as preposterous, if not downright foolish, to advocate the management of a farm as if it were a factory. But (says…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 14
There is nothing like farmyard manure to retain moisture in the soil and to prevent the crop from dying from want of this necessary substance. Farmyard manure…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 11
In the course of a lecture to dairy-farmers recently, the chief dairy expert of this Department emphasised once more the absolute necessity for cleanliness in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cowpeas in the West. Yields on Farmers.' Experiment Plots
Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 2
It is not only at Nyngan Demonstration, Farm that it has been shown that cowpeas can be grown with success in the West…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 September 1912 · page 2
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory. Ltd., was held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on Saturday afternoon, Mr, J. J…
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