Future of Sheep. Bright Prospects
The prospects of the sheep industry never looked brighter than just now. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that there will be a mild kind of boom within the next…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farming & the land, 1912
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Horses Gorged with Wheat
Mr. Charles Hodges, farmer of Budgerabong (N.S.W.), last tour draught horses, valued at £200, recently. The animals got into a wheat crop and before discovered had gorged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Germination of Wheat
The fact that widely different germination of seed takes place under similar rainfall and upon soils equal in their natural features-- even where the question of conserving moisture by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle Killing. Aboriginals in the West
PERTH, Tuesday.--Mr. Male, M.L.A. for Kimberley, speaking in respect of the native spearing of cattle in the north-west, says that in the Leopold Ranges the blacks hunt cattle for sport,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Agricultural and Pastoral the State of the Country
The cool weather that prevailed over New South Wales for some days together with rain that fell, benefited the grass and summer crops; but there was a change in conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Growing. Distributing Good Seed
QUEANBEYAN.—The experimental [?]ots conducted by the Gininderra Farmers' Union were stripped under the supervision of Mr. Rennie. The rainfall during the growth of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Analysis of Bleached Wheat Wanted
The Parkes branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has asked the Minister for Agriculture to have an analysis made of bleached wheat to determine the damage occasioned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat in the Country. STACKED
Following is the return of wheat stacked at various stations on the New South Wales lines during the week ended January 6:-- Wallendbeen 3000 bags, Stockinbingal 19,930 Springdale 3680, Gundabindigal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Deterioration in Federation Wheat
New varieties or sub-varieties of animals and plants have usually to run the gauntlet of severe criticism, and sometimes to withstand assertions which do not bear investigations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Experiment Work in Victoria
Indications point to the Victorian Government making a much-needed step forward in agricultural methods in the immediate future, principally in the direction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Price of Butter and Eggs in Sydney
A further rise took place on January 11 in the Sydney wholesale rates for superfine butter by 2s per cwt, making this grade 126s, or equal to 1s 1½d per lb wholesale. The rise is due…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hints to Producers. Sydney Wheat Prices
The wheatgrowers of New South Wales can depend upon it that at the present time the metropolitan and country millers are anxious "at a price" to make further purchases of prime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. German and Japan Competing
At the Sydney wool sales this afternoon two heavy [?] covering 9773 beles, were submitted to the buyers. The Pastoral Finance Association L[?] 3580 bales, and Harrison…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Loading Damaged Wool. Strike at Port Pirie
PORT PIRIE, Tuesday.--Owing to the dispute in which one of the shipping firms and the wharf men working on the steamer Lameroo on Saturday were concerned, the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Farming. the Business Side
There can be no question about the progress which has been made along various lines of agriculture in the last few years, writes E. A. Markham, buttermaker at the Idaho…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →English Wool Trade. Leading N.S.W. Clips. Prices Contrasted. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 15, 1911
Since I last wrote the sales in Colsmanstreet have come to a finish, and the trade has been given nearly a week in which to consider what actually took place. To say…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Irrigation. Lucerne and Other Crops
It has been pretty well demonstrated (says the "Breeders' Gazette") that it will pay a market gardener to irrigate, if circumstances make it possible to do it thoroughly. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farm Butchering. Value of Knowing How
Very few farmers are expert butchers. It is, however, of great advantage to be able to kill and dress an animal in a satisfactory way. When slaughtering pigs an American…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Italian Farmers. Settlers for the Irrigation Area
A suggestion has been made to the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Trefle) that steps be taken to divert to New South Wales the stream of Italian agriculturists that at present…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dairying. Dairy Shorthorns, at Home and Abroad
There are men well up in years who remember the Illawarra Shorthorns of half a century ago who will tell you that representatives of the breed were then superior to…
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