West Australian Wheat. Encouraging Yields
"We have a higher duty than the natural one of increasing our State's prosperity by setting the wheat belt—we must develop it to help feed the Empire."…
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Farming & the land, 1914
403 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 21
Insurance Against Strikes. Move by Farmers. Sydney
The Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day discussed the question of insurance against strikes. A special committee put forward a scheme for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Produce
There has been a better feeling and an improved trade during the week in farm produce. The weather in Victoria and Southern Riverina is giving great…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Manuring Onions
Suitable manuring plays an important role in the success of the onion crop. A dressing of 5cwt superphosphate and from 3cwt to 4cwt of soot to the acre…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →American Wheat. Wild Trading. Chicago
As a result of the war scare in Europe there was wild trading in wheat yesterday. The rush to buy wheat was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Professor and the Farmer
Professor James Geikie, whose retirement from the Chair of Geolog in the University of Edinburgh is announced has, like his elder brother, Sir Archibald…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wheat Market. Sydney
Cable messages from London announcing that Australian wheat cargoes had been further advanced by 3d a quarter, and that the Liverpool option market had hardened to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wheat Market. Melbourne
The price of wheat jumped to-day from 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel, and the market was demoralised owing to the war news…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Butter. Conference with Shipowners. London
The Colonial Butter Committee has invited the Agents-General of the Australian States, and Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stock Exchanges Lifeless. Wheat-pit Whirlwind. London
The London Stock Exchange was lifeless all yesterday, but fair business was done in Consols which closed at 70. Altogether there were four failures. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, July 24. Farmers and the Fleet
An important conference of delegates of the New Zealand Farmers' Union has just been held here. The union is now a well-organised and powerful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feeding Dairy Cows
In a recent bulletin of the International Institute of Agriculture an account of an interesting feeding experiment is recorded. The object of the experiment…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm and Produce. Practical Cow Values
"Nothing is clearer than that the successful breeder of the future will be a book-keeper and a statistician." This statement was made some time ago by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Produce
There has been a fair amount of business transacted in the farm produce section during the past week. On account of the European trouble, wheat has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our Sydney Letter. Black July Week.—the Effect of the War.—our Wool in Jeopardy.—treatment of Local Continentals.—australians Will Do Their Duty.—the Feeling in This City. Sydney
Closing week, July 1914, will not be forgotten in a hurry. Ordinary topics of conversation have been found dull. Not that the majority of people have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Market. Sydney
There was an absence of excitement in the wheat market, to-day. The reaction was due to the majority of buyers deciding to operate with extreme caution. There were many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat in Britain. Enough for Four Months. London
It is officially announced that there is sufficient wheat at present in the United Kingdom to supply the population for four months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall in Wheat. Sydney
The wheat boom has burs To-day holders were anxious to sell. Yesterday the nominal value of prime milling old season grain was 4s 6d, but to-day prices dropped to 4s 4d,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Export of Wheat and Flour. Prohibition Advocated. Sydney
The limited quantities of breadstuffs available in New South Wales are causing great concern to wholesale merchants in Sydney. Many of them to-day advocated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snake Fattening Farms
Some persons may not know" that there are ranches in the great south-western part of the United States whose, whole business is the fattening of rattlesnakes…
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