The Wheat Harvest
The harvest prospects at Guyra have been greatly enhanced by the recent rains. Good crops are now assured…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming & the land, 1908
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Australia's First Wool
From the author we have received a ropy of a 70 p.p. brochure entitled "History of the Founding of the Wool Industry of Australia," by Charles E…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Milk As Cow Feed
An endless chain arrangement has been invented by Professor Oscar Erf, of the Kansas state agricultural college, who takes buttermilk and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clubhead, a Promising Wheat
A very popular wheat in the Malice district of Victoria, according to a contemporary, is Clubhead. Mr. J. Gibbs, of Lameroo South, had a crop…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Size of Wheat Bags
At length a definite decision has been arrived at in connection with the regulation size of corn sacks. The Minister for Trade and Customs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Freight to Canada Not Obtainable
ONE of the topics of the hour is an "All Red" route from England to Australia via Canada. and judging by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Government Wool Expert
It is rumoured that a Government wool expert, or rather a lecturer and demonstrator on woolgrowing and its preparation for market, is likely to be appointed under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The National Wool Institute
There is an ever-increasing demand for instruction in the various branches of the sheep-shearing business. It's [?] work and each successive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Great Wool Clip
"Merino" writes re the following telegram from Bathurst, which appeared in these columns on Tuesday:— Messrs. Anderson Bros., of Fremantle, nea[?] Bathurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Notes. New Wheat Varieties
Regarding the work of wheat-breeding now being carried on in this State under the control of Mr. G. L. Sutton, manager of the Cowra Experimental Farm, it was stated in yesterday's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A £46,000 Wool Clip
Messrs. Anderson Brothers, of Fremantle, near Bathurst, have just completed shearing, and show a record wool clip, having shorn 85,000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wool Trade Dalgety & Company, Limited
The attention of the wool trade is now directed towards the resumption of sales which has been re-arranged to take place in this market on Tuesday, 21st instant, whilst the London January…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The R.m.s. Macedonia Sydney People for London Big Butter Shipment
The P. and O, liner Macedonia is to leave Sydney for London at noon to-morrow. She carries a large number of passengers home, including many well-known people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Australia's the Place!" Beating America in Sheep-breeding. the Power of the Trusts
"The sheep industry in America is carried on in a most primitive way, and is many years behind the times." This is the verdict of Mr. B. Chaffey, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official Organ: "The Farmer and Settler."
Objects: To unite all the farmers' unions and settlers' associations in New South Wales under one executive council, using the same general laws and pursuing the same general intentions and desires, in precisely similar methods, (or the reform of the land and other laws bearing directly upon the interests of the settlers of the state; to strenuously encourage and foster land…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official Organ: "The Farmer and Settler."
Objects: 1. To represent and promote in every legitimate way the pastoral interests of New South Wales.2. To be the medium of communication between the pastures boards and Ministers. 3. To watch the administration of, and urge upon the attention of Ministers, any alteration in the disenses in sheep acts, pastures acts, imported stock nets, private acts, amending acts, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Without Capital
Mr. Alex. Davis, of Woodlands, Gilmore, who won the second prize in the "Herald" and "Mail" slopes and plains farms competition this year…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Official Organ: "The Farmer and Settler."
Objects: To watch over and protect the rights and privileges of the associated societies; to take action in relation to any subject, or to any legislation affecting their interests; to bring about such a union of the societies as will enable reasonable influence to be brought to bear in any desirable direction; to bring about uniformity of rules as far as practicable; to compile a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Did Not Know His Own Farm
A certain real estate agent is fond of telling an experience he once had with a farmer. The farmer came to him with the intelligence that he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Produce
Despite the holiday influences on the market, wheat has advanced, and to-day there are buyers at from 4/5 to 4/7, according to terms of delivery…
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