Price of Butter
The State Executive Council has adopted the recommendation of the Necessary Com modities Commission with regard to the price of butter. The retail price has been…
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Farming & the land, 1915
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High Priced Cattle
The highest price for many years was obtained for bullocks at the Homebush sales on Thursday. A draft of 21 head from Gulargambone Station made to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gloucester Cattle Sale
Messrs Abbott and Co. will offer at Gloncester yards on Wednesday next, 400 head of well-bred store bullocks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cattle-driving Nuisance
Attention is again called to the nuisance caused by cattle being driven along the main streets of the town. It often happens that the beasts stray on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Export of Butter. Minister's Proposals
The trouble in the butter trade over the export of butter to other States where the price is higher than that fixed by the Government upon the recommendation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Export of Butter. Studying Local Requirements
As a result of his conferences with those interested in the butter trade, Mr. Hall, the Attorney-General, stated on Saturday that each factory would be permitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Government Wheat. Work at Woodlands
Twenty-seven thousand acres of timbered country cleared ready for the plough by 400 men in three months. This is the record of operations…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Seed Wheat. Delay in Distribution
The Minister of Lands (Mr. Ashford) stated on Friday that 5321 applications had been received from necessitous farmers for 578,460 bushels of seed wheat and 16,397 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Live Stock. Hand-feeding Sheep. Some Suggested Rations
What will make the best and most economical ration for keeping sheep alive just now? One way and another that question is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for Tke Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. WV G. Ashford, M L.A., Minister of Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department No. 206. Dairying. the Butter Industry. Its Present Position
Notwithstanding that the war has so distinctly enhanced prices as to allay in part the anxiety of a year ago about the fate of second quality butter, the Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AGRICULTURAL. Liming Wheat Land. Last Season's Experiments
A year age some prominence was given in those "Notes" to the conclusions derived from an experiment in the liming of wheat laud, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indian Wheat. Surplus for Export. Simla, April 14
The wheat situation in India may be described as follows:—The special Government forecast says the total harvest expected in April and May equals 10,250,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Citrus Culture." Farmers' Bulletin, No. 90
This bulletin, forming us it does part of the matter that is intended for the "Fruitgrowers' Guide," is issued by the Department of Agriculture in order…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bolwarra Farmers
A meeting of the Bolwarra branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales will be held at the Public School, Bolwarra, on Monday night next for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Citrus Culture." Farmers' Bulletin, No., 90
This bulletin, forming' as it does part of the matter that is intended for the "Fruit-growers' Guide." is issued by the Department of Agriculture in order that growers…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Pigs and Pork. Pig-raising and Dairying
"Bacon has taken an important place in the industries of this State and as most of the pigs required to make this bacon are raised in conjunction with dairying, it…
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