Crops for Dairy Cattle
Constant Reader: If the soil is in a suitable condition, early sorghum, sow broadcast, or in rows 3ft apart, or whit French or Japanese millet, broadcasted,…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Farming & the land, 1919
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Butter Scotch
Take 2 cups of sugar, 2 tablespoons of water, nuts if desired, butter the size of an egg. Put all together into a saucepan, and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Coming Wheat Harvest
Mr. J. B. Trivett, New South Wales Government Statistician, says the dry weather throughout the greater part of the spring has had a disastrous effect on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Uranquinty. New Wheat
The new season's wheat is coming into the railway yards. It is of good sample and weight. Hay-carting is drawing to a close…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Notes. Wheat for Norway
Negotiations are proceeding from Melbourne with Norway, for the sale of 50,000 tons of wheat at 5s 8d per busnel, f.o.b…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Karakul Sheep. Why Not for Australia?
Any drought-resisting animal which promises to be a profitable investment is naturally a subject of interest to the Australian farmer. It may not be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →N.s.w. Wheat Harvest
A preliminary forecast of the New South Wales wheat crop for 1918-19 has been made by the Government Statistician (Mr. J. B. Trivett), in which he puts the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Plant Improvement. Experiments in N.S.W. New Varieties of Wheat
A season like the present tests the drought resisting capacity for all our crops, and directs the attention of growers to the subject of varieties likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Practical Problems of the Wheat-grower: a Bigger Yield Per Acre Essential
Everyone who studies the position with regard to the world's wheat supply must come to the conclusions that, so far from there being any danger of over-production, there is great risk of the supply for some years being short of requirements, and that, in order to keep pace with the steadily-increasing demand, it will be necessary not only to utilise every acre that can be profitably put under crop, but to adopt and practise every method that will increase the yield per acre. IT has been suggested again and again that some…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farmer's Sale To-morrow
Messrs. Farmer and Co. desire it to be understood that despite their recent salvage sale, the 10 per cent, for cash annual bonus summer sale, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bran Shortage. Dairymen Unsupplied
Farmers here (writes an Albion Park correspondent) take exception to the views of Mr. Drummond (manager of the State Wheat Office) on the bran supply question as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairyman's Heavy Loss
A dairy herd of twelve caws, the property of Mr. C. A. Holswach, a returned soldier, of Faulconbridge, on the Blue Mountains, has been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Morpeth. Farmers' Defence Association
At the annual meeting of the Hunter River Farmers' Defence Association, held at Morpeth, the president, Mr. C. R. Garnham, denounced the apathy of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Butter
During the early part of the week, there was an extra holiday demand. Arrivals from the coastal districts show an improvement, and under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drought Wheat Yields
The effect of the drought on wheat-growing in the north-west is shown in the results of the season's farmers' experiment wheat plots, conducted by the Department of Agriculture on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seed Wheat. for Needy Farmers. How to Apply
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stabilising Wheat-growing
Mr. W. Flanagan, Hayfield, Delungra, offers a suggestion for arresting the decline in wheat growing:-- "I have road the correspondence In your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ticks on Sheep. Dipping Experiments
The spread of skin vermin in sheep in New South Wales since the last drought has brought the question of compulsory dipping of sheep within the range of practical politics,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →J. W. Wells to Load Wool
Messrs. Horwood and Co. of this city have been advised that the American schooner J. W. Wells, which left Puget Sound on November 18 with a cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Wool Trade. Auctions Demanded by Trade. (From Our Special Correspondent. Bradford, Nov. 7, 1918
Definite and very practical steps have been taken for the formation of a wool council; this to comprise 41 members—23 employers and 18 employees—representing all sections of the…
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