London Wool Sales
WINCHCOMBE Carson Ltd., have received the following cable from London:—London March wool sales opened with large attendance of both home and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1914
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Whole Wheat and White Flour. a Convincing Experiment
A desire to know the effect of whole wheat mid white flour as foods led Dr. Harold Swanberg to experiment on mice, and the results…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairy. What Dairy Farming Does
What does dairy farming do for the man and the farm ? It places in the hands of the man who follows dairying for his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool
THE A. M. L. & F Co., report:—News from London as to the opening of the sales now in progress in that centre is highly satisfactory, indicating as it does…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Estimating the Weight of Cattle
Measure round the animal close behind the shoulder, then along the back from the fore part of the shoulder Made to the bone at the tail. Multiply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Importance of Water to Crops
Experiments conducted for the past fourteen years have led to the following conclusions of interest to the practical farmer in the matter of rotation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Field. Rotations and Fertilisers
Through the judicious selection of a suitable preceding crop for the following crop, it is practicable to increase and render more certain the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm. Inoculation of Lucerne
Crops all require nitrogen for their growth. An advantage possessed by lucerne and other leguminous crops is that they are not dependent on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Field. Original Article. Cultivation
The rush of harvest is over and farmers are busily engaged ploughing and cultivating for catch crops and preparing stubble land for grassing down,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dairy. Girls for the Dairy Farm
That life on the farm can be made an ideal one we do not doubt; but as the labour question is at present, we think—on some farms at least…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →270,000 Sheep. Motor Cyclists and Shearers. Fast Work in the Back Country
ON Wednesday afternoon a team of motor cyclists left Mr. W. Johnson's motor garage at Forbes, bound for Queanbeyan. These were the M'Innes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Field. Original Article. Applying Fertilisers
With regard to nitrate of soda, there is no uncertainty; it should be applied as a top-dressing when the young plants appear above the ground. On heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter and Margarine
On a rough estimate not more than 50 or 60 tons of margarine is produced every week in Australia. The next few, weeks may witness the first stages of definite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rural Workers Effect on Farmers
The threatened labour trouble at next harvest, together with the difficulty of getting suitable labour at a price which enables the farmer to see a profit for his outlay (says…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm. Why Girls Leave the Farm
So much has been said about why boys leave the farm, but how about the girls? What right has a girl on the farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cement in the Dairy
In our visits among the dairy farms, the creameries and the cheese factories it is gratifying to note the increasing tendency to use cement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Alfa-laval" Cream Separator. Is the Breath of the Dairying Industry
THE enormous development of the dairying industry in this State during the last thirty years is almost entirely due to the introduction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quick Profits in Cattle
FOR those in search of quick profits, cattle breeding is not usually considered an attractive proposition. But the experience of a North Western stockowner shows that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and Fertilisers
A farmer should first take earn that all the farmyard manure produced a his farm should be property utilised, and should see that this valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Field. Original Article. Domesticating Bacteria
Arable soil in capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen by menus of bacterial activity, but exactly how this takes place and how such action can…
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