Winter School for Farmers
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Dunn) has approved, the usual winter school for farmers being held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from June 21…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1921
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Butter Pool Position
Messrs. C. J. McRue, (President of the P. P. Union) and J. Mackey, both members of the Queensland and N.S. Wales Butter Pool Committee, returned from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Market. Sales in Melbourne
Although sales will be held in Geelong next week, the May series closed in the Melbourne market on Thursday, Catalogues totalling 4664…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for Tide Man on the Land
These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of he Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Profits and Losses. Who Suffered Most?
Winchcombe, Carson, Limited, report:—The rise of 5 to 10 per cent. in wool values at London sales is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales. Keen Buying. London, May 11
There was an active demand at the London wool sales to-day, and foreign buyers competed keenly. The offerings of privately owned wools totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Industry. South Coast Conditions. Select Committee's Review
The select committee of the Legislatlve Council, which has spent the last week taking evidence from Kiama to Bega, and thence to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Digger Influence in Farming
"Can you tell me the best method of making hay from cow-peas?" The foregoing inquiry reached the Department of Agriculture recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying. Trues Worth of a Cow
The discoveries of the Babcock tester are so arresting that it seems inevitable that even the least progressive dairyman must eventually…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral. Comparative Values. Of Some Auxiliary Sheep Feeds
While Oats form a very good grain feed for sheep, they do not appear to equal maize: as a sole food, owing to their larger husk content, they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Position. Pool Committee's Decision
The Queensland and New South Wales Butter Pool Committee in Brisbane, considered the position caused by the collapse of the London market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sheep Fly. Ravages at Warren
Sheep-owners in the Warren district in all their experiences have not found the sheep fly pest so bad as it is at present…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Cattle Stations Talk of American Deal
A message from Cloncurry (Q.) states that there was a widespread rumor in the Gulf districts that an American meat export company is taking over the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales. London, May 18
NIne thousand bales were offered by Bawra, and there was a brisk clearance of the wool at the highest rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Sales Japan Buying Freely
There was a large attendance of buyers at the Sydney wool sales on Thursday, and from the moment the first lot was offered the sales went with a swing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land
These Notes [?] every week [?] the [?] of the [?] of [?] [?] Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Gristing. Figures for New South
According to a statement tabled in the House-of Representatives, New South Wales in 1917 gristed into flour 18,520,000 bushels of wheat. In 1918…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Overdraft. Reduced to £6,166,000
The aggregate bank overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board was reduced from £7,576,000 to £6,166,000 in the week ended May 2…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →World's Record. Australia's Champion Shorthorn. Milk and Butter Fat
A world's record production in milk and butter fat for the breed has been achieved by the Darb[?]lara Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba XV. In 365…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Sales. Auctions in Melbourne. Prices Advance
For the first time in the history of Australia wool was sold at auction in Melbourne on Monday at a minimum reserve fixed by the…
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