Farmers Busy and Satisfied
THE Superintendent of Railway Lines, Mr. H. Richardson, who has just returned from a visit to the southern districts, speaks in glowing terms of the state of the country…
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Farming & the land, 1904
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The Wheat Crop
We learn from Mr. Joseph Gowen, Monkittee, that he estimates his wheat yield this season at 30 bushels to the acre, and the oat crop a 35 ushers . r. Gowen state this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Economical Feeding of Dairy Cattle
PROFlTS in dairying now depend largely upon the total of small savings made possible by careful attention rather than an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wheat Harvest
The record of wheat handled by the Railway Commissioner between December 1,1003 and last Saturday furnishes a remarkable contest when compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migratory Sheep of Spain
There are said to be about 10,000,000 migratory sheep in Spain, which travel as much as 200 miles from the plains to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat at Bungendore
It is stated that the wheat yields in the Bungendore district are remarkably good. One grower reports having obtained 600 bushels of wheat of excellent quality from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Wheat Yield
The “Dubbo Liberal” says:—The best yield of wheat so far this season has been garnered from G. Chandler, [?] Gilgandra. From five acres he harvested 50 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Wool Sales
Messrs. John Hoare and Co.’s colonial wool circular for January, 1904 states:— Merino wool has shown but little variation throughout the past year, it has always been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Management of Comb Honey
ALL strong colonies of been when run for comb honey will generally cast a swarm. The parent colony should be set aside end the swarm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pigs and Sheep for Codlin Moth
MR. JOHN BRODERICK of Crookwell recently wrote to the Field as follows: ''I believe I have read all the remedies that have been published in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women as Dairy Instructors
An exchange says:—“In Canada, as in Scotland women instructors in dairying are employed Two of these experts, Misses [?] and Annie Rose, of [?] have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Dairying
The Canadian Government has been carrying out an experiment in the running of creameries in the North-West Territories, and apparently with success. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Crop
Mr. Vincent Ellison informs us that wheat is coming forward for delivery in large quantities He speaks of the quality as being all that can be desired, very clean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market
THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Rocks are, cock, nine and a half pounds, hon, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep for Godlin Moth
Last issue of the Agricultural Gazette contains the following:— Mr. W. Farrer, wheat experimentalist to the department, states that five or six years ago codlin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Market
MUCH perception should not be required to realise that the price of wheat can only rise as the result of decreased production, of increased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Experimental Farm
Visitors to Wagga and more, particularly, “men on the land a day” who have a day or two to spare will be amply repaid by a visit to the Wagga Experimental Farm Having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep-breeding Extraordinary
"CENTRAL," a landholder in the Dundaloo district, furnishes the following:--After the drought of 1899 I had 2500 ewes on saltbush, myall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Dressing Poultry for Market
ALL fowls should be fasted twenty-four to thirty-six hours before killing. Where that is not done the food decays in the crop and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Experimental Farm
Next come the poultry yards which are wired off into very large pens. this department is in charge of Mr. E. O. Warburton who is a ventitable encyclopaedia of poultry…
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