District Sheep
Bidding was maintained for attractive trade wethers and prime lambs at Homebush last Monday, but the trend of values for other grades was…
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Farming & the land, 1927
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Dogs Worry Sheep
Farmers in the Daroobalgie district have been suffering losses to their flocks for the past month, through sheep being worried by dogs. One…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Current Topics Dubbo Cattle Sale
At Dubbo saleyards on Tuesday, June 7, 500 station bred cattle will be offered at auction. They are a fine lot and for absolute sale. Auctioneers in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Items of Interest New Wheat Lands
It is reported that the Government' is to throw open 28,000 acres of land in the wheat belt area, north of Tullamore, which is about 20 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral Our Surplus Sheep Problem of Disposal
If another big lambing comes this year the problem of profitbaly disposing of our surplus sheep will be still more pressing. As evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Research
Stockowners will note with interest that the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) interviewed in Sydney a few days ago, again stressed the importance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weighing Fat Cattle
Weighbridge at Homebush for the weighing of fat cattle prior to auction sale, you have not eliminated the hu man factor. The buyers' knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural on the Wheat Farm Maintaining the Humus Content
The question as to whether it, is best to plough in the straw left alter harvesting or burn it is sometimes settled by the farmer deciding that in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. Hand-feeding Sheep
Some flock-owners are already hand feeling their sheep, and unless good rain falls spoil many more will be compelled to do so. In the far-western…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trundle Fat Sheep Dressed Wether 110lbs
In its issue of Friday last the Trundle "Star" says:-- Trundle is pre-emiuent this season in the Central-West in the matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Lamb Marking Castration, Ear-marking, and Tailing
The work of lamb-marking—earmarking and tailing, and castrating in case of male lambs—is, under average conditiosn, generally carried out when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural Notes. Flag Smut The Wheat Grower's Worst Enemy
Flag smut is still considered to be the most serious disease through [?] the wheat bell. It was responsible for the loss of approximately 2,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Farmhouse Soldier's Disaster (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening
A cable from Warsaw, via London, states that during the mauouvres or a machine gun company, they billeted in a farm house near Posnan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found Drowned a Milton Farmer (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening
Edwin Egold, 48, a well known farmer, was found drowned in Narrawallee Creole, near Milton, yesterday. He left home early in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral. Lamb-raising Trials. Dorset Horn and Ryeland Crosses
The results of lamb-raising trials conducted at the Bathurst Experiment Farm during 1926 were published in the May issue of the Agricultural Gazette. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Diseases of Sheep. Principally those of Dietetic Origin
In no class of live stock are preventive measures against disease more necessary than in the case of sheep, for the sheep does not show many very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Live Stock. Contagious Pleuropneumonia. Restrictions Placed on Infected Cattle
In order to make known throughout the country districts the restrictions that are placed on cattle which become affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miscellaneous. Winter Schools for Farmers, 1927
Arrangements have been made for the annual Winter School for Farmers to be held at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College from 28th June to 22nd July…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Agricultural. Storage of Oats. Galvanised Iron Silos Becoming Popular
The storage of oats in galvanised-iron silos is becoming very popular. Quite a number of such silos are now in use around Barellan and Binya, and they are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miscellaneous A. Gigantic Wheat Farm
Probably the largest area owned by the same people under wheat in the west, is that belonging to Messrs. W. Berry and Sons, of Trundle. We…
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