Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land
These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…
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Farming & the land, 1922
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Wheat Prices. Bread Likely to Be Dearer
Although the Voluntary Pool quotes wheat 1d a bushel higher, making it 5/11 on rall, Sydney, flour is still £13 10s a ton delivered ;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Season and the Dairying Industry. (Contributed.)
The Hunter Valley is experiencing another dry spell, and this on top of the low prices received during the summer months for butter causes a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural. War on Weeds. Farmers Should Give Short Shrift to Plant Lofers
There is only one kind of plant that the farmer should have any use for—it is the kind that has a definite use in the farm, and from the cultivation or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Winter Is Coming. It Will Pay You to Rug Your Cows
Winter is not very far off in the coldes parts of the State and the careful farmer will already [?] giving some thought to the particular tasks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrorised Farmers. London, May 4
In the House of Comons, replying to several questioners, Mr. Hamar Greenwood regretted that a certain number of farmers in the South of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agricultural. Many Uses for Maize. a Crop Which Should be More Widely Grown
The fact that the Australian production of maize is less than 2 bushels per head of the population, as compared with America's 30 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Primary Producers' Union. Stabilising the Dairying Industry. World's Parity Fallacy to Go. A. GREAT P.P.U. Ideal Nearing Finality
Mr. J. M. Scoot, Publicity Officer, writers, 2nd inst:— A conference of inter-State dairying interests, convened by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mauled by Alligator. Farmer's Terrible Experience
A man named Summerfield, a farmer of Alligator River, who was badly mauled by a large alligator, was brought to Darwin Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Trade. Movement to Stabilise
The conference of representatives of the dairying industry of Victoria convened by the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wheat Market. Pool Advances Price
Quiet [?] were [?] the Sydney wheat market on Friday Shinning agents were offering as high as 6/10 a bushes, trucks, Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Butter Control. the Melbourne Conference. Victoria Not Unanimous
On his return from the Melbourne conference of butter reducers, which he attended with Messrs. Basche and Mackey, the president of the Primary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Meat Export. Cattle Council Accepts Mr. Hughes' Offer
Matters have been finalised by the Queensland Cattle Council, in the matter of Mr. Hughes' offer to subs[?]dise the beef industry by all partion…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Super-tax. Concession to Wheat Growers
The Premier (Sir George Fuller) stated that the conference which took place between Mr. Huxtable and himself, relative to the concessions…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Australian Wheat. Sales in London. London, May 2
South Australian wheat—6496 tons by the Beauvenue—realised 57/9 per quarter; and 6600 tons by the Manchester Spinner sold at 57/6. New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral. Gratis on Grasses. Free Pamp[?]lets That Tell How to Obtain Better Pastures
"Dairy-farmers and pastoralists generally have begun to realise that it pays to devote a god deal of attention to the improvement of thier…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Sales. Crossbreds in Demand. London, May 5
At the London wool sales, West Australian greasy merines sold at 18d to 25d; Queensland scoured to [?]; Australian and New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales. a Better Market. London, May 2
Thiru series of wool sales has commenced. Bawras offered 7500 bales, and privatey 80,000 were on offer. To-day 10,666 bales of both were sold out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Result of Last Wheat Pool. Poor Look-out for Taxpayers
As the nett results of the last compulsory wheat pool for 1920-21 fell short of the guarantee of 7/6 a bushel by be tween £SOO,OOO and £900,00 the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Cargoes. Sales at 57/6 a Quarter. London, April 30
Wheat cargoes again advanced. A sale of 5500 tons of Victorian grain by the Austra port was sold at 57/6 a quarter and 6105 tons of West…
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