Wheat a Wonderful Crop Sixty-two Million Bushels
The Government Statistician has prepared a further estimate of the yield of this season's wheat crop. It is a magnificent record…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1916
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Pastoral. the Dorset Horn Cross. For Fat Lamb Market
A practical test with fat lambs of tho Dorset Horn cross was recently made by the Department of Agriculture, when a consignment was forwarded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Lumpers' Strike. Justice Higgins' Decision
In connection with the wheat lumpers' strlke, the men yesterday again refused the agents' offer of 2/ per hour for day word. 2/10 for night work and 3/9 for Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crossbred Wool. Government Requirements. London
Sir Thomas McKenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has enquired whether there is likely to be any diminution in the manufacture of army clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agricultural. Practical Irrigation Farming. Manuring of Orchards
In almost every branch of agriculture the application of fertilisers to the soil is essontial if the best results are to be obtained. According to the officer who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agriculture. Practical Irrigation Farming Manuring of Orchands
In almost every branch of agriculture the application of fertilisers to the soil is essential if the best results are to be obtained. According to the officer who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmer and Business Man. Varied Problems
There is no man in the country who needs to be a good business man more urgently than the farmer, says Mr. D. P. Houston. Secretary to the United States Department…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →German Farmers' Plight. Foodstuffs, Animates, and Fertilisers
There is great depression in agricultural Germany. The German farmer is under no Illusions as to the grievous food difficulties which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Agricultural. Practical Irrigation Farming
In irrigation farming, no leas than in the, production of crops under ordinary "dry" concutions cultivation is more than half the business. It is possible to apply water with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairying. Udder Diseases. Preventive and Curative Measures
"Caked and spoiled udders are the bane of the milk producers' business," says Dr. A. S. Alexander, in a current article. Generally they do not recover, no matter how…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miscellanceous. Meteorology. Forecasting for Farmers
A useful paper on the above [?] read by Mr. H. L. Lane at a recent meeting of the Ponto branch of the Agricultural Bureau, the object being to indicate to farm…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Milk Trouble. Dairymen's Threat. Difficulties of Seizures
Sydney, Fridays—If the country dairymen carry out their threat not to send milk to Sydney, the Necessary Commodities Commission has the power…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 245. the Orchard. Marketing of Fruit. An Important Problom
A subject of great importance to the fruitgrowor, viz., the preparation and marketing of fruit, was recently (Walt with in a paper read by Captain Fairley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Organise Wheat or Meat? the Taxation Theory a series of articles under the heading 'Organise" will appear in our columns. They are reprinted from the "Sun," Sydney, and have been preparod by a writer who has studied thoroughly the question of national efficiency. VII
In the rather perplexing balance of adantages and risks entailed in a rapid expansion of Australian wheat-growing, the stronger hopes for national advance lie with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increasing Wheat Yield. Railway Problem
The Premier (Mr. Holman), commented on Saturday on the contention that the high prices caused by the war had been the main cause of the great increase in the area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Lumpers. Setttlement Arrived At
After a conference between the Government shipping agents and the representative of wheat lumpers, Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister, announced that the loading of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Wheat Crop. Sixty-two Million Bushels
The Government Statistician has prepared a further estimate of the yield of this season's magnificent record. From an area of 5,166,500 acres, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Price of Butter
Mr. Tudor, Minister of Customs, is of opinion that there is no justification for the rise of one penny in the price of butter owing to any immediate shortage. At the same…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Market
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The wool sales re-opened to-day (Monday). Rates for good cross-breds and merinos ruled firm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Yield. Railway Factor
The Premier on Saturday expressed himself as immensely pleased with,the prospect of a record wheat harvest in the State, and-claimed that the…
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