Sheep at Bathurst Experimental Farm. (By B. W. Peacock in the Agricultural Gabetts)
In view of the interesting experiments now being carried on in this district with crossbreds the following will be read with interest:…
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Farming & the land, 1906
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Effects of Bad Cultivation on Wheat
A PERPLEXING variation in samples of wheat has been much discussed in several districts during the past three seasons. Contrasts between sample and sample are always to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Offer to Carry Wheat to Japan
A communication has been received by the Premier on behalf of four shipping companies offering to carry free of charge 500 tons of wheat to the famine stricken district of Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Forming a Dairy Herd
IN starting with a herd of grade crossbred or mixed cows it is necessary first to select the good ones and dispose of the unprofitable, replacing them as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Oilstones and Grindstones
Freqently the oil and grindstones on a farm become irregularly worn, and in a condition to ruin edge tools, as at A (fig 1.) At fig. 2 is shown a stone worn into an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Wheat Returns
The wool received at Darling Harbor, Morpeth and Newcastle for the past week showed an increase of 969 hales over the corresponding week of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
At the concluding sales of last week 9133 bales were forward to a big attendance of buyers Some of the wool offered was composed of inferior to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat and Wool. Comparison with last Season
THE wool received at Darling Harbor, Morp[?]th and Newcastle for the season is 638,204 bales as against 502,442 for the period of last year. The total of wheat received was 696,273 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening
Weather cloudy and muggy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. London, Monday night
Competition in all sectione were [?]rm and strong at the London Colonial wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Market Co
Report for Saturday, 27th January:-—Sold 236 cases of fruit through the week. Apples, 2s qr. case, 5s to 6s gin case; plums, 3s to 4s half case; lemons, 3s qr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmers' Exchange
At the Farmers Exchange on Saturday, 27th inst., the following prices were obtained:-— Hens, 2s to 2s 3d; pullets, 2s to 2s 6d; chickens, 1s 6d to 2s 5d; ducks, 2s…
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At the wool sales yesterday greasy reached 13 1/4d, and scoured ls 11d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat for Dubbo Hospital
Mr. Mitchell informs us that yesterday he received two bags of wheat on behalf of the Dubbo Hospital from Messrs. W. Barden and E. Johnson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advertising Our Wool in U.s.a
A suggestion has been made, through the Agent General for New South Wales, that an exhibition of N.S.W. wools in the United States would be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat
Messrs. J. Raven and Coy., wheat brokers and agents, 148 Clarence-street, Sydney, under date January 30th, report as follows: —Wheat—latest cables received from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. Remarkable Butter Yield
A most remarkable account of butter production from a Jersey cow is being published in tho American papers, to which a few references, may be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Sales
Winchcombe Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date 30th inst:—We held a splendid wool sale to-day selling about 5500 bales by auction and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Butter Making Process
A committee of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, has just made public its report on the Taylor process for butter-making. It Is recommended that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening
As reported in our last issue, the weather was cloudy and muggy on Tuesday evening last, and early in the evening a few drops of rain fell. On Wednesday evening,…
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