Farmer and Grazier
Under this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions hiring reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
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Farming & the land, 1894
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Dairy and Farm. How and When to Ring-bark
THERE are four different ways of ring-barking timber, which I have tried. No. 1 is by making a ring round the tree by driving an axe in an dpressing the axe downwards without taking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experimental Farming
OPERATIONS of a somewhat extensive character are at present being carried on at the Agricultural College grounds Hawkesbury. A new dairy residence, houses, milk yard and farm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Silo for the Farmer
WE are asked if we would advise saving ensilage by the general farmer who is not engaged in the diary business. In reply, we would say that every farmer is in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spurgeon and the Farmer
ANOTHER anecdote of the late Mr. Spurgeon is related by Mr. A. J. Parker in 'The Sword and Trowel.' Preaching one Sunday at the Taberunole from the words…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maize Diseases—A Warning to Farmers
THE Queensland Agricultural Department have landed in that colony some 1000 bushels of seeds, which are to be distributed forthwith. The consignment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer and Grazier
UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Advice to Farmers
MR. G. H. REID, M.P., speaking at Narraudera last week said if the farmers took the trouble to compare the price of wheat and flour two years ago, it would be found…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Direct Supply Company
A MEETING vas held in Webb's Railway Hotel, Sydney, last week for the purpose of forming a company to take over the business of Messrs. Francis Herrick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Electoral Union
MR. EDITOR,—Having assisted to form Farmers' Unions in various venires, it has been decided to invite farmers' in localities where unions do not yet exist in the Ballina…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy and Farm. Sugar Cane Experimental Farm
MARTIN'S Home and Farm writes;—Mr. W. S. C[?]mpbell, of the Agricultural Department, has just instituted an experimental farm upon the Clarence River (?), with the laudable object of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Farmers' Export association
A MEETING of the exeoutive of the Dairy Farmers' Export Association was held in Sydney on Friday to consider the present outlook of the butter industry, more particularly in relation to continuing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Dairying Industry
THE Government Statistician estimates that at the close of 1892 this colony possessed no less than 254 butter, cheese, and bacon factories, with machinery and plant of the estimated value of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy and Creamery
An admirable change has been suggested in the disposal of whey. Instead of hauling it home in the milk cans and feeding it out sour or otherwise, the plan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. G. H. Reid's Advice to Farmers
SIR,—Mr. Reid has been prolific in his advice to farmers, particularly to the mutter of cheap railways. These railways are all right enough, but in no way can assist the fanner in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer and Grazier
UNDER this beading we shall be glad to publish contributors having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Matter of Beep Moment to Our Farmers
THE subject of improving our highways is of such vital importance to every member of the community—particularly to those engaged in agricultural, pastoral and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Section 2—Cattle. Judges—W. A. Johnston, M. Gay, H. Buckley, J. J. Tindall. Dairy Cattle
Bull, 3 years and over—S. R. Cooke'h Dan 1st; W. Somerville's Commodore 2nd, J. Boyle's— 11 c. 12 ontries. Ball, 2 years and under 3—D. Cooke 1st, T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sugar Beets and Potatoes. How Muck They Are Worth In Butter Production
In bulleting 17 of the lowa agricultural college, Professer Wilson gives the results of feeding experiments to determine the value of sugar beets and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Improving Wornout Soils. How That May Be Done With Commercial Fertilizers and Green Crops
A Missourian, in a letter to Prairie Farmer, says that one way to help run down land so that profitable crops can be grown is by using commercial…
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