Yellow Monolepta Beetle. a Pest of Maize Crops and Fruit Trees
A small monolepta beetle with yellow body and legs and a bright cerise red patch on each shoulder and a single cerise spot near the middle of each wing…
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Farming & the land, 1919
1,589 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 80
Success in Dairying
The desire to be successful naturally appeals to everybody in all fields of activity and enterprise, and stimulates everybody to put forward his best…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal [?]uperv[?] at the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A. Minister of Agriculture and are [?]d mainly on the experience of the Depa[?] No. 412. Agricultural. Clearing with Explosives. How It Reduces Labor
The problems of land clearing differ to widely that no single method can be recommended by itself, and the task of clearing an area can only be thoroghly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Cattle Poisoned
We regret to learn (says the Scone "Advocate") that Messrs. S. and A. Thrift, our well-known and industrious Parkville farmers, sustained a serious loss on Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Live Stock. Feed Wheat
In the presence of the high prices that now rule for grain of all kinds, owners of live stock might well turn their thoughts to feed wheat as a means of reducing their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Pit Silage. Once More a Live Question
The drought that has prevailed for many months in New South Wales and that in some portions of the State is still unbroken, has once more brought into prominence the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commercial. Special Store Cattle Sale. W. Bailey and Sons' Report
On account of the present weather cbnditions, only. 1021 head were yarded, the bulk being bullocks and steers, with a few yards of heifers, all of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Orchard. a Cover Crop
How a cover crop may [?] handled properly is illustrated by a story told in the "Pacific Rural Press" of what befell a fruit-grower in central California…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming Inventions
The following applications for patents connected with the Farming and Pastoral Industries have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of Dairy Cattle
Messrs S. and A. Thrift, of Parkville, in the Scone district, sustained a serious loss last week, in having 15 of their valuable dairy herd die, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cuessing Weight of Sheep
There was a guessing competition at the hospital gala day gathering as to the dressed weight of a shep. The animal when slaughtered, turned the scale at 43½lbs, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gu'ssing Weight of Sheep
The sheep donated by Mr F. J. R. Dight for the guessing competition, in connection with Hospital gala day on Saturday last, was slaughtered and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Assistance to Necessitous Farmers. Seed Wheat, Fodder, Stores, Super-phosphates. Etc. Soldier Settlers to Participate
The president of the local repatriation Executive Committee (Mr. P. 1. Addison) in in receipt of the following communication from the Returned Soldiers' Settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Reports
New Zealand Loan and M. Agency Co., Ltd., report: Our next appraisement will begin on April 9. and should be concluded the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raymond Terrace Store Cattle Sale
R. A. Elkin reports.-There was a very large yarding of cattle forward at my yards, Raymond Terrace, on Tuesday last, to a fair attendance of buyers. Considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recent Mortality Among Cattle. at Parkville
IN connection with the recent cattle mortality at Parkville, it may be of interest to the local stockowners to know that Mr Brooks, Inspector of Stock,…
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. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are [?]sed mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 411…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Winter Fodder Crops. Four Points for Coastal Farmers
In sowing winter fodder crops on the South Coast, says the Inspector of Agriculture for that district, the following conditions should be observed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Farming
From the Department of Agriculture, we are in receipt of a copy of the third edition of "Poultry Farming in New South Wales," by Mrs. James Hadington, Poultry Expert…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Live Stock. Mixed Farming. a Solution of Labor Problems
"The relation of live stock to fertility has ever been an important one. It is a generally accepted fact that the farms in a given community which have the…
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