The Effect of Overstocking our Dairy Lands
In a country like this where there is no rotation of crops carried on by dairy farmers, the effect of overstocking, and thus preventing the best…
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Farming & the land, 1903
823 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 42
Farm, Dairy, and Station. a New Food for Cattle
A PROJECT is on foot by the great packing establishments of Chicago, involving the settlement of several hundreds thousand acres of what is at present almost valueless land…
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MR. R. ALCOCK, of Cranbrook Farm, has been notified of the arrival at Melbourne, per steamer Afric, of the six Suffolk sheep which he purchased while in England from the…
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THE worst result of the drought has been the decimation of the State's flocks. In 1991 there were 61,831,410, sheep in New South. Wales, but they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY, Monday Night
DALGETTY and Company, Ltd., report: After an interval of three, weeks, the wool sales were resumed this afternoon under the most, favourable conditions…
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MINISTER KIDD will arrive here in the course of a few days to open the Glen Innes Government Experimental Farm. He will be accompanied by Mr. F. A. Wright, other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
At the opening of the local wool sales yesterday, prices showed an advance of from par to five per cent. Greasy reached 11¾d, and scoured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destruction of Maize Crops
The Clarence River farmers expect to lose £30,000 owing to the destruction, of the maize crops by the recent heat…
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At yesterday's wool sales, prices were very firm. Two lots of greasy, from Abington, Armidale, secured 14[?]d, being the season's record…
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More than usual interest centred in the resumption of public auctions, and competition from the outset was vigorous and well dietributed from a full attendance of buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm, Dairy, and Station. Water for Sheep
THE idea that sheep in pasture need no water except what they get from feeding on grass wet with dew is quite commonly prevalent among farmers. In spring, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Food for Cattle
A project is on foot by the great packing establishments of Chicago involving the settlement of several hundred thousand acres of what is at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmers' Troubles
The stars in their courses seem to be against the farmers. A few short weeks ago, the agriculturists of the Inverell district were consoling…
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Wheat is selling at 5s 7d in Sydney. At the wool sales on Thursday, scoured sold up to 22¾d, whieli is a…
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The Farmers' and Settlers' Co-operative Society, Limited., 343-345 Sussex street, Sydney, report for week ending January 10th:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales
At yesterday's wool sales, greasy reached 13¼d, and scoured 21¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade
A subject which is of great importance at the present time is the wool trade. For a number of years our stock hare fallen off in numbers, and when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Make Poultry Farming Pay
The artificial hatching of eggs has been so long practised in Egypt that the hens have completely abandoned that part of their work to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Returns. BALRANALD
The returns from the Balranald district show that there are 130,000 sheep there as commared with 477,000 in 1891…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Crossbreed, Sheep and Goat, As Animal Food. to the Editors of the Armidade Express
SIRS,—Though we have had abundance of rain all over the State, through the disastrous effects of the drought beef and mutton have been very scarce and have…
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