Dairying Profits
Recently there have been published a number of instances of large prices for dairy produce and large yields from dairy herds In the Taranaki (N.Z.) district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1907
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Farm and Garden Answers to Correspondents
GUINEA GRASS.—Would pigs do any good on gyinea grass?—Z. (Ourimbah). OWLS WITH BAD EYES (to "Constant Reader"): Your fowls are suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Free Land for Farmers
Lot the Government open up areas of fair quality land and offer It free to men who will put in a stipulated area of cro (suggests the "Farmer and Settler"), or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Getting a Start at Farming
To the Editor.—I am much interested in your forming and gardening notes, and look forward every Sunday to a quiet perusal of your interesting paper. I have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assisting the Farmer with Loans
The following questions have been submitted to the Savings Bank Commissioners. Their answers ore attached:— J.H. asks: Do you think the Savings…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Warwick Farm
In the forenoon to-morrow Mr. J. Daly's weights for the several races to be run at Warwick Farm next Saturday will ne declared…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Office Drudgery and Farm Life
Generally speaking the lot of tho clerk is not calculated to arouse envy on the port of toilers in other walks of life. Increased educational facilities have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bankstown Farmlets
Messrs. Arthur Richard and Co., Ltd. report that at their auction held yesterday on the ground of the "Bankstown Farmlets," Bankstown, there was a record attendance,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Soil Settlement and Production. the Bathurst, Farm. Value of Crop Rotation. Sheep As Money Makers
To judge the Bathurst district solely on its crop returns would be to conclude that it had become a very poor one; to judge it on the results obtained at the Government experimental…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victorian Butter Export. Melbourne
During the week ended Friday last 620[?] tons of butter, valued at £62,075, were exported from Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Wool for America
Attention has been attracted in the United States to the heavy purchases of Australian wool on American account at local wool sales and in London. Large purchases are also said…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Selling Children Like Sheep. to Meet Heavy Taxation
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It has been reported to the Persian Parliament that the peasants in Khorassan are selling their children like sheep to Turcomans at Askabad,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Humorous Fruit Regulations
The fuss which is being made in Victoria over the reputed invasion of the fruit fly from New South Wales adds another Joke to the long list of comicalities in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meetings of Farmers
PEAK HILL.—The Pastoral and Agricultural Association has let a contract for £294 10s for the erection of a new industrial hall on the show ground. The following officers have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bankstown Farmlets
Messrs. Arthur Rickard and Co., Limited, report that at the auction held on Saturday on the ground of the Bankstown farmlets, Bankstown, 1500 people were present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Helps Wool
It has often been argued in these columns thai the expansion of the agricultural area assists rather than hinders the development of the wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep in a Corn Crop
It frequently happens in the production of a corn crop that sonic grass and weeds will get such a start that the cultivator fails to keep them in check…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Cattle Manure
J.A.P., SEVEN-HILLS, writes:--"In one of my paddocks I have lying about a quantity of dry cattle manure, which, from its appearance, would lead one to believe that the properties forming the fertiliser have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The British Butter Bill
The Butter Bill introduced into the House, of Commons will be operative from January 1, 1908. It provides for the registration and inspection of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Breeding for Mutton
Following is the text of a lecture on the mutton breeds of sheep recently delivered before the Gunning P.A. and I. Society, by Mr. E. H. Turner…
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