Murray and Ovens Dairy Company
ONE of the largest gatherings which has ever been seen in Springhurst assembled in the schoolroom on Friday morning last to hear the report and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1895
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Small Fruits on New Farms
Most persons who acquire land in the newly [?] portions of the west delay taking steps [?] secure a supply of fruit till they are in a [?] to set out apple, pear, peach, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden
Sore places on animals caused by flies may be anointed with a mixture of one pint of crude petroleum, one tablespoonful of wood tar, and one teaspoonful of carbolic acid,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feeding Soaked Wheat to Pigs
Mr. Jediah Hill writes National Stockman and Farmer giving his experience in feeding wheat to pigs. He says: I have been experimenting a little in wheat feeding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dalgety's Weekly Wool Sale. MELBOURNE
The Melbourne wool sales were resumed to-day, when we offered a catalogue of 3700 bales to a very good attendance of buyers, and have to report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Preventive for Alfalfa Bloat
Place a bridle bit in the animal's mouth while grazing. One of our farmers who has had considerable experience in losing cattle on alfalfa use tried this method with entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On an Ostrich Farm
It is during the breeding season that the male ostrich becomes so savage, and his note of defiance—'brooming as the Dutch call it—is heard night and day. The bird inflates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Yield
Mr. Coghlan’s estimate of the wheat yield is 7,817,476 bushels from 653 735 acres of land, giving an avenge of 11 96 bushels per acre. The average yield-for the previous 10 years is…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Duty on Wheat
The Cabinet on Friday further considered the question of removing the duty of 61. per [?]ushel placed on wheat by the late Government, It was decided, in pursuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Feeding Soaked Wheat to Pigs
Mr. Jediah Hill writes to National Stockman and Farmer giving his experience in feeding wheat to pigs. He says: I have been experimenting a little in wheat feeding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne, January 7
Messrs. DALGETY and Co. report:—The Melbourne wool sales were resumed to-day, when we offered a catalogue of 370d bales to a very good attendance of buyers, and have to report the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm and Garden. Work for the Week
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.—The ground is bow In the beat condition for receiving seeds or plants of crops of every kind. Amongst them the following may be sown :—French…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Small Items of Profit on the Farm
A new keynote was struck at one of the meetings of the branches of the Bureau of South Australia, which should find an echo in every outlying farming district of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Children's Column, the Secret of Forman Farm
Barry Forman and Dix Grabam were cousins, and there was only a few weeks difference in their ages. But as one lived in an eastern city and the other in a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Horse and Dairy Stock. Melbourne. January 9
Messrs, CAMPBELL and SONS, Kirk's Bazaar, report: — Our ordinary sales comprise extra heavy draughts, subject to-trials, £14 to £22 ; medium draughts, broken, £8 10s to £9 10s;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore Experimental Farm
During his repent trip to the North, Mr. W. S. Campbell, Director of. Agriculture, paid a visit of Inspection to. the experimental farm established some time ago at Lismore by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Public Meeting at Berrigan. Protest by the Farmers
A public meeting of farmers and others was held on Wednesday night to protest against the removal of the duty on grain before December 31…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On an Ostrich Farm
It is during the breeding season that the male ostrich becomes so savage, and his note of deflunce— 'brooming, as the Dutch call it —is heard night and day. The bird inflates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden Preventive for Alfalfa Bloat
Place a bridle bit in the animal’s mouth while grazing. One of our farmers who has had considerable -experience -in losing cattle on alfalfa,- has tried this method with entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and Pigs
Some straight talk by Mr John Johnson, a farmer at Fernihurst, which is the centre the dry mallee fringe country, in which, according to the Conservative oracles, Liberal…
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