Wheat as Feed
Large quantities of wheat are being fed to live stock this year, especially to sheep. Maize is scarce and prices high. Every year there are small quantities of damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1902
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The Dairyman's Opportunity
A favorite argument used against the dairying industry is that in times of drought his occupation will be a non-paying one by reason of the cost of maintaining his stock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. Sheep Breeding
THE Shropshire breed is probably the most popular for crossing with the grade Merino fer early lambs, producing also a very saleable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool and Mutton
IT is a matter of wonder to a great many people, especially in some districts, why the price of clothes should advance when English wools are being sold as low, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western H[?] Office, Friday Evening
Good rain fell around Dry Lake last Saturday, about an [?] being recorded. All the tanks are full. (BY TELEGRAPH.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening
It felt like [?] all day, but we would be surprised if any fell. Mr. Russell wired at 2 o'clock that during the succeeding 48 hours there was a probability of rain. We hope…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. the Wool and Produce Market. the Wool Market. Sydney, May 5
All classes of merino wool have during the past week continued to meet with a very strong demand, but stocks are principally confined to the output of fellmongering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trangie Farmers and Settlers' Association
THE usual monthly meeting of the Trangie branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Mr. Heffernan's Hall on Saturday last…
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The third series of London colonial wool sales opened on the 6th instant. Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co's private cable from their London agents reports crossbreds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Productivity of Wheat
Mr G Maurice McKeown, manager of the Wagga Experimental Farm, writes to the Melbourne "Leader" as follows:—"A paragraph in the "Leader" states that "the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Prospect
Messrs. Sheppard, Harvey, and Walker report: "There is no doubt that growers and wheat buyers will look back with mixed feelings on the year that is now practically…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep that are never Shorn
Even in far-away Iceland feminine enterprise and industry are working wonders. A woman of that country, who has the welfare of her fellow-women very much at heart,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Important Pastoral Deputation
A WESTWORTH message reports that on Thursday last a number of pastoralists interviewed the Minister for Lands relative to the Arbitration Act and the Shearers' Accommodation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important Wool Sales
ONE of the most important sales of wool recorded in Sydney for some little time past was effected on Monday last (says the ''Australian Star"), when a large line of between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening
Yet another disappointment. On Tuesday Mr. Puasell wired that during the following 48 hours the conditions for rain would be more favorable than any we had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Wool Sales. London
Competition is brisk, and opening prices are tally maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C0mmercial. the Wool and Produce Market
Winchcomha, Carson and Co. report on 7th May:—"The third series of London Colonial Wool sales opened on the 6th inst. Our private cable from our London agents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer's Fears. Dispelled by Bile Beans. Nervousness the Complaint
Mr William Brown, of Sparke-st., Maitland, who is a retired farmer, writing to the proprietors of Bile Beans says:—- 'I am now 74 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. New Ideas in Curing Cheese
THE discovery of the ferment, or ewzym galactase,in milk, by Professor Baboock.may probably revolutionise the che[?] industry. Most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Sales. London
At the wool tales-cross-breds were firm and unchanged merinos are hardening…
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