Forming a Dairy Herd
In forming a herd of dairy cows there are few important points which the dairyman should bear in mind, unless he wishes to be greatly handicapped in these days of small…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1907
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Wool Sales. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. Melbourne
The Melbourne brokers held one of the usual periodical winter sales to-day when we submitted a catalogue of some three hundred and ten bales. The offerings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful Farming
All example of what can be done on the land is supplied by the experience of Messrs. Catberry Bros., of Gobarralong. These young men put in a crop of oats…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Profits of Poultry Farming
Poultry farmers are at present reaping the advantage they expected some time ago when they gave special attention to growing turkeys, especially for the export…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Yield
The Bureau of Statistics has issued its annual tables respecting the past season's crops in New South Wales. In all 53,087 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Share Farmer's Troubles. a Hillsborough Incident
Mr. A. F. Payne, recently a share farmer on Mr. Geo. Smyth's Hillsborough estate near Corowa, has been ventilating his troubles under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Barbered " Sheep
The shearing machine, in the opinion of Mr. Donald M'Donell, M.L.A., honorary general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, is gradually ou[?]ing the hand-shearer from the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Crossbreeding of Sheep
In this article the merino being by far the cheapest and most easily obtainable sheep in Australia, is taken as the dam in the first crosses in every case. This being…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Society. The Forthcoming Show
The annual show of the Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Society will take place at Hay on the 24th and 25th July, On this occasion the Show will be held on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat and Cereal Market. Melbourne
Wheat.—Buyers are still holding off and practically no business of any moment has been transacted Prime milling is nominally quoted at 3s 8d in a weak market, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Friday, June 14
The Melbourne wool brokers held their June sale to-day, when the total offerings aggregated 1839 bales, the catalogue being composed for the most part of crutchings and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool and Stock Reports. Grazier Office
ECHUCA STOCK MARKETS.—Shackell, White and Co. report under date Saturday, June 15th :—We had only a moderate yarding of stock forward to-day, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The English Wool Market. Bradford, May 10, 1907
The week under review has been one of extreme quietness, and as regards new business on the Bradford market the indicator has been placed to "dead slow."…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →American Agriculture. Opinion of a N.s.w. Farmer
It is generally admitted that in special lines the United States farmer takes a lot of beating. He is, for example, a great orchardist, likewise a remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. Effect of Food on Milk
The effect of food on milk is an oft debated point, though difference of opinion frequently orison from ambiguity us to what is really meant. On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fox Farming as an Industry
It is a well-known fact that wild fur-bearing animals are rapidly becoming extinct, and it is also an established fact that the demand increases as the supply decreases. For this…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Dairy Notes
To digest milk easily it should be slowly sipped. As a pure-bred the Ayrshire is a little less than 100 years old…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office
The following are the stock movement:— [?]00 mixed weaners and wethers from A. Fegan, Moroco to Melbourne; 450 cross bred ewes and lambs from W. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Increasing the Corn Yield
It is generally believed and understood that it is advisable to procure seed from that which has previously grown in the neighbourhood…
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