Cow Peas. As a Green Manure Crop
The references made last week to cowpeas would be incomplete were no mention made of the utility of the crop in the orchard. The deep-rooting and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1914
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Seed Testing for Farmers
The Department of Agriculture is prepared to test vegetable and farm crop seeds for farmers. Reports will be given stating the germination…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairying. First Grade Cream
In these days it sounds somewhat superfious to say, as does Professor Guthrie, of Cornell University U.S.A., in a recent pamphlet, that "buttermaking does not…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cowpeas. a Crop of Varied Usefulness
Increasing attention is being directed to he cowpea as a summer-growing annual that a likely to the useful in various ways. It [?]rst came into use in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Remarkable Sale of Wheat
A remarkable seene of patriotic enthusiasm with witnessed at the Sydney station goods-yard, when the second truck of wheat donated by Mr. Albert Copel, of Derra Derra,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowthorne Butter Factory
The monthly report of the manager (Mr. J. S. Vindin) of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Ltd., states that owing to the early spring the quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market
Schute, Bell &Co., Ltd., report 7th September:—The wool trade is still lifeless, and prospects ahead do not seem bright judging by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of Sir S. W, Furness. London, Sept. 7. Chicago Wheat Market, Chicago. Sept. 7
The death is announced of Sir Stephen William Furness, Liberal member for Hartlepool in the House of Commons, and chairman of Furness, Withy, and Co., Lit., and The wheat market is easy, September being quoted at 1190 to 1310, and December 12120 to 12110. From Pistoin, in Italy, comes an account…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming Inventions
Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Weather and Crops
The continued dry weather is causing farmers in this district some anxiety, and the outlook is anything but reassuring. The vernal aspect of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales. London
The wool sales have been postponed to October 6th. The list closes on the 21st instant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool- and Produce Reports. FOR week ending September 5, 1914
Wool.—The wool market continues inadtive. A meeting of buyers and sellers is contemplated next week to consider the posi tion, but unless the outlook is brighter than…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Butter Industry
Giving evidence before the Tariff Commission Mr O'Callaghan, Chief Dairy Expert in the Department of Agriculture, said that in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worms Damaging Wheat
The reports of cutworms doing damage among wheat crops were lately supplemented by a letter from a farmer in the North-west who,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Wool Trade
Business on the Sydney wool market is still quiet. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing, state that they have effected a limited number of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Butter Industry. Question of Cool Storage
Fears having been expressed as to the extent to which the European war might affect the expect of butter, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. G. Ashworth, has had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Noter are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W.G. A?ford, Minister for agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 175…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Commercial. Farmers Auction Sales. Sydney
A good demand existed at the auction, and prices realised for all commodities, especially for choice, showed a [?] tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm As a Toy
"A farm is the greatest plaything in the world. There is more real thrill about little new chickens and pigs and having things grow in your garden than…
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