Plant Breeding on Farms Save Promising Plants
The Plant Breeder of the Agricultural Department is anxious to get into touch with farmer or sons of farmers of who have [?] interest in the subject of plant breeding…
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Farming & the land, 1917
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Dairying. Breeding for High Efficiency. a Better Producing Strain
According to a Professor Eckies, of [?]souri, U.S.A., the constant cutting out of poor cows—though good in itself—will not materially improve the production of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Those Notes are issued erary week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Qrabarae, Minister or Agriculture, and are based malniy on experience of the Department. No. 314. Agricultural. Factors Influencing Fertility. Chiefly Physical
So much is said and written in discussions of agricultural subjects about the quantity of nitrogen, potash, phosphoric acid and lime contained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Production
No better indication can be given of the uniformly good season the State has experienced than the regular increase which has taken place monthly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Co-operative Butter factory. at Bullahdelah. Opening Ceremony
Thursday last was a red letter day in the history of Bullahdelah, when the new co-oporative butter factory was officially opened. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Great National Duty. Cultivation of Wheat
At a meeting of wheatgrowers held at [?] the [?] of the local branch of the Farmers and Settlers Association [?] attended by Mr. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bellevue Farm
Mr. O. K. Young will offer at. auction in the auction in the estate of the late C. F. Volimer on, the property, Bellevue, Paterson River, on Thursday next, a high-class farm of 34…
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On Wednesday, 23rd, inst, Mr. R. A. Elkin will offer at auction at his rooms, Ray-mond Terrace, a magnificent lucerne and dairy farm, known as Mayfield, Milter's…
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At Campbell's Hill on Monday next, 21st instant, at 12.30 p.m., Mr. J. Enright will submit to auction for, Mr. Henry Green a rich agricultural farm of 22 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diseased Cattle
The local Stock Inspector (Mr G. Freeman) has been kept busy lately seizing and destroying diseased stock. At the Pastures Protection Board…
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The important industry of wheat production is, it is satisfactory to note, receiving considerably increased attention in this district. Mr R. D…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming Inventions
Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castloreagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Supplies
Representatives of the principal butter importers in Perth waited on Sir John Forest and asked his assistance to avert a butter famine. Mr. Guy chairman of the…
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[?] help the farmer in his seed selection. The prize winners in the open passes would keep a farmer poor if he [?] them. For the simple reason…
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The system of judging at our shows does not help too farmer in his seed selection. The prize winners in the open classes would keep a farmer poor if he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool. the Question of Control
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write —50,000 bales of wool will be offered during the appraisements which commenced in Sydney last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Crop Gloom. Hope of Encouraging Growers by Higher Prices
The prussian Minister o Agriculture, Baron von, Schorlemer, who has won his struggle with Herr Batockl and the new Prussian Food Com-mission, gave the Prussian Lower Chamber a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Punishing German Farmers
The "Cologne Gazette" reports that in some half-dozen rural districts all the churns, have been officially sealed by the authorities because the farmers and landowners did not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dagworth Farm
The well-known agricultural farm at the rear of St. Peters, Dagworth, containing 22. acres, 17 of which are at present under lucerne, will be offered for sale by auction at Campbell's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plant Breeding on Farms
The Plant Breeder of the Agricultural Department is anxious to get into touch with farmers or sons of farmers who have sufficient…
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