England's Butter Consumption
Great Britain consumes nearly 300,000 tons of butter a year. The amount of butter, or rather its value, exceeds that of every other article…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1911
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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiment of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fodder Crops on the South Coast. R. N. MAKIN, Acting Inspector of Agriculture. [Reprinted from the April Agricultural Gazette.]
WEATHER conditions were much against a satisfactory germination of seed sown for winter experiments in 1010. During April, May, and the greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local News. Fodder Growing for Sheep
Now that sheep have come into to much prominence in this district since the inception of the dry season, the following may undoubtedly prove interesting to local sheep farmers;—At a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These notes will be issued every week under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle) and are based mainly on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rotation of Crops
Rotation of crops is an absolute necessity in maintaining soil fertility Continuous cropping with cereals aided by commercial fertilisers, exhausts an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judging the Age of Sheep by the Teeth
Few buy a horse without opening the mouth and examining the teeth. They are one of the most certain guides to age. The cow's mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer
During recent years investigations on the production of new and useful zebra hybrids have made progress at the Experimental Station of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture. Wheat Sowing
EXPECTING early rains, farmers have been sowing large areas of wheat. The danger of this practice lies in there being enough moisture in the soil to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Better Farms and Farmers
In America the Roosevelt Country Life Commission, and in Britain the Carrington Committee, have in turn investigated the dual question of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia's Cattle King. His Many Herds. a Strange, Career
On the Australian steamer Asturias, which reached London last evening after calling at Plymouth (writes the "Daily Chronicle" of 5th May)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pigs for Small Farmers
There is one advantage about pigs that make them emphatically the stock for the small farmer, and that is the very quick returns which they afford,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. Short Weights in Manure And Twine
At a meeting of the South Australian Board of Agriculture, held last week in Adelaide, a letter was read from the secretary of the Port Pirie Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Psalm of Farm Life
Tell me not in broken measures Modern farming does not pay, For the farm produces chickens, And the hens—do they not lay?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer
Do not on any account set the horses to ploughing in poor condition. They should enter upon the busy season with muscles and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales
Dalgety & Company, wool salesmen, Sydney report:-- The next wool sales in the Sydney market are fixed to take place on June 20th and when about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land Agriculture Lucerne and Other Fodder Crops
Farmers should certainly give more earnest consideration to the growing of fodder crops. The eduction of plants for stock feeding has many advantages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes will be Issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…
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