Development in Mutton Sheep
The increasing popularity of the Shropshire and other mutton sheep in Australia is a very encouraging development. In many of the good districts of this State one finds at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1904
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WOOL. Weekly Review
Tuesday. The first round of monthly auctions for the winier series ot sales took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, of last week, and in spite of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Yesterday's Prices. Wheat Easier
The quiet tone ruling in wheat circles lately was more pronounced yesterday, when prime milling, samples were quoted from 3s to 3s 0½d per bushel. The prevailing depression…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Barbarous Method of Handling Cattle
There are quite a number of places where bullocks are "loaded" and "unloaded" in the manner of the sketch. That the system is cruel who will doubt, but what is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
The Australasian Mortgage and A. Company, Limited, report:—As our wool sales to-day we had good competition, and for crossbreds the last prices were fairly maintained. Merinos, however, were easier, especially in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool Sales. (By Cable.)
At the wool sales competition was steady at imcdianged prices. There were some withdrawals of merttioes. The following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:—Borambil [?]d, Glenside 8[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Injured by a Bag of Wheat
Whilst Robert Love, a wharf- labourer, was engaged in loading a vessel with wheat at Darling Island yesterday a bag of the grain slipped from the elevator used in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairying Industry. Aids to the Work. Stimulating the Manufacturers. Stall-feeding of Cattle, Advantages of the Milking Machine
Mr. Potts, the principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, furnishes, through Mr. Campbell, Director of Agriculture, some interesting matter in regard to dairying, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wool Sales. London, March 21
At the wool sales to-day the market was brisk, and prices were firm. Crossbreds had a hardening tendency. March 22…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wheat Fleet Inward and in Port
The attached list shows at a glance the vessels that have been chartered to load this season's wheat in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australian ports :—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Turn Your Crops Into Dairy Products
From the first, Professor Robertson (of Ontario Agricultural College) has maintained that grain, fodder, and hay, when sold by the farmer, carry away vastly more of the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Fire on a Farm. Cooma
A large wheat shed containing 22 tons of wheaten hay and 8 tons of caten hay, the property of Mr. A. Wallace, was burnt to the ground on his farm, near Jindabyne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Failure of the Lands Department
It is gratifying to know that no absurd false modesty on the part of the Lands administration is keeping the progress of settlement dark from the public. The department, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Crops
BINGARA.—The light, steady showers during the past 24 hours will greatly invigorate the grass, and will also enable ploughing to be proceeded with for the early crops…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Victorian Poultry Farm
Extensive poultry yards are rather the exception than the rule in Victoria, and as we frequently have read of large plants for the rearing of purebred stock in New youth Wales, it may be of interest to give your…
Continued on Trove, page 715 →Windsor Farm
Mr. James Gosper has only three Windsor Farm bred yearlings this year, but among them is a bay filly by Beauchamp (imp.) from Bonnette (3)—the dam of Bonnibel, Jim…
Continued on Trove, page 759 →The Farmer. Implements on the Farm
The importance of using good implements on the farm can hardly be over-estimated. This is a progressive age, and success in farming can only be achieved by adopting…
Continued on Trove, page 717 →DAIRY. Value of Dairy Meetings
Dairy farmers should use every endeavour to educate themselves to thoroughly understand the business they are engaged in. Conferences are sometimes held in this State…
Continued on Trove, page 717 →The Value of a Sunflower Crop
Apropos of the report of the Armidale show re the fine sunflowers grown in the district, the following from the South African "Gardeners' Chronicle," but which actually saw the light in another horticultural…
Continued on Trove, page 721 →A Fiscal Lesson for Farmers. to the Editor
Sir,--The letter bearing the above heading, and signed by Mr. J. Sparks, which appeared in your issue of the 8th inst., in comment of your leader of same title in issue of the 11th, dealing…
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