Wheat Samples
Last week, in the district Member's column, we published a communication from the Department of Agriculture with regard to a matter mentioned by Mr. R. H. Gavin,…
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Farming & the land, 1909
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Commercial News Wool Market
Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report (under date Dec. 29): Notwithstanding the fact that up to the close of the 1908 auctions no less than 424,000 bales had been sold, the…
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Sir,-- Opponents of land value taxation constantly seek to make out that taxation of land values only would be specially hard on farmers. As a matter of fact it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers and Tee Single Tax. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")
Sir,—Opponents of land value taxation constantly seek to make out that taxation of land values only would be specially hard on farmers. As a…
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At the Sydney wool sales to-day, most of the medium wools offered sold at an advance of 5 per cent, while the finer sorts sold were at late rates…
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Yesterday the police received a report to the effect that a woolshed with contents, had been destroyed by fire at the homestead of Mr. John McKinnon…
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The Sydney wool soles started on Monday at a general advance on last year's rates amounting to fully 5 per cent., consequently there was a first-rate clearance…
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Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited, submitted on Monday a catalogue of 3531 bales mostly in the grease; the selection including a fair proportion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Experimental Farm Manager. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")
Sir,—I am not a resident of your lovely town, I hall from a district, distant 500 miles from Bathurst, and I am spending a few days in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone at Caloola Woolshed Unroofed Fruit Crops Distroyed Caloola
A cyclone, pAssed over Caloola on Sunday, It lifted 65 sheets of corrugated iron from MessrS. Larnach Bros' woolshed and caumpled…
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Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report under date of January 5,1909: After a shorter suspension of public business in wool than usual…
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At the Sydney wool sales on Wednesday the clearances were not quite so good, and, while competition was fairly animated, there were some instances of neglect…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Coy report (under dale Jan. 5th): Our wool sales yesterday found market very strong—prices, on Average, flve per cent higher in most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thrips in Wheat
The Government Entomologist (Mr. W. W. Froggatt) has recently been in the neighborhood of Dubbo, investigation what [?]rns out to be a case of [?]hrips in wheat…
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Taylor Bros, of Goonoo, recently had cattle die through eating Johnston grass. The Chief Sectary of Stock, who his seen a sample of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the Farmer Fruitful Soil—bee Paralysis Lucerne and Lime—insect Pests
Mr, William Jamieson, a South Candaga[?] farmer, secured 33 bush. Is of wheat pet acra from 45 acres, out of an 85-acre paddock. A portion was cut for bay. yieldius 2[?] tons…
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Dairying Is one of the most effective branches of agriculture for restoring the fertility at the boII. Instances are recorded that prove that [?]…
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The following district clips have been sold by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited:âA. Hooke, Cassilis, 11¾d; W. G. Haynes, Gilgandra, 10½d; F. H. Brown,…
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Some further figures have been supplied us by Mr. R. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experiment Farm, which go further to prove the value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rise in Butter
On Saturday in Sydney, the wholesale price of butter rose 4/ per cwt., making superfine £5, and other grades in proportion. A rising of about ½d per lb is…
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