For the Farmer. Unsoundness in Horses
Often when I have been buying horses outback in Queensland (says "Marrigang" in N.S.W, "Stock and Station Journal") I have pointed out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1916
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Local and General. Farmers and Settlers
The Farmers and Settlers meet on Saturday next in the afternoon for their usual monthly sitting. This body considering the near appaoach of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Machine Milking. The Problem of Difficult Cows
Milking machines have a wide range of adaptability to unevenly shaped udders, and to teats of different sizes, but in most ordinary herds there are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When to Cut Lucerne. Effect on Next Crop
The Wisconsin experiment station, U.S.A., has shown, by actual trial, that where lucerne was cut on 2nd September, 1914, the stand on 12th May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fight for Moquet Farm How the Australians Won the Position
Mr Phillip Gibbs writes: One of the most valuable factors in the British advance on Sunday was the Australian attack on Mouquet Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Assistance to Farmers. for the Erection of Silos
The recent drought on the North Coast has resulted in bringing home to farmers the absolute necessity of conserving, fodder in order to tide them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers and Settlers Association. Berrigan Branch
There was a fair attendance of [?] at the meeting of the Berrigan branch of tho Farmers and Settlers’ Association on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales
The 1916-17, wool selling season may be said to open in Australia this month (September) with sales on 5th, 6th and 7th insts. at Brisbane, on 11th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales. London
Western Australian greasy merinos brought 26½d. at the sixth series of London wool sales on Thursday. Other prices were:—Queensland 29½d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin (and District) History. [Extracts from the “Pastoral Times.”]
March 9, 1872:— The nomination of a candidate for the Murray electorate in Parliament took place at the Court-house,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep at the Show. Notes on the Flocks They Typify
Judges of sheep at the Albury show from year to year speak of the sheep just as they find them, shoeing the effects of the vagaries of the season. Though…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →That Sixpence for Wheat Farmers
Final arrangements were made yesterday for the payment of an advance of sixpence per bushel to farmers in the wheat pool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep at the Show. Notes on Tee Flocks They Typify. Ii. Walbundrie Station Flock
A very fine record was that put up by the Walbundrie Estate in the merino and lat sheep sections at the Albury Show, Out of 35 exhibits, the estate carried off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country High Schools. School Farms to Be Established
In declaring the Mudgee High School officially opened recently, Mr. Grinith, Minister for Education, said it was the twenty- second high school now in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales
The 1916-17 wool selling season may be said to open in Australia this month. Sales have already been held at Brisbane and Sydney, and will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales. London, Wednesday Afternoon
Nine thousand bales were disposed of at the London wool sales yesterday. Western Australian greasy merinos brought 26½d., Victorian scoured 38d to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and Wheat
At the Agricultural Conference at Adelaide a motion was moved—"That conference disapproves of the action of the Wheat Board in fixing the price of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →State Cattle Venture
In the Queensland Legislative Assembly several questions were answered by Mr. Hunter, Minister for Lands, regarding the purchase of cattle by the Government from…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →A New Sheep Pest
Mr. Frederick Gulliver, of Handley Station, discovered, whist cutting open the head of a merino wether, a small grub, which was apparently living…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trucking the Wheat
Slow progress is being made with the shipment of wheat from Riverina districts, and it looks as it a large part of last season's crop will still be…
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