Experimental Farming. Work of the Field Branch. Valuable Results Achieved
[At last month's meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce a long debate took place regarding the Grafton Experiment Farm and finally…
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Farming & the land, 1918
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Wheat Stacking. a Dispute Settled. Adelaide
The dispute over the stacking of wheat at the Outer Harbor, Port Adelaide, has been settled. The men accepted the piecework system…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter in Store. War Precautions Regulation. Officers Empowered to Seize. Melbourne
The Federal Executive has passed War Precautions Act Regulation empowering officers to seize all butter in store…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Price of Meat. Sheep Buyers Give Evidence. "Too Much Cut-throat Business. Sydney
Andrew Amos, a sheep buyer, giving evidence before the Meat Commission, said the only thing that caused a rise in the market was when a short supply offered…
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The weather and the roads are two things that are occupying the minds of the general public at present. And no wonder after the late fall of rain. Over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Pool. Grain Received to Date. Sydney
Up to the present a total of 34 million bushels of wheat has been received into the 1917-18 wheat pool. The Minister for Agriculture states that the grand total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Agricultural. Wheat As Feed for Swine. an Experiment
A bulletin of the Kentucky agricultural experiment Elation, U.S.A., records an experiment conducted at the station to determine the value of wheat alone and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the Cattle
Practically no provision was made to the schedule for grade classes, which are catered for so liberally by the agricultural [?] the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dorrigo Dairy Company. Report for February. Butter Department
During February the supply of cream kept up well, and 54 tons 1 cwt. of butter was manufactured against 56 tons 12cwt for January. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meat Commission. "Holding Their Fingers." a K.c.'s. Evidence. What Dairy Farmers May Do. Sydney
The Meat Commission resumed to-day in Sydney. John Field, carease butcher, said there was a secret code used between buyers and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle From New Zealand
Last week there arrived from New Zealand three Freisian heifers, two Freisian bulls, and one Ayrshire bull, consigned to Messrs. Morton and Wright, of Sydney…
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Reuter's Stockholm correspondent reported on Sunday that the Finnish Food Committee has decided to ration butter with a view to exporting the surplus to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Pool. Another Payment Shortly. Sydney
It is stated there is every reason for farmers to expect another wheat payment shortly. The South Australian Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Loan. Advances to Wool Growers. Melbourne
The secretary to the Federal Treasurer, referring to the new war loan, said any wool grower could obtain from his bank an advance up to 90 per cent, of the value…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armenian Army to Fight Germans. No Wheat From South Russia. New York, Sunday Night
Unofficial advices state that 250,000 Armenian and Georgian troops will hold the frontier on the Caucasus Isthmus, from Kars to Batoum. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peace for Russia. Accepted by Soviets. Cheap Russian Labor. to Work German Farms. Vancouver
The Moscow Soviets have ratified the German peace proposals by 45 votes to 30. A message from Washington states that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural. Winter Green Fodder Crops. For Coastal Districts
In many districts on the coast where green winter fodder is grown, it is still thought that no other crop is possible but Algerian oats. But, as one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Cattle Stealing. Sydney
Robert Stanton and Harry Smith were arrested at Coonamble yesterday, and charged with stealing 24 bullocks, the property of Mrs. Taffield, of Warriana…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Experiment Farm
The motion before the Chamber of Commerce concerning the Grafton farm involves two problems, viz., (1) The advance of agriculture and its kindred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Visit to the Experiment Farm
On Thursday afternoon, 14th inst., a company of some 66 boys from the Grafton Public School, under the supervision of Messrs. W. H. Mitchell and A. F…
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