English Dairy Shorthorn Cattle
The picture on this page of a dairy Shorthorn cow, which figured as a prominent prize-winner at the recent London Dairy Show, held under the auspices of the British Dairy Farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Farming & the land, 1908
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Pastoral. a Retrospect
In many respects the year 1907 will long to remembered by all classes of the agricultural community for the many set-backs the various industries encountered. At the same time the…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →Queensland Butter
BRISBANE.—During last week 5827 boxes of butter were examined by the Government graders…
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MELBOURNE.—The butter shipments by the Mongolia on Tuesday comprised 637½ tons from Melbourne…
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LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom amounts to 2,360,000 quarters, or 160,000 quarters more than last week; and the shipments afloat to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Contagious Abortion in Dairy Cattle Estimated Heavy Annual Loss
Speaking on the subject of contagious abortion in dairy cattle at a meeting of dairy farmers at Mullumbimby recently, Mr. J. Siddins, touching on the financial loss occasioned by the disease,…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Sheep for Western Australia
Wood and Armstrong (J. B. Wood and Warwick W. Armstrong), stock and station agents, The Olderfleet, Collins-street, Melbourne, report having sold to the West Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat Standard
The corn trade section of the Chamber of Commerce has fixed the standard sample of wheat for the current year at 63lb to the bushel. Last year it was 62½lb…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victorian Wool Exhibits
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Wool exhibits from some of the best studs in the western district, and other parts of the State, are now being packed at the offices of the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australasian Wool Exports
The Australasian export figures relating to our staple product as compiled by Dalgety and Co., Ltd., are scarcely on the same basis as those of the Customs Department [?]he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Launceston Wool Sales
LAUNCESTON, Monday.--At the Launceston annual wool sales held to-day conditions were generally very disappointing. Six thousand, five hundred bales were offered, but there were several heavy withdrawals,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Decline in Size of Sheep
The subject of the decline in the size of sheep, discussed in the "Mail" of December 16 last, was alluded to by several stockmen at the Homebush saleyards on Monday last…
Continued on Trove, page 78 →On Our Early Sheep History
It is nearly twelve months since my readers were given some additional information on the early history of the wool industry in Australia. It was then mentioned that there…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →Tee State's Wheat Crop. Total Yield. 8,682,117 Bushels
With the exception of a few cold corners, the wheat for this season has been garnered in New South Wales. The progress of the harvest, and probable results, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 79 →PASTORAL. The Season in New South Wales
Satisfactory reports of the condition of the country from an agricultural, pastoral, grazing, and dairying point of view, continue to be received from some parts of New South Wales;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat in the Country. STACKED
The following is a return of wheat stacked at various New South Wales stations on December 28: -- Stockinbingal 3000 bags, Temora 7097, Barmedman 761, Wyalong 250, Henty 4145. Walla…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soil Settlement and Production. How to Improve Our Wheat Crops. Some Useful Suggestions
In the other States of the Commonwealth vastly more attention is now being paid to wheat-breeding and scientific wheat-growing thin was the case a few years ago. The same…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →General Notes. Arsenic Dip for Cattle Tick
According to the latest American flies, considerable interest has been aroused among stock owners in Texas, by the so-called "discovery" of a new dip for tick-infested cattle, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stud, Flock, and Herd. Footrot in Sheep
Discussing this disease in a recent number of the Victorian "Agricultural Journal," Mr. S. S. Cameron, M.R.C.V.S., chief veterinary officer to the Government of that State, after explaining…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Capacity of Wheat Sacks. Victoria Objects
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--It is not the intention of the State Government to come into line with the Commonwealth in fixing the maximum capacity wheat sacks…
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