On the Land Pastoral Improvement of Pastures Top Dressing
Graziers are taking more and more interest in the top-dressing of pastures. It is calculated to make it possible to carry say, two sheep where…
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Farming & the land, 1927
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Pastoral Notes 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 Barelian and Bihya, and they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grazing Grain Crops
It is a common practice to turn sheen on to growing wheat or oats, or on to Cultivated land where there is a selfsown crop, and to leave the sheep there…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Judging of Wheat
At the forthcoming show wheat will be judged by the following scale of points: Weight per bushel, 1 point for every 4oz. above 60 lb,--30 points…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horse or Tractor? Horse More Profitable on Wheat Farms
The N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, in its weekly notes, writes:-- Duffing the last few years tractors have been used on many wheat farms…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and Settlers Wyalong District Council Meeting at West Wya-Wyalong
At the District Council meeting of the Wyalong and District Farmers and Settlers' Association, held in the Literary Institute on Thursday, over…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Report. Secure Future
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report: If the outlook for the growing of wool could be viewed with the same confidence as the future for the selling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral. Fat Lamb Raising. Good Feed in Abundance is Essential
Pastoralists--those who raise fat lambs in particular--have begun to realise that it pays to devote a good deal of attention to the improvement of their…
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. the Orchard. Non-setting of Fruit. Lessons to be Learned from Last Season's Failure
Non-setting of fruit has troubled orchardists generally during the present season, and explanations of the failure have been given some prominence. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep Stealing Case
Alfred Caesar Jones, station overseer, was tried at Cootamundra Quarter Sessions on a charge of stealing 100 sheep, the property of J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stimulus of Super Improved Pastures. Sheep Stock Trebled
That it is posaiblo to increase the carrying capacity of good sheep country two or threefold by judicious top-dressing has been further…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miscellaneous Pastoral. a Valuable Introduced Grass Phalaris Bulbosa Again Proves its Worth
The latest repent of success with this grass comes from Mr. H. Weller, of Ben Lomond, who planted, an area with Phalaris bulbosa in July, 1926,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Top-dressing for Pastures. Four Sheep to the acre in Parkes District
Many farmers and others who took part in the Parkes Educational Tour last October will remember the pasture improvement experimental plots…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wagga Sheep Sale
The Wagga Associated Selling Agents report having held their usual sale of sheep in the Municipal Saleyards on the 9th inst., when there…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On the Land Pastoral (Special for “Free Press”). Fodder and Drought
“That this Association again urge the Railway Commissioners to carry any fodder certified as being for storage for assurance against drought…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Compulsory Wheat Pool Mr. E. S. Twigg Wants Same for Coming Season. Over Fifty Signatures Obtained to Petition in Five Hours
Writing on the above subject Mr. E. S. Twigg says:—“I had a petition for signature in Kendall Street one day recently asking the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers in Council RESOLUTIONS for CONFERENCE "Poor Unfortunate Farmer"
A number of resolutions from the district branches came before the District Council of the Fanners aud Settlers' Association on. Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miscellaneous Wool Report
Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:— Interest centres in the series to be hold this week, although the catalogues necessarily will be largely of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shetland Wool. a Romance of the North
Centuries ago, when the Kings of Denmark exacted tribute from the Shetland Islands, the poverty-stricken crofters, having no money, paid their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Convincing on the Farm. New Oil Container
This is an age of mechanical transport, and machinery plays a dominant part in the daily work of the primary producer…
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