Fight in a Farmhouse
"We played havoc with them with their own gun," says Sergeant Matthew Pugh, of the 1st Battalion Wales Borderers, at the conclusion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1916
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Phosphorus in Wheat Crop. Foul Play Suspected
A dastardly act was perpetrated at Tocyal on Robert Miller's farm, resulting in several stacks and a portion of the wheat crop being destroyed by fire. Miller's sons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipping Wheat at Melbourne. Men Resume Loading Work. Melbourne
Work was resumed at 3 p.m. to-day in loading wheat on the steamer Caldy at Williamstown, and in unloading the grain from the railway trucks and stacking it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin (and District) History [Extracts from the “ Pastoral Times.”]
August 6,1870:— At the Deniliquin Circuit, on a charge of embezzling £50, the pro party of Mr. George Elliott, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Selling by Auction. the Act Amended. to Permit of Selling at Night
For many years (12 to 15) there has been trouble at almost every wool sale in Albury. Buyers have had to attend sales at Albury (which are fast becoming of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Haystack Building. Farmer's Experience
The subject of stack building is always of more or less interest to the farmer, this reference to a discussion at a recent meeting of the Temora branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Wheat. Farmers Sell, But Get No Money. Delay of Official Certificates Bitter Protest at Brocklesby
The delay in forwarding official certificates corresponding with the issue of interim certi[?]cates by sub-agents under the Government wheat scheme for wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Wheat Yield Causes Shortage of Cornsacks. Melbourne
Mr. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture, referring to-day to the shortage in cornsacks, attributed this to the fact that the most sanguine expectations as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Widows of Soldiers and Farms. Sydney
Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., says the widows of men who have fallen at the front axe equally entitled to apply for French's Forest farms if they can prove that with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Factory
A meeting of the directors of the Jerilderie Co-operative Butter Factory and Cool Storage Co., Ltd., will be held in the Secretary's Office on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat
A fair amount of grain is coming in to the railway station and the local mills. There are only the two receiving firms represented here, viz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Mortgages
Messrs. Williamson and Harrison, of Wagga, agents for Messrs. Louis Dreyfus and Co., of Sydney, who are acting for the Government in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Wheat Harvest
Everywhere in the Urana and Oaklands districts the same position is found. The farmers have all underestimated the crops, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sale of Wheat Farm at Gilgandra
Messrs. Kemp-Bance and Christie, of Gilgandra, will on January 19, offer for sale a choice where farm of 750 acres at Gilgandra Easy terms are offered…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Wool Sales
John Bridge and Co. report:— Holiday conditions are being observed in the Sydney wool market, and active operations will not be resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mathoura Wheat Yields
It is estimated that £40,000 worth of wheat will be despatched from Mathoura this season. As a result of the successful crops the agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Dipping Compulsory in Victoria
Owing to drought conditions provalling at time of last sliearing, and for somo months subsequently, the Sheep Dipping Act was practicaliy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident to Wheat Train
A train of 32 trucks, of wheat, which had been detached from the engine, broke away at the Clyde Station on Saturday afternoon, and crashed into the buffer stops…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Farmers Give Tithe of Wheat. to Help Wounded Soldiers. Rochester
Prior to the commencement of the harvesting operations in the Rochester district a number of farmers notil[?]ed their intention of giving a tithe of their harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agents' Commission for Wheat Buying
The Victorian Minister of Agriculture has made an additional statement in connection with the payment of agents' commission for services rendered in handling…
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