Farmers' Unions
In these days when the States departments are devoting so much attention to the education of the farmer it is always well to remember that the farmers can by mutual…
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Farming & the land, 1909
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Local Authorities' Dairy Manual. to the Editor
SIR,—I beg to draw the attention of local shire councils to the statement contained in the preface, paragraph 3, of the dairy manual just issued. The words to which I specially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat and Wool Returns
The particulars supplied regarding the wheat received at Darling Island during the past week show that 14,000 bags came in, thus giving an increase of 9,540. Over a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Co-operation in the Butter Trade
Since the first butter was built in Australia in 1883 a full half million of dairy farmers' capital has been ab[?]orbed in the construction of the numerous…
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The phenomenal success of the North Coast as dairying centre has a wakened the interest of farmers in all parts of the Commonwealth, and any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney's R.a.s. Easter Show the Royal Easter Show, 1909. Record Total of Entries, 7000. Horse Entires, 1100. Cattle, 900. Five District Societies' Exhibits. a Magnificent Display
To the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales is due the credit of saying that the Royal Easter Show of 1909, in several essential and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Farmer Killed
John Tanner, farmer at Gretta, was killed on Tuesday night near Wangaratta (Vic) He had been at Glenrowan, and was returning with his brother in a waggon with four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experimental Farm Managers
The Minster for Agriculture has had his attention drawn to some correspondence in the daily pr[?] urging that [?] but practical men should be chaen as managers of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report
Butter.—On Monday, the 26th April, the price was advanced to loos, but buyers, both local and interstate, were very keen on securing parcels, consequently a further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Labor Farms
The Victorian Minister for Public Works (Mr. Balilien) who recently visited the New South Wales labor colonies, states that he was greatly impressed with what he saw,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Shipments From New South Wales
The Minister for Agriculture is in receipt of an encouraging report showing a large increase in the exports of butter from this State to the United Kingdom. As tending…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experimental Farming
Owing to the dry season the Government experimental plots have been an utter failure in several parts of the Wollongong district, especially those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dissatisfied Dairymen
A meeting of dairymen at Gund[?]ga[?] on Wednesday carried a [?]ntion protesting against the unnecessary instructions which are being enforced by the local authority…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Terrible Experience
Andrew Bond, [?]., a farmer at Little Plains, was taken to the Cooma hospital on Monday, suffering from a [?] and paralysis of the right side, the result…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Terrible Experience
Andrew Bond, senr. a farmer, of Little Plains, Jingers, was taken to the Cooma Hospital on Monday suffering from a fractured skull and paralysis of the right side…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Mortality of Cattle
A peculiar case of wholesale poisoning among cattle his just been investigated by officers of the Victorian Stock Department. The Chief Veterinary Officer received a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milking Machine Patents. a Warning to Dairymen
The "LK.G" Milking Machine having proved an abenlute [?] after seven years [?], a crop of weak imitation has come along, and whereby warn dairyman against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dry Farming
Mr. T. Pascoe, M L C, of South Australia, who it the pioneer of dry farming in that State, says:— "My farm is three miles east of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Growing in a Mine
A curious discovery was recently made in an unused level in one of the big mines at Broken Hill. A miniature crop of wheat nearly 2ft, high was found growing at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report
Butter—The market is very firm, all choice butter malling [?] at 124s. Other grades are painful and difficult to sell from 100 to 20…
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