A Good Cattle-dog
Like the Western ranchman, Florida planters ‘round up’ their cattle as stated intervals to take account of them, says a correspondent of the ‘Common-wealth.’…
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Farming & the land, 1898
118 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 6
The Wheat Harvest
The Government Statistician's official estimate of the wheat crop places the harvest not far short of 10 million bushels, notwithstanding the effects of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wheat Crops. an Official Estimate
We have received from the office of the Government Statistician the official estimate of the wheat crop, from which it is evident that the harvest will not be far short of 10 million…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of Cattle by Live Weight
Her Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of agricultural depression say in their final report, Paragraph 568:—[?]We heartily recommend the selling…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wheat Harvest. Official Estimate. 9,745,000 Bushels— a Record. a Small Surplus Beyond Requirements
We have now received from the office of Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician, the official estimate of the wheat crop, from which it will be seen that the estimate places the harvest not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canowindra. CROPS
Stripping and harvesting is now completed here. The yield is nothing like what was [?]stimated, and 10 bushels all round for the area sown is rather above the average than otherwise. A large quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Siberian Wheat
A new departure was witnessed recently (says an English trade pape[?]) in the shape of the arrival in this country of Siberian wheat flour, and [?] the first cereal products, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney Wool Sales
THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association, report that the weekly series of sales was resumed at the Wool Exchange last Monday. There was at very large Attendance of buyers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Black Cattle of Wales
In ‘CattleBreeds and Management’ a long article is given on Welsh cattle, in which it is remarked :—While prominent exhibitors, mostly of the wealthy classes,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Prices for 250 Years
Mr. H. Allnut, England, has published an excellent diagram showing the average annual price of wheat from 1641 to 1896. The lowest price was 22s 1d per quarter in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Great Bonanza Wheat Farm
It is difficult to present the idea of the bigness of these farms to the person whose preconceived notion of a farm is a little checker-board lying upon a hillside or in a valley. Seven…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dying Sheep Skins
Aniline Dyes: I take for granted that the skins are required to be dyed for rugs, carriage covers, and such like purposes to which sheep skins are generally put. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat and Flour
The following letter appeared in the HERALD recently:— “Sir,—There appears to be a difference of opinion between the city and country millers as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experiments with Wheat. Large Versus Small Grains
An interesting experiment has been carried out at the Experiment Station, Capelle Nord, France, to determine the relative advantages of large and small wheat. Equ[?]l weights of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Exportation of Wheat
FIGURES recently published by Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. do not give much hope of immediate profit on a shipment of wheat, supposing that this should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops for Ensilage
A gentleman who has visited America, in recounting his observations, remarks that green maize is considered the best crop for silage in America and Canada, cut quite green. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Farming
WHAT a Victorian writer in the journal quoted above has to say regarding that colony, is equally applicable to New South Wales. It has not been many years since water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spider Farming
Perhaps the most peculiar agricultural industry is that of spider-Wining. There are not many spider farms, in existence. We have only heard of two (says a London…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested
To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested
To be set upon, by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of fife without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of Such, trhough,…
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