Commercial. Wool Reports
Schute, Bell and Co., report under date 22nd January :—The easier tendency noticeable in lower quality wools at the closing sales of last week was decidely less apparent at…
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Farming & the land, 1907
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Sydney Wool Sales
THE Sydney wool sales were continued on Tuesday afternoon. Buyers were in strong muster, and competition was keen throughout, all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Improving Corn
IT is of great importance to give great attention to the selection of sead, ines much as the kind of corn harvested. depends no much upon the kinds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Calender for January
The cool weather and showers have been a great help to growing crops, and as the soil is ready for space available large areas of millet,…
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CURRENT revents now point to the fact that the New South Wales assisted [?]migration scheme is proving a dis[?]nct success, and is the means or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. Drill and Broadbent
It is generally understood that it is more advantageous’ to apply artificial fertilisers to the soil with the drill instead of sowing the manure…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Training Boys in Farm Work
ONE of the disabilities under which city boys labour is that there is no institution where they can receive practical instruction in agricultural work, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Crop
It is estimated that the wheat yield during, this season will fee 24,034,000 bushels from 1,967,200 acres, or a little i than. 121 bushels per acre. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Phenomenal Butter Producer
A correspondent writes:— The coholding the record for butter production in Australia, H not in the world, is owned by Mr. Tiiomas Darcy, of Collie…
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Dalgety and Company, Limited, report under date 25th January :—We submitted our fourteenth catalogue of the season (six thousand six hundred bales) this week to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Calender for January
The cool weather and showers have been a great help to growing crops, and as the soil is ready for space available large areas of millet,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Experiments with Wheat
Mr P. Baker, of Virginia, South Australia, during the last two seasons has sown is different kinds of wheat, to experiment on their productiveness with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Growing Wheat fey Electricity
Good results were recently obtained in South Australia from en experiment carries out in growing wheat by electricity. It was only done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Utilising Farm Yard Manure
The "Southern Planter," published at Virginka, U.S.A., concludes some lengthy calculations as to the value of farm yard manure with the following words of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. Improvements In Swingle-Trees
At a recent meeting of the members or the Farmers' Association at Reeve's Plains, South ustralia, Mr Shepherd gave a practical demonstration of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy. Prevention of Self-sucking
The plan to put some nasty tasting stuff on the teats of cows addicted to self-sucking is of no good. A better way in to put a bridle on her head, with a…
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Messrs: Hill, Clark and Co. report:—The wool market still shows spirited competition, but generally the wool is in very much heavier condition, and this accounts for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sales of British Breeds of Sheep
For several years past sales Ml sheep of these breeds i e., Lincolns, Leicesters, Romney-Marsh, Shropshire and South-down, have been held at the end of June…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Price for Scoured Wool
Mr. William Carson, Wool Broker of 19 Macquarie Place, Sydney, reports having effected the sale of a parcel of scoured wool at 25d per lb, which constitutes a record for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Improving Potatoes
VERY much can be accomplished toward improving potatoes by carefully selecting the seed. Of course a great deal depends on the condition and circumstances…
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