On the Land. Farm and Station. Show Luncheons. and Smoke Nights
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 9
The action taken by the Tenterfield Show committee will probably commend itself to most frequenters of country shows. It has been decided that speech-making at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Experimental Farms. General Scheme Foreshadowed. Improving the Quality of Stock
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 9
BATHURST, Friday.--Mr. J. Perry, Minister for Agriculture, told a press interviewer last night that he had a general scheme with reference to experimental farms pretty well thought…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 8
The Minister for Agriculture has just returned from a brief visit to the Bathurst Experimental Farm. Mr. Perry's chief object was to look over the new college buildings, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Archdeacon Abbott. Meeting of Upper Nemingha Farmers
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 9
TAMWORTH, Friday.--The first note has been struck by parishioners, or part of therm, regarding the resignation of Archdeacon Abbott. The members of the church residing at Upper…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool and Wheat
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 7
The amount of wool received at Darling Harbor during the week was 1650 bales, a decrease of 1213 bales on the receipts for the corresponding week of last year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep and Tillage
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
Among the reasons why farmers should combine sheep keeping with their tillage are that sheep will eat a great many kinds of weeds which other animals will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Warning to New South Wales Farmers. What Queensland 'Offers. (To the Editor.)
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 12
Sir,—I notice in your issue of February 16 an article headed "A Warning to New South Wales Farmers," ostensibly the result of an interview with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm and Garden
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
A Kaituna (N.Z.) farmer has. according to the Christchurch Press, sold 8000 bushels of barley at 5/10 on the trucks, and his crop averaged 60.45 bushels per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Agricultural College Poultry Farm
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
Mr. C. Clarke has been poultry overseer at tho Dookie Agricultural College, Victoria, for the past six years, and when he says that the poultry branch at that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Small Farmer
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
Tho Wyong correspondent of the "Gosford Times" writes —"The farm of Mr. Ayerst, at Wyong, which I hear has been purchased by Mr. Atchison, is one of those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Her Majesty's—"the Dairymaids."
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
The popularity of "The Dairymaids" shows no sign of abatement, and another delighted audience last night received this bright production with every mark of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improvement in Dairy Produce
Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 7
As the result of reports made by officers visiting the dairying districts, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Perry) states that in some parts dairy farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Music and Drama "Prisoner of Zenda" Drawing Well "Dairymaids" Still in Favour New Melodrama at the Criterion
The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 2
Generously mounted and well acted "The Prisoner of Zenda" completed a successful week at the Theatre Royal last night. On points the performance was better than the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs Unchanged Cattle Cheaper
Evening News · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 5
At the Homebush stock sales this afternoon, 6620 sheep and lambs were drawn for sale, but only 5361 "were penned. The supply consisted principally of good trade sorts to prime, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Straying Cattle
The Australian Star · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 2
For some time past the residents of Paddington and Woollahra have been annoyed by numbers of cattle roaming at random through the municipalities. One ratepayer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Butter Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 9
Cables published on Saturday showed the London butter market to be in a satisfactory position, steady sales being made at prices about 20/ per cwt higher than at this time…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Soil Settlement and Production General Notes. Returns of Wheat and Wool
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 9
During the past week 13,439 bags of wheat were received at Darling Island. This was a decrease of 110,266 bags on the similar week last year. The total for the season amounts to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat in South Africa
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 9
Wheat growing is going ahead in South Africa. The "Cape Argus" recently published news from Mase[?] that the Basutoland natives and farmers in the Ladybrand and Ficksburg districts are delighted with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Methodist Conference. Pastoral Session. The Methodist Conference resumed in pastoral session at 9.30 a.m. Saturday, PROBATIONERS
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 9
A brief discussion took place over an application from one of the probationers, who had failed to pass the examining committee for a reconsideration of his case…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Sources of Wheat Supply
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 9
The position might be different if foreign wheat was elbowing our wheat out of the English market. But the fact is that that market can absorb all the wheat which British…
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