The Producer. Farming. Potato Breeding
FOR several years the railing of new varieties of potatoes amounted to a boom in England, but propagators seem now to have called a partial halt. Large sums of money…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New England · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1908
928 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 47
Dairying the Sire in the Herd
THE sire in the herd is very important. If yon have a good one, hold him as valuable, and keep him as long as you can. If be is really valuable, he is so, not only for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Sales. (By wire)—Tuesday
At the Co-operative Wool and Produce Company's wool sales to-day, the market was on a par with late rates, Faulty lots were quite neglected. The highest price for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer's Creed
More than sixty years ago Henry Ward Boecher, the great pulpit orator, gave voice to the following farmer's creed which possesses lasting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ben Lomond Cattle Sale
Rel, Blaxland and Co. report having conducted a successful cattle sale at the Ben Lomond Station Yards on Friday last, when they disposed of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales
The A. M. L. pus F. Co. Ltd., (Sydney, report:—"For our second sale of the new year, on the 3rd inst., a catalogue of 1,977 bales was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bog Butter
BOG butter is mentioned in various dis[?]tionaries of [?]ence and samples of it may be seen in many museume. but there is no recent record of its discovery. A year or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Those "Cattle Saleyards."
THE long-considered and greatly protracted question of establishing local cattle saleyards under the auspices of the Municipal Council was again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial News. Cattle Sale
[?] is connection with Bru[?]er and Catton, report having ce[?] a very [?]ful [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales
[?] MORT & Co., LTD report ([?]:—On Tuesday we sub[?]itd a cate[?] of 4431 bales to a full att[?]dance of buyers when good stapled f[?] and skirting were in good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cattle-driving Trouble. London
REFERRING to cattle-driving in Ireland, Mr. Birrel, in the House of Commons, said, "I wish to God it would cease. Civil proceedings alone avail nothing, and criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales
At yesterday's wool sales, prices were unchanged. Greasy reached 13¾d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales
Messrs. Sohute, Bell, and Co., Sydney, report under date 11th February:—We submitted a eatalogue of 2064 bales yesterday, distinctly above the average as a whole as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Sales. (By Wire)
Messrs. Goldsbrough; Mort, and Co., Ltd., report:— Good wools sold well at our sale this week, but inferior sorts, and also heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
HARRISON, Jones & Devlin, Ltd., report on Thursday:—We brought forward a catalogue of 3240 bales, which included several good to superior clips, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Pack
OUR local sheep men are, more or less, concerned in the question of packing or baling wool, and in previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming. Storing Potatoes
A LEAFLET recently issued by the English Board of Horticulture states that, as a preventive of an attack of winter rot in potatoes, the tubers should be well dried before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Producer. Dairying
IT is far casier to sell Inferior stock (to the botcher) than to boy cows that are good enough. THE dairyman who does not keen up an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer's Telephones
MR. AUSTIS CHAPMAN, Federal Tressurer, says that when he stated in Sydney the other day that the Government hoed to [?] provide larmess with telephones at has week his remakes were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Pastoral Notes
An interesting experiment in potato culture has been carried oat at Glen Innes Experimental Farm, with some degree of success. The heavy clay…
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