Helping the Farmers
Excellent work is being done by the Board of Agriculture on behalf of our oldest industry. In his speech in the House of Commons on the administration…
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Farming & the land, 1913
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American Tariff. Free Wool Passed. Washington
The Senate has finally adopted the [?] wool clauses of the Tariff Bill without amendment. It is now practically certain that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
The arrivals of wool at Newcastle for the current season to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Company, and Messrs. Dalgety and Company, total…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Herd Testing
Evidences of the value of herd testing are beginning to accumulate in this State, and it may be hoped that in a few years we will be able to note a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairy Produce
Bacon continues very firm prices having been advanced by a half-penny per lb during the week. Hams, in sympathy with bacon, have also hardened, and lard is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Produce
There has been a fair demand for all lines of produce, and merchants report a fairly satisfactory volume of business. Considerable inconvenience has been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Alligator Farm
The crocodile is generally regarded merely as a side show to a travelling menagerie, or an adjunct to a Zoo. The alligator has generally, been regarded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Adelaide Wool Sales. Adelaide
The wool sales were opened in Adelaide to-day. The catalogues comprised 27,000 bales, which is a record offering. There was a large attendance of buyers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dublin Riots. Attack on a Farm. London
There has been a renewal of the industrial trouble at Dublin, more especially in the vicinity of Finglas, to the north of the city, where a field of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
The arrivals of wools for the current season to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Company, and Messrs. Dalgety and Company, are 5035 bales, as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Things Thoughtful. Many go out for wool and return shorn
Procrastination is like the Ivy round the oak, and ends by limiting, if it does not destroy, the power of manly and necessary exertion.—Sir W. Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farm and Produce. Importance of Pure Seeds
A few weeks ago comment was made in this column on the necessity for legislation in New South Wales to insure the purity of seeds sold to the farmers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairy Produce
Butter was reduced during the week by 8s per cwt., owing to supplies being In excess of the demand. The reduction brings quotations about level with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Produce
There has boon a fair amount of business passing in the produce section, and the dry weather in the north has been responsible for a good dean of inquiries,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Wool Sales. London
The London wool sales opened yesterday with a fair amount of satisfactory competition. Prices were generally unchanged, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sweetening Butter. Prosecution Dismissed. London
Edward Whittaker, an exporter, of Irish butter at Liverpool, was proceeded against on a charge of selling butter containing from 10 to 12 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Butter and Its Rival
Speaking on the occasion of the annual meeting of shareholders of the Denman Co-operative Dairying Company, Mr. Mill, the manager of the factory, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wool Season
The arrivals of wool at Newcastle for the current season to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Company and Messrs. Dalgety and Company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
There has been a good inquiry for all lines of dairy produce during the week. Butter has firmed in consequence of an improved market in London, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Produce
With the general downpour of rain in the northern districts the demand for produce has fallen away materially, and caused an easier tendency in many lines…
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