Fluke in Cattle
THE attention of cattle owners is directed to a recent statement by the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the Department of Agriculture regarding…
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Wheat Crop State Estimate of 50,000,000 Bushels
The forecast at October- 9 of the current season's yield of wheat in New South Wales is 50,000,000 bushels'. This is the preliminary estimate. A…
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The average price realised for greasy wool sold in Melbourne during the week ended 17th inst was 8.68d. per lb., or £11109 per bale, on an…
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Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Albury, report having received the following wire from their Sydney office:—"Offered 6041 bales; sold 97 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Alleged Cattle Stealing at Leeton
At the Leeton Police Court this week, Charles A. Wennerbom, aged 22, was charged with stealing four horses, the property of John L. Northley, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Sheep Sale at Moulamein
McKenzie and Co. and Edward Trenchard and Co, is conjunction, report a very successful special sheep sale at Moulamein on Wednesday, 14th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Economical Wool Rugs Cookardinia
DEAR POPPY,—I recently read where one woman asked how to make wool rugs, and coming across directions far making a wool quilt…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales
The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co. Ltd. Melbourne, report :— Sales were continued in Melbourne on Monday, when this company offered a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Bonus Extension to 3/6
In the Senate on Wednesday, the Aassistant Minister (Senator Dooley) said that the Government hoped to induce the banks to increase the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Sheep Deal Line of 30,000 Ewes
What is probably a record for Australia in sheep, deals has just been completed by Mr. D. F. Blyth, of “Tho[?]ton,” Wamboota. A straight line of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of Cattle Wodonga Police Seize Truck Load
On the arrival at Wodonga of a stock train from Tallangatta on Tuesday a truck of 12 mixed cattle consigned to a firm of stock agents at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Possible Fall in Exchange Effects Upon Wool
A Sydney firm of wool brokers reports; “There has been some concern at the possibility of a sharp decline in the rate of exchange between Australia and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Requirements of Wheat The Basis of Fallowing
IN the direr wheat districts it is estimated that approximately 500lb. or wheat are required to pass through a wheat plant for the production of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Sydney Wool Market. Good Clearances. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon
The wool marked firmer at late rates for all descriptions. Competition was keen and general. Greasy merino sold to 15¾d. An average selection…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Trade Uncertainty About Future Hardening of Merino Tops London, October 17
The London representative of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council (Mr. W. P. Devercaux) reports that in view of the chaotic conditions prevailing in…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →£3,000,000 Wheat Bounty Export Basis of Payment Price Limit of 3/6 a Bushel
The Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) presided over a conference of wheatgrowers' representatives from all the mainland States in…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Brothers Poisoned on Lonely Farm
Mystery surrounds the poisoning of two brothers, John Ellis, aged 67 years, and Thomas Ellis, aged 68 years, at a lonely farm at Ninyeunook (Vic.). The…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Fruit Crop at Griffith Prospects of Satisfactory Disposal
The canning peach crop, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas is likely to be light this year. A very wet winter, late frosts, and a heavy thrips…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Useful on the Poultry Farm To Make Kerosene Emulsion
KEROSENE emulsion is useful on the poultry farm as a spraying material for the control of red mite and other parasites that live and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Painting Farm Buildings
Mixing and Application of the Colors THE pigments generally used for the preparation of the colors commonly used in the painting of buildings are…
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