When Should a Dairy Cow Be Condemned?
If you own a dairy cow that is not yielding as much as 4368 pounds milk yearly, then consign her to the shambles or otherwise dispose of her for beef. This…
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Farming & the land, 1926
787 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 40
Farm and Produce Plants and Disease
A great agricultural scientist says:—It is becoming only too apparent at the present time that increased intensity of cultivation is invariably accompanied by…
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Business in dairy produce is beginning to resume its normal dimensions. During the week there was an increase of 2d per pound in butter, and a decrease of 2d per…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commercial. the Week'e Review. Farm Produce
Since the holidays brisk business has been done in all lines of farm produce. Wheat is particularly firm, and farmers have not shown much inclination…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →From the Presses Sketches of the Bush Bean Among Wool Men
C. E. W. Bean's notable volumes of Australian war history established him as a popular writer, with a fine descriptive faculty based on keen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beaten by Proxies Dairy Company in Business WYONG
At a general and extraordinary meeting of the Wyong Dairy Co., Ltd., to consider the alteration of the article to bring the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROADCASTING Farmer's Service To-day's Programme' Call Sign, 2 F.C. Wave Length, 1100 meters, Power, 5 Kilowatts
6.30: Chimes, 6.35: The "Hello Man" talks to the children. 7.10: No. 17, 2FC radiograph competition, 7.25: News service and sporting information, 7.40:…
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The first of this year's wool sales opened to-day, when 11,054 bales were offered at auction. Of this number 10,206 were sold. Private sales totalled 472…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROADCASTING To-day's Programme Farmer's Service Call Sign, 2 F.C. Wave Length, 1100 metres. Power, 5 Kilowatts
6.30: Chimes, 6.35: The "Hello Man" talks to the children, 7.10: No. 17, 2FC radiograph competition, 7.25: News service and sporting information, 7.30:…
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The wool sales were continued to-day, 11,406 bales being submitted at auction. Of this number 10,006 bales were sold. A further 1313 bales were disposed of by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Choosing Farmer's Wife Sorting Out Applicants LONDON
The Mayoress of Bath has decided that applicants to marry the Queensland farmer, who wrote asking her to find him a wife, should be at least…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Artificial Wool
The "Yorkshire Post's" description of artificial wool has aroused tremendous interest in Bradford, where textilers who, a few weeks ago, scoffed at the ides, are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Show Cattle Drafting Competition
The committee of the Cessnock Agricultural Society is now busily preparing for the forthcoming show. A special sub-committee is to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales Sydney
The Sydney wool sales were continued to-day, when 9101 bales were submitted it auction. Of this number 8489 bales were sold. Private sales accounted for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Artificial Wool
The most recent reports concerning the discovery of a process for manufacturing artificial wool indicate that more progress has been made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Wool Sales Sydney
The wool sales were continued to-day, 11,321 bales being submitted at auction. Of this number 10,502 bales were sold. Private sales accounted tor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder on a Farm
A shocking tragedy has been discovered at a lonely farm in Warwickshire. Mrs. Crabtree, an attractive woman, aged 25, was found dead in a sitting-room,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Training
Reuter's representative yesterday inspected Lynford Hall, Mundford, Norfolk, a large country house surrounded by over a thousand acres of good pasture and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Alligator Farm
Few people in this country have the opportunity of seeing alligators, especially in large numbers, so it may be of interest to hear of a visit to an alligator…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Points in Butter Making
In the first place (says an English authority In reply to a correspondent) the cream should be obtained from clean milk and nicely ripened. Thin the…
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