The Sheep Fly
The ravages of the sheep fly, which have been gradually extending year by year, are now assuming the proportions of a…
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Farming & the land, 1917
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District Sheep and Lambs
Supplies were down to zero at the Homebush sheep and lamb sales last Monday and prices were on very buoyant levels. Mr. Geo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Year's Wheat. Federal Arrangement
A meeting of the Wheat Board was held in Melbourne on Friday afternoon, Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister, being present. At the conclusion, Mr. Hughes stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Appraising the Wool. Bradford Expert Appointed
John Bridge & Co., Ltd., realising that the conditions under which the value of wool is being arrived at by the appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Appraisement. a Fresh Greasy Record
Included in the appraised catalogues submitted on Thursday last was a greasy merino wool, branded JAD over Glen Innes over New England, nine bales of the first combiner w…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame. M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the, Department. No. 301. Agricultural, Varieties of Wheat. The Department's Recommendations for the Ensuing Season
The annual conference of officers of the Department of Agriculture (particularly managers of experiment farms and inspectors of agriculture in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying. Cream of Inferior Quality. How to Avoid It
"Regardless of trouble," saya the Dairy Export in commending to the dairy farmers of New South Wales the following points in the care and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Poultry. Planning a Poultry Farm. Systematic Arrangement Necessary
The average poultry farm has been a thing of small beginnings, usually jumbled together without any definite plan or objective beyond keeping as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying. the Dairy Industry. Its True Position and Its Dangers
"1. The future, of the New South Wales dairying industry, and probably of that of Australia, depends on the oversea export, of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Raymond Terrace Cattle Sale
Mr. R. A. Elkin will offer at auction at his yards, Raymond Terarce, to-morrow (Tuesday), at one o'clock sharp, 250 head of store cattle and fat springers. Motor cars…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial. Muswellbrook Cattle Market
Edward Higgens, Parkinson, and Co. report having yarded 1280 cattle on the 6th instant, selling 1120 at an all round average of £9/14/. Buyers were in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Co-op. Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting
The twenty-third half-yearly meeting of shareholder of the above was hold on Saturday last. As the meeting was "on time" and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News. Dungog Cattle Sale
At the Dungog yards on Friday next, Messrs. D. Abbott and Co. will offer at auction 400 head of store cattle and a number of fat cows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Letter. Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited. Singleton
The seventeenth annual meeting of Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was held on Saturday. Mr. D. Faulkner (chairman of directors), presided over a small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm at Lochend
In this issue Mr. O. K. Young advertises particulars of a rich agricultural farm of 12 1/2 acres at Lochend, together with cottage and vacant allotments, to be offered for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land for Settlement. Homestead Farm
Taree land district, 565 1/2 acres in one block, being portion 34, parish of Curreeki, county of Gloucester,; 25 to 30 miles from Taree and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Annual Meeting
The 17th annual meeting of the Singleton Central Co-opcrativo Dairy Co., Ltd., was held at the factory on Saturday. The attendance was small,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 4 →Special Cattle Sale
On Tuesday next at Muswellbook yards Messrs Weaver and perry, Ltd., will hold a special cattle sale at which 1000 head of well-bred store cattle will be offered at auction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dirt Substituted for Wheat
For ways that are dark Bret Harte's heathen Chinee is not it in it with the meek and lowly peace loving and gentle Hun…
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