Wool-classing in New Zealand
Wool-classing is becoming a popular branch of the New Zealand technical education system. Managers, produce agents, wool clerks, and auctioneers are…
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Wool Classes in the Country
Mr. Alired Hawkesworth, Lecturer-in-Charge of the sheep and wool department at the Sydney Technical College left on Wednesday evening for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ensilage As Sheep Fodder. Recommended for Fattening Lambs
An experienced American farmer who has experimented with ensilage upon all liads of stock writes to his Josal farm journal with regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Black and Grey Hairs in Wool
Tho council of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce convened a meeting of the wool Merchants, Spinners, and manufacturing sections for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the Land. Farm and Station. in the Wheat Belt. the Railway to Urana. Opening New Southern Country. Xix
The extension of the railway from Lockhart to Urana—the new line was opened last month in time for the wheat—will open up fresh wheat country. There have already been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Worm Nodules a Cattle Parasite of Sub-tropical Australia
Worm- nodules or worm-nests in Australian cattle are the result of an irritation set up by the presence of long delicate round worms or nematodes,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Homebush Stock Market. Sheep. Not Up to Previous High Rates
Now that the holidays are over, and working conditions becoming normal, supplies are more in keeping with the usual dimensions than was the case during the past two weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →European Wool Markets. (From Our Special Correspondents.) Leipzig, December [?]
AS far as can be judged now values for raw wool appear to have touched the bottom. Consumers operate with more confidence, although still moderately, but if the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Career of a Wool Team. Holt Down Hill. Delegate
A peculiar accident [?]appened with a wool team on Corrowong Hill, just outside the town. The driver, E. Christopher, had the team standing on the brow of the hill, while…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wool Trade. New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Report
The Sydney market is still in recess and practically no business has been transacted during the week. Interest has been directed to Hobart and Launceston, where…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →General Review of the Markets Produce Sales Wheat SYDNEY. Lindisv Walker an De
Wheat business has improved very much this Week, and buyers both here aud in London are now prepared to negotiate for prompt and forward wheat on fairly liberal terms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Can the Farmer Stand It?
Mr. John Flanagan, Gunbar, writes: —It is the fashion just now to demand higher wages and higher salaries because the prices of food have increased…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Average Return of Price and Crop of Oranges
"Citrus," Neutral Bay, writes:—What ought to be a fair average price per case in an average season for 1300 gin cases of oranges from a good orange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Produce
Orders for dairy produce have come in somewhat better since the Xmas festivities, bait the stock of bacon is still high, and prices have again eased…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Champion Dairy Cow
"Pontine Clothilde De Kol 2nd," the "champion dairy cow" (in America, of course), was calved December 23, 1903, in the Brookside herd, long maintained by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Dairy Cow
A noted American dairyman says that when striving to produce a profitable dairy cow we must breed and develop an enlarged function of maternity; the dairy cow is an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers' Wools
In a lecture to farmers in West Australia, Professor Lowrie, Director of Agriculture, called special attention to the necessity of putting wool on the market in a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Severe Storm in the West. Fruit Crops Damaged
BATHURST. Friday.—A violent storm accompanied by hall, vivid lightning, and heavy thunder and a strong wind passed over Bathurst shortly before 12 o'clock to-day. Hailstones…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Selecting Seed Maize Practical Advice That All Farmers May Follow. to Prevent Exhaustion and Inbreeding
Mr. J. J. Graham read an instructive address an "Selecting Maize Seed," at a recent meeting of the Tyndale Farmers' Union. At the outset,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the Farm Table Apples and Bigouit Crumes
[?] and cut into [?] about a pound of [?] apple [?] them in a [?] with [?]…
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