Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Monday Evening
The weather is getting warmer. 105 in the shade to-day…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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On the Land. Sydney Wool Report
Schute, Bell and Co. report [?] date 2nd January:—Although actual transactions d[?] the recess have been confined the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Crops
Opinions seem to vary very much [?] to the effect of last week's rain on the wheat crops, but it may be taken for granted that no great damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Wheat
We have been shown an excellent sample of Manitoba wheat grown by Mr. Gerald M'Kellar, of Pibbon. The grain in hard and plump, and in equal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Wheat Transactions
Lindley Walker & Co report a follows : The first two trucks of new wheat arrived in Sydney on the 26th November and was sold by [?] 2d per bushell. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool and Wheat Traffic
The railway traffic in wool continued high during last week. The receipts were 16,188 bales, an increase of 7,418 bales as compared with tho same week in last season. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool
Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Limited report under date 31st December, 1906:- The wool business is practically at a standstill, only passed-in lots and the' usual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pickling Wheat
SOME experiments carried on this year at Temora Station by Mr. Wyatt de Little give an idea of the extent to which blue-stone may impair the vitality of seed-wheat, and directs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Crop. How The Harvest is Going
THE Dubbo district, although secondary in area is a wheat producer to Narromine and Wellington, is still a big cropper. This season the area under cereal within 15 to 20 miles of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat of Sixty Years Ago
Mr.S.M. Mowle writes as follows to the HERALD:—In these days of studying and teaching high-class farming, which possibly may come into ordinary and practical use,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General. Wool Report
Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited, wired us on Thursday as follows:—"16,000 sheep wore penned; market opened very firm, but declined later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Australian Wheat Harvest. A Record Yield
FROM latest indications, the hopes entertained a little while back of Australia garnering an 80,000,000 bushel wheat crop may not be quite realised, Although there appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sales.of District Stock. Wheat Sales
Cattle—E. A. Smith, Wellington, 20 bullocks to £9 5s, avg. £8 17s 8d. Miller, Narromine, 5018, p; Brown, Dubbo, 2 106, 60 bags 2s 8d per bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →12,000 Store Sheep. To be sold at Orange
AT the Orange Corporation Yards on Thursday, 17th January, Messrs. Bedford and Taylor, in a injunction with Mr. W. H. Wheatley, will suit by public auction 12,000 mixed store sheep,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rignts Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks
POULTRY breeders gencrally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hutched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy. the Bull's Influence on Milking Breeds
This subject was referred to in an interesting manner by a German scientist, Professor Hansen, of Bonn, on the Rhine, in the course of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To Be a Farmer's—wife!
'Just think, our new cook gets up at six o'clock without being called.' 'she must bo a jewel.' 'Yes; she's going to be married to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →12,000 Store Sheep
Messrs. Bedford and Taylor, in conjunction with Mr. W. H. Wheatley, will offer at the Orange saleyards on Thursday, 17th instant. 12,000 store…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Wheat Returns
The total amount of wool received at Darling Harbor during last week was 16,252 bales. The season's total up to date is 666,694 bales, an increase of 47,060 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Why Lightning Strikes Huddled Sheep
The human breath has been found to be a fair conductor of electricity, a spark from a Wimshurst machine being longer in breathed than in pure air…
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