Farmyard Manure
The most valuable part of the manure heap is the rich dark liquid that drains off it. We cannot too often remember that every pint of drainage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1912
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The Murrumbidgee Electorate. Farmers and Settlers in the Field. Country Candidate to Be Run
An Electoral Conference of delegates from all the Farmers and Settlers Associations in the Murrumbidgee Electorate was organised by the Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Treatment of Horses. At Wagga Experiment Farm
When horses are led on oats there is a risk of unharmed seed being dropped in the manure, and the land becoming fouled with oats in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enormous Rice Crop. TOKIO
The estimates of the rice crop are 17,000,000 bushels greater than that of 1911…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goulburn Cattle Sale
W. H. Wheatley reports having held his cattle special cattle sale of Thursday last to the largest attendance of buyers seen in Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. WOOL
A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd Report:— Wool has been arriving more freely during the week, and we have now received into store 5,600 bales of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Hotel Robbery. Lenient Sentence Imposed
Harry Buchanan, the young man charged with stealing a large number of bottles of spirits and cigars from Mr. J. J. Byrnes, of the Pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Special Spring Cattle Sale
W. H. Wheatley reports having held his first special spring sale of cattle on Thursday, Sept. 5. to the largest attendance of buyers seen in Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers & Settlers' Association
A meeting of the recently-formed F. & S. Association was held after the Progress meeting, when the following members attended:—Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' and Settlers' Platform. Objective
(a) The return of members to Parliament having a practical knowledge of country districts and requirements generally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Farm Grapes
Our Sydney correspondent wired last night that according to advices received by the Minister for Agriculture, from the Agent-General, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Feeding of Cattle. Rations at Wagga Experiment Farm
In consequence of the poverty of the natural pastures in the home paddock, hand-feeding is an important matter at Wagga Experiment Farm, being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Wheat Crop WASHINGTON
The Agricultural Bureau at Washington estimates a spring wheat yield of 300,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Pit Silos. For Economy and Efficiency
It is some years since pit-silos were adopted at Wagga Experiment Farm in preference to stack-silos; and as the reasons are chiefly matters of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storing & Selling Wheat. Mr. Geo. Ortlipp's Opinions Thereon. Also on Trade Relations with Germany, Etc
Mr George Ortlipp, one of our largest wheat farmers, writes to the Editor, as follows:— "SIR,—I wish to express my views…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm. Let the Pasture Get Up
The one reason why soiling is re-commended is not because it takes work, but because more stock can be kept. By leaving a crop and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Invitation to Farmers
On September the 13th the State Governor will the Experiment Farm at Wagga and a cordianl invitation is extended by the Hon J. L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy Farmers' Defence Fund
ABOUT a year ago there arose a great scare among the dairy farmers of New South Wales owing t the allegedly excessive claims to be placed before the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Poultry. Incubator Chicks. With Special Reference to White Diarrhoea
Four incubators are in pretty constant use in the early spring at Wagga Experiment Farm. The best time for hatching seems to depend on whether…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the Bairns. the Old Farm
The mellow smell of hollyhocks And marigolds and pinks and phlor Blends with the homely garden scents Of onions silvering into rods…
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