Seed Wheat Rates
The Railway Commissioners, who have from time to time made considerable reductions in the rates for the carriage of stock and fodder, to relieve the distress caused by the drought, have cut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1903
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Dairying on the Northern Rivers. General Conditions Resumed. No. 13
Circumstances beyond the writer's control have caused a very long interval to pass away between penning this and publication of the last contribution…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hearty Reception by Farmers. Expectations More Than Realised. London, Feb. 16
Mr. Chamberlain, after leaving Middelburg, proceeded to Rosmead, and thence to bchombie, at each of which places he had a hearty reception…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pitt Town Labour Farm. Windsor
The full complement of men (50) is now residing at the Pitt Town Casual Labour Farm. The drought is necessarily interfering with farm work. Fencing and wood-cutting are the principal occupations,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires on Farms. Nelson's Bay
On Sunday the heat was 102, and it was very dusty, a north-west wind prevailing. A fire started on Bagnell's farm, three miles out, destroying all the crops and grass, and a horse was burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Strange Letter. Suicide in Farm Cove
A magisterial inquiry was held by the Coroner at the Lloyd Hotel yesterday on the body of a man named Charles Nash, who was seen from H.M.S. Pylades, in Farm Cove,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farms Swept at Crookwell. Fighting the Flames All Sunday. Boys' Carelessness Causes Great Loss
CROOKWELL. Monday.--A big bush lire started on Saturday about three miles from town, close to Mr. Truscott's house. It quickly spread through Messrs. Charles and James Howard's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires. Several Serious Outbreaks. Destroying Growing Crops. Fire Burning Near Nelson's Bay
NELSON'S BAY, Monday.--On Sunday a temperature of 102 was registered, with a disagreeable north-west wind blowing, causing clouds of dust…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter for Export
Those who intend to exhibit in the butter for export competition, at the Royal Agricultural Show, at Sydney, Mr. F. Webster, the secretary, points out, should not forget that the last day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Carcasses of Sheep
An application was made to the Full Court on behalf of James Kent, a fettler, for a rule nisi, calling upan James Danvers Leece, Rainey Mackey, and Josiah Harris, Js.P.,and Constable James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carriage of Wheat
The Minister for Agriculture has made inquiries into certain statements to the effect that, although the Government had publicly announced that all wheat consigned to farmers in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suffolk Sheep. Some Recent Importations
WRITERS on the Suffolk breed of sheep are not altogether agreed on the origin of the breed. Professor Wrightson, in his work on British sheep, says that it is one of the few survivors of…
Continued on Trove, page 395 →Carriage of Seed Wheat
Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, has made inquiries into the statement published in the "Sydney Morning Herald" to the effect that although the Government had publicly announced that all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Afloat London
The amount of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,470,000 quarters, and for the Continent 820,000 quarters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Box for the Transit of Butter
The illustration shows a method of packing the butler by which each pound is isolated, and when unpacked the butter is not handled, but slides out. The partitions are interchangeable in order…
Continued on Trove, page 408 →Butter for Export. Royal Agricultural Society
For fear it should escape the memory of intending exhibitors in the above, at the society's exhibition, attention is called to the conditions (schedule,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairying in Other Lands. Australasian Butter Abroad. Interview with Mr. W. J. M'Veigh
My dairy notes last week gave the outline of some things Mr. W. J. M'Veigh said in the course of a short conversation at the Berry Show, Since then I have had au opportunity to draw the…
Continued on Trove, page 392 →A Local Charge of Sheep Stealing
The central point in the case in which Elmo Richards, a Granville youth, was, at the Parramatta Sessions on Tuesday, charged with the offence of sheep stealing, was the question as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Market. London, Jun. 16
Programmes for the first series of wool auctions hero for the year are now issued. Commencing January 20 they extend to the 31st of the same mouth. The quantities available are as under:…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Comparison of varieties of Wheat
During the season 1901-2, an experiment to test the relative merits of seven varieties of wheat was conducted at the Somerset County Education Committee's farm at Bickenhall, and a report has…
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