Sydney Wool Market
Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 17st December:—Recent auction sales have served to emphasise the…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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Breeding Dairy Cattle
One thing always advisable to consider when men start out buying pure-bred cattle (writes Hoad's Dairyman) is that the knowledge, skill, and character…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Dairy. Siberian Butter
Siberian better, is the opinion of the "Grocer," London, promises to exercise more influence on the London butter market in the future than in the post…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Field. Influence of Seed Selection
How necessary it is for a farmer to exercise care in the selection of the seed that he commits to the ground is being increasingly demonstrated —the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Troubles. Rabbits and Fire
Uncertain seasons are had enough, but combined with other calamities in the way of those devastators, rabbits and fire, farmers would soon find their labours…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat Crop. Prospects in the West
The prospects of the wheat yield in the west are not encouraging (writes the S. M HERALD). The season was uncertain, and when the saving rain came much of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Mammoth Cattle Herd
Australasia's mammoth cattle herd is that running on the Victoria River station Northern Territory, 320 miles south of port Darwin. It numbers 60,000 head…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Experiments at Cowra
The Cowra correspondent of the HERALD writes;— The experiments at the Cowra and Coolabah farms have been attracting so much attention that Mr. Sutton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney-Brisbane Wool Sales. The Fall in Wool Values
MR. H. C. M'CULLOCH writes:--Mr. Francis B[?] recent letters, have un[?] been the means of re-awakening considerable interest in a matter which is of vital importance to this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday evening
Light showers fell on Tuesday and Wednesday. The almusphere is clear and cool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Markkt. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, December 19
At Winchcombe Carson & Co's wool sales the market was exceptionally firm, and the competition keep. Greasy reached 15½d, scoured 20¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Dairy Cows
To dairy cows fresh pastures are in- 1 dispensable. There must be a pretty good bite, but superabundance is not advised, lest the herbage gets dry,…
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Fifty wethers died at Coolac Creek after drinking there subsequent to eating young thistles. Three hundred and fifty others are in a dying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protecting Sheep From Dogs
W. [?] writes thus to the “S. M. Herald”:— “Having heard so much lately about the damage done by dingoes and foxes to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Growing Crops Deposit Lime
Recent research has shown that crops in their process of growth leave behind in the soil a residue of lime, which may account for the fact that average crops…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairy. Municipal Milk Depots
The following are the main provisions of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool
The N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., Ltd., report under date December 18th, 1907:—Our catal—ogue to-day comprised mostly medium to good wools and a good many small clips,…
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Winch[?], Carson & Co., Ltd., report: —Wednesday scatalogues marked the close of the auctions for 1907. There was ample evidence in the sales effected that the trade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commerical. Western Herald Office. Tuesday evening
The weather is hot, the glass showing 110 degrees in the shade to day. There are however, some lovely clouds floating about, and an early change Would not surprise us…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident near Singleton. Numbers of Sheep Killed
About 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning a cattle train from Newcastle, when nearing the Singleton station, became derailed. There were two engines on the train. On…
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