Wheat v. Maize for Feed
If the present high price of maize continues coincident with the low and threatened still lower values for wheat Professor…
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Farming & the land, 1893
154 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 8
Poultry Notes. Best Breeds and Crosses for Farmers
SOME months back I described how to start a poultry farm, so we will suppose the would-be poultry-raiser understands all about the…
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The Austral took sixteen hundred boxes of butter to Loudon yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Condition of Farmers in Victoria
Mr. Max Hirsch, a well-known Melbourne writer and lecturer on political economy, delivered an address in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wood Ashes on the Farm
As a fertiliser wood ashes often have an actual value in excess of their theoretical value, and have even a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Caterpillars and Maize Crops
Some, time ago it was reported that caterpillars had appeared in large swarms in the Hawkesbury district, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Notes. the Best Cross Breeds for Farmers
THIS week's paper describes the particular crosses for egg production, and general utility. The cross I should place first would be the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Take-all and Dry Blight in Cereal Crops
An article under this head appearing in the " Agricultural Gazette," Vol. III, Part 12, by Dr. N. A. Cobb, Pathologist to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Items
The Mudgee district, which a few years' ago knew nothing of co-operative farming, is now earning £20,000 a year in monthly cash dividends through its co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Market
THE South Coast and West Camden Cooperative Company report on the above as follows :--The prices ruling on the English market this season have not been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diversity of Crops. a Hint to Macleay Farmers
The 'Australasian,' writing upon the condition to which farmers may be reduced who depend upon one crop only for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Clarence. a Second and Worse Flood. the Maize Crop Nearly All Destroyed. Ruinous Consequences to the District. Grafton
The river is now down to 10ft. above the usual level, and all the up rivers are falling. The back water is nearly all off the streets. The weather is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pleasant Farm Life
How to make the life of farming a much more pleasant but not less profitable one came under discussion lately at a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hunter. Great Damage to Crops. Newcastle
At Raymond Terrace the river rose 4ft. above the normal level, covering all the wharves. A large area of cultivation land was flooded, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Profits of Dairying
A correspondent of a journal published in the north-eastern district of Victoria writes :--" The following returns are now being obtained from the creameries by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian Dairy Cow
"Victoria" in the "Rural Australian" writes:--As one who has been a good deal amongst the dairy herds of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Corn Fever. Important to Farmers
A correspondent at Taree having applied to the Agricultural Department for information regarding a means of preventing the sickness caused by the dust in maize,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duties on Farm Produce. to the Editor of the Independent
SIR,—As the impression is abroad that the defeat of my “Produce duties motion” involved to some extent the policy of the Government, permit me…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Butter Cow
The man who believes that in any one of the many dairy breeds lies all the butter production, or that it lies…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Important to Dairy Farmers
A correspondent writes to a southern contemporary as follows:--No person who has had experience in butter…
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