Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These notes are issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly oh the experience of the Department…
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Farming & the land, 1927
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Pastoral. Marketing of Fat Lambs. Loss of Weight While in Trucks
One of the factors most necessary to successful fat lamb raising is close proximity to the rail and to market, so that the lambs may reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural Seed Wheat. Maintaining the Standard of Purity
Largely as a result of the numerous crop competitions, more attention is now being paid to the quality of seed wheat. It is advisable to only sow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Home Lodge Miller's Forest
Quite recently the Farmer's Home Lodge, Miller's Forest, held a reunion amongst its brethren in tup Hall, Miller's Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Our Wool. Reply to Critics
Mr Boilings, Bradford wool correspondent of many papers throughout the Empire, remarked in a Bradford address, that the Australian wool clip had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Pastoral Award
Apparently there is still some misapprehension over the position of graziers and the A.W.U. under the Federal Pastoral Award, which expired…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter and Milk
The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured 105 tons of butter and consigned. 159,674 gallons of milk to Sydney during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Factory Returns
The butter manufactured for December by the Dungog Co-oporative Butter Factory was 28 ton 12ewt. 35 lbs, and the milk supplied 75,198…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Guernsey Cattle Fair
The Council of the Guernsey Cattle, Society of Australasia has decided to hold its second annual fair and sale during the currency of the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Markets. Prescott's Ltd. Report
Preston's, Ltd., report on the butter markets as follow: Sydney.—The reduction on January 17 of 11 per 1d stimulated the local…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Butter Record. Guernsey Cow's Yield
A butter production record for the Guernsey breed in Australasia has been established, in a nine months' test completed on January 18 last,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Record Guernsey Cow's, Yield
A butter production record for the Guernsey breed in Australasia has been established, in a nine months' test completed on January 18 last, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Tariff. a New Zealand View
The New Zealand "Dairy Produce Exporter," referring to the Australian demand for protection against New Zealand butter, says…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Freer Sales. Sydney Wheat Market
Mainly owing to the advance in freight rates, buyers' limits were Slightly easier yesterday, at 4/6 to 4/6½ for bagged wheat in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 28
At the woolsales there was a good selection of greasy crossbreds and a limited supply of merinos. Competition was most keen in all quarters,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 19
The wool sales were very firm, and full rates were maintained. There was a splendid selection of greasy crossbreds, also a good lot of greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Low Prices. Wheat Held Up. Young
Because of the low prices ruling, 4/8 at the country station and 4/6 at the silos, growers are holding back their wheat, in the hope that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Year. Queensland Stock Losses. Millions of Sheep. Sydney
A well-known Queensland pastoralist, Mr. Rupert De Burgh Ker, who is in Sydney, said that 1926 was a disastrous year, equal to the worst in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. Trices Firm. London, Jan. 24
To-day's selection comprised chiefly merinos suitable for Continental demand, a large proportion being speculators' wools. Of other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales
Business conditions continued dull at the Alexandria forage marked, Buyers evinced little interest in the auction sales, consequently the bulk…
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