Live Cattle Trade
Last week those interested in the live cattle trade on the Macleay despatched 150 head of fat cattle to Armidale, from whence they will be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mid North Coast · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1896
80 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 4
Wool Sales. Sydney
Higher prices ruled for all kind of wool at the sales in Sydney yesterday, and the tone of the market is very brisk…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Dairy Cow. Kind Treatment Essential
ONE of the chief points in the successful management of the dairy cow is that she be always treated with gentleness and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Terrible Tragedy. a Farmer Kills His Wife and Five Children
REGARDING the domestic tragedy at Pine Valley on Sunday night further particulars go to show that the man Joseph Thyer, who was a sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Experimental Farms. Sydney
Arrangements have been made to issue cheap railway tickets to farmers who desire to inspect the Government Experimental Farms…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Epidemic among Dairy Cows
AN epidemic of a very serious character has broken out amongst the dairy cattle in the Cannum district, Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Turkish Farmer's Life
INURED as he has been to a struggling existence, writes Mr. Camber match to the ' St. James' Gazette,' it has had the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Sales. Sydney
During the week no less than 32,047 bales of wool were offered for sale at the Exchange, and 28,294 were sold at satisfactory prices…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Serious Loss of Cattle
Mr. Dulhunty, inspector of stock at Dubbo, reports a heavy loss of cattle through gorging themselves with young variegated thistle when in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Growing on the Clarence
THE advance in the price of flour again suggests the idea of an endeavour being made to produce wheat on the Clarence. The early farmers will…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wheat Market. London
Russian newspapers are urging the Government to take control of the export of wheat. The journals regard the present as a most opportune time…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Agricultural Notes. [These articles are Copyright.] for Practical Men. Queries upon practical farming or kindred subjects forwarded to the Editor of this journal will in due course be dealt with by Mr. Hennessey in this column
IT may be taken as a matter of course that the average man who starts to make an orchard on anything like a large scale, without thorough previous experience will…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Profitable Dairying
A correspondent writes: -- Dairying on the Lower Macleay is now in full swing. One supplier I know of sends 125 gallons of milk per diem to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wheat Crop. Sydney
Speculators have purchased two million bushels of American wheat in anticipation of the shortage in the wheat harvest of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Failure of the British Cereal Crops
WRITING from London on 2nd October, a correspondent tells the 'Australasian Patoralists' Review ' that reports from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →[These articles are Copyright.] Agricultural Notes. for Practical Men. Written for the ARGUS. Queries upon practical farming or kindred subjects forwarded to the Editor of this journal will in due course be dealt with by Mr. Hennessey in this column
IT is a usual thing in England to lay an orchard down in grass, but it may be said at once that such a plan must not be thought of in Australia. Our rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Family Co-operative in Farming
RURAL pursuits do not seem so attractive to sons and daughters of farmers as could be desired, judging from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Export of Butter. Sydney
A deputation of butter exporters waited upon Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, yesterday, to protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming by Electricity
THERE is something romantic in the idea of farming by electricity, but the theory has been carried into successful practice…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Wheat Harvest
The wheat yield this season is officially estimated at 7,435,000 bushels, an increase of upwards of 2,000,000 bushels over last season…
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