Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land
These Notes issued every week, under the personal supervise of the Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 505…
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Farming & the land, 1921
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Viticultural. to Safeguard the Grape Crop. Importance of Spraying for Downy Mildew
The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. F. Dunn, desires that the attention of vignerons be directed to the importance of taking precautions against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Training Farmer Junior. Tasmanian School Children Learn Fruit Packing
The fruit division of the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture has commenced classes for the instruction of school children in the correct methods of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. the Cheese Mite. a Pest With Remarkable Habits
To the average consumer of cheese the cheese mite is merely an object of curiosity, though many suppose that it is only to be found on a good cheese. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Wheat
In the city on a holiday that draws to a close this week (writes "J.J.S." in the course of some "Sydney Gossip" in the Cowra "Guardian") is Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wheat Plots
Though in some cases the yields in the wheat variety trials conducted by the Department of Agriculture in the Central Western district were lower…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Payments
The first payment of half a crown in connection with the Commonwealth guarantee regarding the wheat harvest is to be made to farmers on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Important Dissolution Sheep Sale
Attention is drawn to the advertisement of Messrs. Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd., auctioneers, Orange, in this issue notifying the sale by…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wheat. Farmers' Half-crown. Promise of the State Government
It is apparent now that the N.S.W. Government is not prepared, or is unable to honor their promise' to the wheat farmers of this state, to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Freights. Big Collapse
The unsettled state of the shipping industry (says the "Herald") is causing owners the most grave concern. There is a big glut of tonnage, cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Lorries for Wheat Haulage
Owing to the scarcity of carriers, a large amount of wheat is lying in the fields at the mercy of the weather, and to help producers out of their…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →General News. a Huge Mob of Cattle
On Sunday last one of the largest mobs of cattle that has passed over the local common for many a year arrived, and their appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Agricultural. Flag Smut of Wheat. Methods of Control
The sports of flag smut (the fine black dusty matter which is observable on crushing a leaf of an infected wheat plant) can reach the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Sanitary and Lasting. How to lay Concrete Foor for Dairy Premises
For all general purposes as applied to dairy premises, the concrete floor will be found most advantageous, being preferable to bricks, flagstones, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advance to Farmers
The question has cropped up of the steps proposed to betaken to obtain payment from farmers of advances made by the Rural…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farmer and His Horse
Mr. G. B. Duff, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in response to an appeal to the country farmers, for funds to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Big Live Stock Prices. Farmers' & Graziers' Co. Pushing to the Front
The Secretary of the Farmers' and Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes:—"Although we have not been handling fat stock for any great length of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wheat
Wheat is coming in freely now that some of the farmers are finished. About thirteen thousand bags have been delivered up to date. A very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd report on 12th January 1921—In the absence of public auctions business has been confined…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep-killing Dogs
Some time last year a couple of notorious sheep-killing dogs paid visit to Nyrang Creek and the Lockwood road, near Canowindra, killing a large…
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