Pastoral Convention
THE conference of the Pastures Protection Boards was resumed last evening at the Wool Exchange, under the presidency of Mr. J. A. Gunn, M.L.C…
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Farming & the land, 1909
194 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 10
Sheep Dog Trials
AMONG the competition at the sheep dog trials at the Sydney Sheep-breeders' Show were:—John Morrison's (Tralee, Queanbeyan)…
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Schute, Bell and Company Ltd. report under date 6th July as follows :—Recent sales in Brisbane and Antwerp have confirmed the weaker tendency noticeable of late in this…
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Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 13th July as follows:—A better tone has characterised the London sales during the past few days, due in part no doubt to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep or Grouse? Judge Quotes Poetry
Mountain sheep are sweeter, But valley sheep are fatter; We therefore thing it meeter To cultivate the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Care of Dairy Utensils
This is the subject of Bulletin No. 131 Issued by the Kansas Experiment Station, U.S.A. The authors are Professors O. Erf and C. W. Melick. In view…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Care of Farm Teams
When horses are taken in to work from the grass after a long rest they do not need much grain at first, but the quantity should be increased,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Green Feed for Pigs
If pigs are kept continually penned up green feed in some form should be provided to them. Green feed is necessary. It keeps them in health,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Farm Weeds and How to Fight Them
Philosophers tell us that weeds are only "plants out of place." The husbandman admits it, and finds the work of getting them into their place and…
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Farmers' representatives to the Conference this week are mustering in great strength in Sydney. It is expected that upwards of 170 of them will attend, and there is plenty of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Farmers
A few weeks age two English ladies, Miss Brace and Miss Alcock, arrived in Sydney [?]dy agricultural conditions in this State, [?] the object, later on, of starting such a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
Schute Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 19th July as follows:—The most satin. factory feature of the current London sales is the continuance of animated American…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cost of a Canadian Farm
An instance is being largely quoted as to the speed with which a new settler can start farming operations in Canada on virgin soil. An enterprising…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmers and Settlers' Association Commencement of Session
[?] sixteenth annual conference of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association commenced in Sydney on Monday in the wool auction room of the Royal Exchange, with an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. Electricity in Agriculture
Recent experiments have demonstrated that electricity will promote the germination of seed. At the Massachusetts Agricultural College, U.S.A. in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Supervision in the Argentine
The growth of the demand for Argentina butter in Europe, chiefly for Great Britain, has induced the Government of the Republic to enact stringent…
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At the Conference on Friday the suggestion from Labour quarters that an export tax should be placed on wheat brought a motion from Kelvin, moved by Mr. H. J…
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The Conference concluded on Tuesday last, After a motion being carried in favor of increasing the military forces the conference next applied itself to the means of providing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Homebush Sale Yards. Farmers and Settlers' Resolution
At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference the following resolution was carried:— "That this conference enters a strong and emphasie protest, on behalf of the producers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shelter for Cattle
In a useful paper on "Artificial Shelter for Cattle," read by Mr Wade, County Instructor, before the North Kildare Farming Society, Ireland, a trial…
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