Homestead Farms
Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., writes, with reference to homestead farms, that they are not Crown leases within the meaning of section 98 of the Act…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1912
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General Cable News. London, Wednesday. English Butter Market
The butter market is sluggish. Shipments by the R.M.S. Mooltan opened well. The latest quotations arc as follows:- Salted 116/ and 118/; unsalted 120/…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Meeting of Electorial Council
The adjourned meeting of the Electoral Council, formed by the various branches of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association in the Albury electorate took place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jerilderie Butter Factory
A meeting of the Directors of the Jerilderie Butter Factory was held on Tuesday afternoon in the Council Chambers. Present Messrs. Sleeman (chair),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, including Dalgety & Co. Ltd., Harrison Jones and Devlin, Ltd, Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., Pitt, Son…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The wool sales resumed on Wednesdays Dalgetys offered a large catalogue of Riverina and Northern Victorian wools mostly crossbreds. Most of the wools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Wool, Less Shoddy
No mention of Australian Manufactures' Week would be complete without a tribute to Vicars' incomparable tweed, the sterling stuff that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral. Ostriches at Yanco. An Industry with a Future
"Anywhere that lucerne will grow ostriches will thrive." This was the view of Professor Duerden, expressed some years ago, and it is the opinion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are [?] mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can [?] many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual problem…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Wheats for Irrigation. Variety Trials at Yanco
What varieties of wheat will best suit the district and produce the best crops of hay and green fodder is one of the problems that concern the settlers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land. Wheats for Irrigation
What varieties of wheat will best suit the district and produce the best crops of hay and green fodder is one of the problems that concern the settlers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragedy on a Dairy Farm. Father Kills His Family. Six Victims. MELBOURNE
A horrible tragedy is reported from Kerang. A dairy farmer named John Andrews, has been found dead in his house at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Feeding of Calves. Methods at Experiment Farms
The feeding of calves is an important matter to dairymen. However promising the calf may be, it is possible for its development to be retarded, or its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Fine Merinos and Crossbreds Dearer. America at Work
The racing carnival has in no way interfered with the general course of the sales, buyers not voyaging round the world for buyers not purpose of attending even a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Wheats for Irrigation. Variety Trials at Yanco
What varieties of wheat will best suit the district and produce the best crops of hay and green fodder is one of the problems that concern the settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trouble at Homebush Sales. Carcase Butchers Decline to Bid. 15,000 Sheep Withdrawn From Sale. Homebush
The strike amongst the slaughtermen: delayed the starting of the Homebush sales for an hour and a half this morning. When the auctioneers were about to commence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brocklesby Farmers and Settlers' Picnic
The fourth annual picnic of the Brocklesby branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on the recreation ground on Wednesday, 30th October,…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Crops Better Now. Grubben, Yerong Creek
Dear Uncle Jeif,—I am writing to ask you to accept me as one of your nephews. I am twelve years of age, and am stopping at Yerong for a while. We had no…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ostrich-farming
According to a pamphlet by Mr. J. Hancock, of Adelaide, the ostrich will thrive where a sheep can live, and if it eats three times the quantity of food that a sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The German Farmer
In some of the northern countries of Europe the average yield an acre from land that has been tilled for a century is more than, twice the yield from virgin soil on…
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