Experimental Wheat Growing
MR. M'KEOWS, manager of the Wagga Experimental Farm, has furnished the results of interesting experiments made by the Application of manure in the cultivation…
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Farming & the land, 1902
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Advance in Butter. Sydney
There was a further advance in butter this morning to 14d for creamery. Other grades advanced proportionately…
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Winchcombe, Carson and Co. report on Tuesday, March 4th, as follows:—The wool market to-day is very firm for all to good merinos. Scoured wools are selling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening
The weather is still close, and on Thursday the atmosphere was very muggy. Great clouds could be seen in the north and northeast, and a storm seemed imminent, but as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Home Made Cheese
ON a dairy farm er where plenty of milk is available, it is not much more work to make some cheese than it is to make butter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ponto Farmers' Union
The usual monthly meeting of the above was held at Mr. S. Jackson's residence, Ponto, on February 22nd last. The vice-President occupied the chair…
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Owing to the drought, butter has again advanced this morning to 1s 6d per lb for creamery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening
The weather is still hot and muggy, the heat being continuous. On Saturday the glass registered 106 degrees in the shade: on Sunday 108½ on Monday 103, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market. Sydney, March 8
The first sales of the winter series were held duriug the past week. The selection of greasy wools included a few good lines, with a large proportion of berry, skirty and…
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[?] [?] and Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., report:- Marsupial skins.—Although the smaller and lighter serts of red and grey kangaroo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mullah Scrub Lease. Meeting of Farmers and Settlers' Association
A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Trangie Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Hoffernan's Hall on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jersey Cattle
The Jersey cow has become an universal favourite with the dairyman. They live and thrive where most other breeds would starve and perish. As a butter producer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Sheep-Killing Dog
Concerning a sheep-killing dog, here is a quaint extract from an old English paper, "The Newcastle Courant," of the year 1823:—'September 21—A few days ago a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Load of Wheat
Parkes people are inclined to "crow" over a mere trifle of a load of wheat, containing 132 bags, and weighing 14 tons 11 cwt, brought into their railway station last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer and Settler
The other day at Walgett a few drought-stricken farmers burnt the Hon. W. F. Crick, Minister for Lands, in effigy, as a relief to their feelings, but it would be unfair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fowl Tick. (Manager Grantham Stud Poultry Farm, Plumpton, Rooty Hill.)
Judging from the number of poultry keepers in different parts of the Commonwealth seeking advice how to successfully combat the "poultry tick," this pest must…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Red Wheat V. White Wheat
WHITE wheat is not worth so much on the open market as red wheat by 1s to 2s per quarter; it has a thick skin (or bran), is of a fibrous nature, and does not yield so much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cancer in Cattle
A SERIES of interesting investigations relative to the cause and nature of tumours taken from cattle in various parts of South Australia has been forwarded the Central Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Sheep to Breed
A WRITER in the Sydney "Stock and Station Journal" in discovering the above question, remarks:--I contend that, Vermont or no Vermont, the sheep must be in the hands of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening
"Silas Bragge" says the new moon puzzles him. It is not often, he says, that the points of a new moon are clinched like a horse shoe, and he believes that horse shoe…
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