Hints on Seed Selection. the Farmer His Own Crop Breeder
Dr. Vries, in his lectures before the University of California, on the origin of varieties, says that our cultivated garden and field crops are commonly…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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Farming Without Capital Pioneering Experiences of Mr. J. Weatherspoon, of Glencoe
Invited to give "Farmer and Settler" readers a sketch, of bis pioneering work, to follow the interesting story told by Mr. T. C. Worboys, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairying Notes
In five years tho export of Australian butter has jumped from 18,000 to 33,000 tons; the dairy cows of the State alone having in that time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The World's Wheat Yield
White the world's wheat crop, according to Beerbohm's compilation, is 433,000,000 quarters, or 10,000,000 more than that of last year, the biggest crop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy. Effect of Food on Milk
The effect of food on milk Is an oftdebated point, though difference of opinion frequently arises from ambiguilty as to what Is really meant. On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Field. Treating Seed Outs few [?]
Out smut is one of the worst [?] of the oat crop; it frequently causes [?] of 5 or 10 per cent. of the [?] Many do not seem to realise the deadly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying and Fertility
Any branch of farming which in creases the general fertility of the farm land, while paying a living profit, is worth more than another which steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Dairy Why Keep Unprofitable Cows
The illustration which we reproduce from "Hoard's Dairyman" speaks eloquently of a very unsatisfactory condition of things prevailing amongst the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wool Market
Windeler & Co., Woolbrokers, London, report under date May 16, as follows:—The third series of colonial wool sales, which commenced on the 30th ult., closed to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horses Gorged with Wheat
Mr. E. L. Jones, Roseneath, writes to the PEAK HILL EXPRESS:—I have frequently noticed reports in papers where horses have died through ealing wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy. Original, Articles All Rights Resbseved.] Increasing the Corn Yield
It is generally believed and understood that it is advisable to procure seed from that which has previously grown in the neighbourhood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Notes
When the thousand and one chances for loss in the dairy come to be considered, it appears that either the ignorant dairyman ought soon to find…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
Winchcombe, Carson and Co. report on 19th instant:—We held bur last monthly wool sale to-day for this season, the end of the present month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A [?]Culture and Wheat
The Bureau of Statistics made available the statistics dealing with the agriculture of the State for the 12 months ended March, 1907, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers & Settlers
A meeting of the Coonabarabran branch of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association was held on Saturday afternoon, when there were present Dr. Failes (chair) and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural & Pastoral Societies' Conference
The following letter to the various P.A. and H. Associations has been sent by Mr. T. I. Campbell, secretary of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union of…
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A gentleman visiting Narromine on Saturday last informs us of a ghastly sight he witnessed at that place. It appears that a consignment of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sheep Show. . Sydney
The annual sheep show was opened on the Agricultural Ground yesterday. There were 530 exhibits altogether, including noncompetitive exhibits from the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday evening
The atmosphere this morning was bitterly cold, owing to a south-westerly. The day, however, has been beautifully bright and signs of rain have disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Trade. Last Sales of the Year
THE closing sales of the current wool year (says the "S.M. Herald") were held in Sydney on Wednesday and Thursday last, when eleven out of the twelve firms of selling brokers submitted…
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