Farm, Garden and Orchard. Original Articles. Cutting Back Peach Trees
OF all orchard trees, the poach stands in greatest need of regular and severe pruning. If left unpruned the tree makes a good growth while young and…
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Farming & the land, 1904
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Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Friday, June 17, 1904. Farmers and Settlers' Conference
THE fag end of the long business paper before the conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association at Dubbo was disposed of on Monday, when a few resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuberculosis in Cattle
THAT the British Royal Commission, which a fortnight ago furnished its report, should have pronounced itself as opposed to the theories lately held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Column. The public are allowed to express their opinions in this Column providing all correspondence is signed by the writer—not necessarily for publication At the same time, we wish it to be clearly understood that we do not endorse the opinions of those who so make use of it—Editor Q.A. Mail Service for Wild Cattle Flat. to the Editor
SIR,—For some reason, i know not why, the Postal authorities persistently state that I and others applied for a deviation of the Ballallaba-Bredbo mail service to come by…
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The High Court set aside the decision that sheep travelling form one run to another belonging to the same owner, for a distance of thirty-miles, were legally travelling sheep…
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A case of much interest to stock[?] and drevers was argued on appeal from judgement by Mr Justice P ring, before High Court in Sydney on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. to Tell the Age of Poultry
THERE are certain characteristics in connection with poultry by means of which, it is said, that the ago of poultry may, be known. In the case of young…
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An exchange states that the proprietors of Clifton station, New England district report the loss of 35,000, sheep in three years from the ravages of the dinga pest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Ventilation in the Incubator
LATE experience with hatching machines emphasised the desirability of restricted ventilation or the supplying of abundant moisture in the air of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News for Farmers. Several New Jersey Settlers Combine on a Wonderful Ideal
James L. Ford William Curtie [?] and R. K. [?] a Company that will supply a Long Felt want to our egg [?]…
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At the annual sheep sales to-day record prices were realized A ram 3 months old belonging to Messrs Cooper and Sons fetches 800 guineas The ram Bulky…
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THE 600 stud sheep penned at the Agricultural Ground on Wednesday constitutes a record. Being the best exhibition of merinos this continent…
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There is a good demand at the stud sheep sales. Messrs. Goldsborough, Mort and Co. submitted at to-day’s sales 2280 rams and ewes, mostly Tasmanian. High…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fertilizer Constituents
ALL agricultural plants consist essentially of ten chemical elements, the proportion of these different elements varying quite widely with different plants…
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The farmers of Eurobin and Ovensvale (Vic.) are seriously concerned at the proposed dredging works on the river flits. This land is the choicest about the district, and judging by the results at…
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THE ram sales which were held in Sydney last week, serve to illustrate the great recuperative resources of the pastoral industry through those…
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The butter [?] to December [?] are [?] pounds being an increase [?] the previous year of 9,000,000 pounds The increase in the first half of the current year…
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THE customary annual review and statistics of the Australasian wool trade published by Dalgoty and Company, Limited, from whose Sydney House we have received a copy, deal…
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TOUCHING the statements made in the Federal Parliament re farm wages and the hours of labour, a correspondent of the Melbourne Age makes this surprising statement:—"I…
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Mr. H. O. Roberts informs us that considerable trouble is being experienced in the neighbourhood of Mayfield through the ravages of both dingoes and foxes .A fox…
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