Factors in Breeding Dairy Stock
The possession of good stack in the herd in not everything in the breeding of profitable youngsters. Judgment is also necesssary in mating sire and dam. In some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1925
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School Farm
Another sympathiser has promised to lend a plough and horses if we can find a ploughman. Does any reader know of a reliable man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miscellaneous. Useful on the Farm. Some Formulae for Whitewash
Lime or whiting (which is carbonite of lime) is the basis of the more common mixtures for white-washing walls and ceilings of farm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying. Pasteurisation of Milk. the Processes Involved
So much has been said about the pasteurisation of milk that the subject would seem to be well nigh exhausted, yet every now and then…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Stabilisation
The Dairy Export Control Board commenced its administrative operations on the first of the month, and on Tuesday next each State secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales
At the wool sales 11,500 bales were offered. Good selection met with better competition at rather steadier prices. About throe-parts were sold,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Draft Allowance
The wool scheme, suggested by Sir John M. Higgins, in like the B.V.W.R.A. organisation that he so ably, directed during the war period…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Scheme. Rejected at Harden
A meeting hold at Harden was largely attended by local woolgrowers, representing a shearing of over 100,000 sheep. The scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →London Wool Sales. London, July 9
At the continuation wool sales, 10,500 bales were offered, and nearly all were sold. Superior offerings sold freely for the home and continental…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Chicago Wheat Prices New York, July 9
Chicago wheat quotations for July deliveries, 148 [?]; for September, 144 3/4; and for December, 146…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Wool Pack. Attitude of Grow Council
Members of the Australian "Wool Growers' Council, a Melbourne message states, are awaiting with much interest samples of the new wool pack…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Short Leased Farms Menace to Dairy Industry
Mr. L. T. M'Innes, State Dairy Expert, has expressed the opinion that one of the greatest menaces to the industry in the North Coast district is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Soviet Russia. Wheat and Worries. London, July 10
A Soviet embassy, amplifying the report that Russia proposes to spend £15,000,000 on the purchase of British machinery, says that Russia will…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →London Wool Sales. Merinos Firm: X'breds Easy. London, July 14
The continuation of the wool sales resulted in 11.093 being offered, about half the catalogue was disposed of It was a good selection. The bidding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales
Straw was sold at £5 per ton at the Alexandria market, showing an improvement of 15/, per ton. The advance was due to a general scarcity,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Pasteurisation of Milk. the Processes Involved
So much has been said about the pasteurisation of milk that the subject would seem to be well night exhausted, yet every now and then (writes G.L…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For Green Manuring. Crops to Plant
Among the most effective means of adding humus to the soil is the ploughing under of a green crop. The district and the conditions will largely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural. Science and the Farmer. the Debt of Modern Agriculture to Research
One often hears from a farmer that such and such an investigation is not practical, that it is a waste of time and money. Sir Robert Greig points out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One Factory. for Upper Hunter Dairymen
It is quite likely that before long some concrete proposals will be put forward to establish one co-operative butter factory in the Upper Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer Killed. Level Crossing Fatality
Another level crossing fatality is reported from Tenterfield. Andrew Er nest Austin, farmer, of Clifton, was attempting to drive his motor car over…
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