Melbourne Wool Sales
"The tumult and the shouting dies," writes Kipling, and if it be not desecrating that grand recessional hymn, it may be said to apply to the close of the wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Farming & the land, 1908
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Dry Farming
A bulletin recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture contains the latest experiments in the principles of dry fanning,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Advanced Farming. Professor Campbell’s Dry Soil System
No firmer should be without the [?] harrow. It is the best of all cultivators and its proper use means doubling the crop. In Dekato and Texas is to called the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Great Wool Clip
Messrs Anderson Bros., of Fremantle, near Bathurst, have just completed shearing, and show a record wool clip, having shorn 85,000 sheep. They started shearing on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Care of Dairy Cows
Under good conditions and if properly treated, one may gain the dairy cow’s confidence, and that will increase her motherly instinct. Under those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Rugs V. Housing
The autumn is upon us, and after the rains we shall probably be experiencing [?]old nights and mornings—the time to look to the protection or milch cows in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Australian Farm and Bushworkers' Union. a Branch Formed in Hay
On Saturday night, Mr. W. J. Mokeon, organising secretary of the Australian Farm and Bushworkers' Union, addressed a large meeting of workers from the band rotunda…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jerilderie Butter Factory
As advertised in these columns the time has arrived when the shareholders of the Jerilderie Butter Factory are to be called upon to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Wheat Fund
The following gentlemen have promised to donate a bag of wheat each to the fund.--J. Pilkington. Burryiaa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The English Wool Market. Bradford, November 29, 1907
The anxiously-awaited testing time has at last come round and the result is a matter of history. Never before probably was there so much curiosity in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Agricultural Research. the Scope of Wheat Breeding German and American Effort
The Government Wheat Experimentalist, Mr G. L. Sutton, gives it [?] opinion that the introduction of Mr Farrer’s cross-bred wheat, Federation, [?] going to increase the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer's Awful Experience
Frederick: Pullbrook, a farm laborer, of Ballarat East (Victoria), had a sensational experience on New Year's Eve when returning homewards to spend the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Dairy Notes
Milk regularly, quietly, and quickly. The wooden milk pail is an incubator of filth and bad odours. Whitewash the cowshed. It makes it…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Does Farming Pay ?
This question is often asked and frequently answered off-hand. We think before an answer can be given the counter question—What constitutes paying in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farmers Settlors' Union
The monthly meeting of the Farmers and Settlers Association was held in the Mechanics Institute on Saturday evening last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. Suffolk Punch Horses
The most district type of the various races of British draught horses is undoubtedly the Suffolk Punch. This race has been from time immemorial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Defect in Farmyard Manure
There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure, the resulting by-product a feeding live stock of [?] classes. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy. Strive for Quality
It does not follow that because a farmer has been liberal in his supply of food to his cattle that he obtains a correspondingly high return. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Report. Pastoral Times Office, Friday. at Deniliquin
1045 sheep, W. J. Stitt’s, Invercasley to Melbourne; 1 horse, W. Allitt’s, Deniliquin to Ararat; 27 cattle, Saunders and Grant’s, Deniliquin to Leongatha; 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Rustic Houses
No garden is complete without a summer-house and nothing harmonizes so well with the surrounding objects as good, well-made rustic work,…
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