Experimental Farms
The Minister for Mines and Agriculture (Mr. J. Kidd) recently visited the Wagga Wagga Experimental Farm, and has made several new arrangement of the lines on which this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming & the land, 1902
5,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 250
The Farmers'and Settlers' Co-operation Association. Half-yearly Meeting
The half-yarly meeting of the above society at which the interim balance-sheet was presented was held at the robins of the society, Queen Victoria Markets, on Friday and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Bathurst Experimental Farm
FARM BUILDING AND ORCHARD, 30 ACRES. VIEW IN IRRIGATION AREA. LAMBS FOR EXPORT…
Continued on Trove, page 221 →Bathurst Experimental Farm
THE Bathurst Government Experimental Farm is situated on the site of the old racecourse, and has an area of 600 acres. Its elevation is about 2,200ft above sea level. The soil is of a mixed character, suitable…
Continued on Trove, page 220 →Dairy. Food for a Dairy Cow
In few places are the scientific methods of feeding dairy cattle so as to give the best possible results carried on to a greater extent than in the United States and Canada. (Experiments take place in Great…
Continued on Trove, page 201 →The Farmer. Queensland Coffee
Mr. Howard Newport, the coffee expert of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, was in Sydney last week, commissioned to inquire into the state of the Southern coffee markets, the quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 201 →Weather, Pastures, and Crops
Patchy rain, high winds, great heat, bush fires, and dust storms, have been the prevailing features for the week ending, Tuesday, the 21st instant. At Armidale and Manning Heads about an inch of rain,…
Continued on Trove, page 204 →Storm at Maclean. Farmers Suffer Severely
MACLEAN, Friday. -- The intense heat of Wednesday culminated in a severe storm on the lower end of the river at night in the vicinity of Chatsworth. Buildings were unroofed and trees blown…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Unique Pigeon Farm
A unique pigeon farm which is undoubtedly the largest in the world, is to be found at Los Angeles, in the State of California. At present there are some…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Value of Various Fertilisers on the Maize Crop
A bulletin has recently been issued by the Alabama Agricultural Experimental Station, U.S.A., giving the results of maize culture during a series of years. Among other…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Deyeloping Dairy Calves
How shall we train and mature the dairy calf is a question of much importance, and, in my opinion, one which will to a great extent determine the usefulness of the dairy herd. The…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Dairying and Soil Exhaustion
Dairying (says Professor Henry Stewart) is the least exhaustive use to which the soil con be put. An equivalent product of milk removes from the soil less of all the valuable fertilising…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Our Lemon Crop. to the Editor
Sir,—In Rushlight's "Comments and Conceits" reference is made to products obtainable from lemons and oranges, with particular mention of the case of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Member of the Water Board Says: Make Farmers of Them
Mr. David Davis, a member of the Water and Sewerage Board, is a gentleman who has travelled a great deal, especially in America, and has always taken an interest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pastoral Products
The following quantities of wool were manifested on Saturday:--By rail, 670 hales; coastwise, 413 bales; received by rail at Newcastle on Friday last, 48 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Agricultural and Pastoral
BARRABA, Wednesday.—Pastoral interests are very seriously affected in this district, as in all others adjoining it by the severity of the protracted drought in the north-west. There is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Specie and Butter
The R.M.S. Himalaya took away from Sydney on Saturday for London 6400 bars bullion, snipped by the Sulphide Corporation, and nine bars of dore bullion, shipped by the Smelting Company…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Coonamble
The P. and A. Association's show will be held on May 14 and 15. GLEN INNES, Saturday. A meeting of the P. and A. Society of Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Trade
A very fair week's business was done, the sales at auction representing over 80 per cent, of the quantity catalogued, whilst private sales of previously offered and uncatalogued wools sw[?]lled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →