Agricultural. Maize Improvement. a Farmer's Experience
In a brief outline of his method of growing maize, a Wisconsin farmer relates" in "Hoard's Dairyman" how he improved his strain of maize so as…
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Farming & the land, 1918
799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 17 of 40
Butter Conference
Mr. Symonds, manager of the Grafton Dairy Co., has been advised by Mr. McIntyre, secretary of the Northern Rivers Dairy Factories Association that a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advance to Wheat Growers. Melbourne
The Australian Wheat Board agreed, to pay 4/4 per bushel for next season's crop. After freight, deduction it is expected that farmers will receive 4/0½ per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Market Reduced Supplies. Imports From Queensland. Sydney
Arrivals of butter from the coastal producing centres this morning were over 25 percent, less than last week. Since the beginning of the year supplies have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Orders for Trucks. Sydney
Recently the Primary Producers Union made representations to the Railway Commissioners in connection with the disability under which producers living some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Experiment Farm
The perusal of Mr. George Davison's effusion on the above makes me feel as I did in days gone by, when I was caned at school, for he paints the picture of a few…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Late Wires. Old Trick Succeeds. Two Farmers Robbed. Sydney
Two young farmers, who visited Adelaide last week, were the victims of a confidence trick. They lost £770 to some men, who alleged that they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increase in Price of Butter. Melbourne
Mr. Massy Green, Minister controlling foodstuffs, has decided to permit an increase of 1½d per lb. in the retail price of butter in Victoria, because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Cargo Damaged. Spies at Port-hole
A story of an attempt by a German spy to sink a British food ship was told during a commercial law suit before Mr. Justice McCardie in the King's Bench,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Parliament Queensland Sugar Crop. Income Tax Bill. Bolshevik Sentiments. Melbourne
In the Senate, Senator Gardiner denied that the alleged Labor manifesto issued to the Flinders electors emanated from the Federal Labor Party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Commandeered. Government's Firm Action. Washington, Thursday Night
The U.S. Government has commandeered all the unsold wool, also the coming year's wool clip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter for Great Britain
Mr. C. Dunlop, manager of the C.R. D.P. Company, Ulmarra, last night received a telegram from the company's Sydney agents, stating that information had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increased Price of Butter. Sydney
Mr. Tudor states that the increased price of butter is apparently due to lack of foresight on the part of those charged with the responsibility of watching the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral and Agricultural. the Cultivation of Maize. Preparation of the Soil
Maize, being comparatively shallowrooted, especially in the later stages of its growth, requires a thorough and deep working of the soil, for it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Farmers Encouraged. Sydney
Mr. Wearne, M.L.A., gives a cheering account of the effect of the guarantee of 4 per bushel at railway sidings for next season's wheat harvest is having in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World's Wheat Crop. Big Increase Over 1917. ROME
The Institute of Agriculture estimates that the total yield of wheat in Argentine, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grading of Butter. Overlapping of Control. Question to Be Adjusted. Sydney
The secretary of the Primary Producers' Union States that under the State Dairy Industry Act, producers desiring to export butter to adjoining States are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Wires Murder and Suicide. Farmer's Tragic Acts. Sydney
William Jeffrey, a farmer, of Booboorowie, South Australia, fatally shot his son, aged 26, with a military rifle and then blew portion of his own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Letter. Archbishop Kelly's Message. Sydney
A pastoral letter written by Archbishop Kelly while at Wollongong on April 30 was read yesterday in the churches of the Roman Catholic diocese of Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Conference. the Control of the Industry. Sydney
The Interstate Dairy Conference was opened in Sydney to-day. Delegates from Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales were present…
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