Profits in Pig Farming
At a meeting of farmers held recently at Golden Grove, South Australia, Mr A. D. Robertson gave a profit and loss account of pig…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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Farmers’ and Settler’ Association
The annual meeting of the Cowra branch of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Assoc[?] look place at the School of [?] Saturday afternoon, when there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Market Reports Wool Report
Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report -- A keen demand still exists for all descriptions, but in view of local auctions being resumed next week, holders are…
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Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 10th April: Interest in wool circles is centred in the revival of auction sales…
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Winchcombe, Carson and Co. wired as on Wednesday as follows:—Rabbit skins will be very firm during the incoming winter. At to-day's sales the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Parkes Dairy Co
The amount paid to suppliers for the month of March by the local Dairy Company was £561. The leading positions on the list were held by…
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Mile. Lideal (a poet): "What a marvellous and beautiful spectacle it is to see the heavy heads of wheat rising and falling at the caprice of the gentle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy. Hints From Nebrasra
The cow end of the dairy business is the big end, and the most important. Here is where improvement is most needed, and where it seems slowest to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Field. Waste in Seed Sowing
It is said of a famous mustard maker that he made a fortune—not out of mustard consumed, but out of that left uneaten on the plates. In like manner if…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Experiment
Mr G. L. Sutton, Government wheat experimentalist, in last issue of the "Agricultural Gazete," supplies the results of the" wheat trials…
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Yesterday we (Parkes "Examiner") had the pleasure of a conversation with Mr Alexander McPherson of Wycheproof, Victoria, who is a brother…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peak Hill Show. The Sheep Section
THE local P.A. and H. Association have decided to divide the Sheep Section at the annual Show into three classes, viz, (1), for sheep not to be housed or…
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ABOUT 4 o'clock on Saturday morning Mr. Joseph Hull, on the Talbragar River, Dubbo, lost 400 tons of hay, a harvester, reaper aud binder, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Parkes Dairy Company
At a meeting of the directors of the Parkes Dairy Co on Wednesday Mr D F Reid, of Gulingar, was appointed a manager of the local factory, the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dehornihg Cattle
There is no better way of removing the horns from cattle than by sawing them off, although the process is very much slower than when the horns are removed with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Amd Field. Fertilisers for Farm Crops
From a bulletin by Mr Arthur Goss on Fertilisers for Farm Crops, issued by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, the following extract is taken:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Dairy. ORIGINAL ARTICLES.[All Rights Reserved]harvesting and Storing Sweet Potatoes
THE tubers should be dug up when the soil is dry, and care should be taken to avoid cutting or bruising the tubers, as an injured tuber does not keep well when stored…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. Tuesday, April 23rd. Before Mr Gibson, P.M. Alleged Larceny of Cattle
Elizabeth Loo Long was charged that she did steal one heifer calf, the property of Arthur Bryan T[?]iggs, of Yass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy. When Cows' Teats Leak
Mr D. Hutcheson, Acting Director of the Department of Agriculture, Cape Colony, in answering a dairy farmer, whose well-bred Shorthorn cow was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Planting
Preparations are now in order for the planting which is to take place during the coming season. Not the least important matter in connection with…
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