Mixed Crop for Silage
A correspondent, writing to the "Farmers' Advocate' from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, gives some useful information on growing a mixed crop for…
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Farming & the land, 1916
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Farm and Produce Seed Maize
The work of preparing land for the maize crop will now be well under way. The quality of the seed has an Important influence on the yield of both grain and…
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Business during the week has been of the usual volume in dairy produce. Reports from the Upper Hunter are unfavourable, owing to the continued dry weather; and unles…
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Business generally has been on the quiet side during the past week. There has been a fair amount of speculation in a good many lines of produce, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Wool Market. London
At London wool sales 87,000 bales were sold for home use, 6000 for export, and 10,000 were held, of which half were New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian Bravery. Capture of Mouquet Farm. London
The Canadians had a brilliant share in the battle of the 15th. They forced back the Germans over a mile and captured Mouquet Farm, after a desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Wool Shortage. New York
A shortage of 200,000,000lb of wool is confronting American clothiers, owing to the poor domestic crop and the difficulty of purchasing abroad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Export of Butter. Melbourne
Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, to-day, replying to a deputation representative of the butter industry of the Commonwealth, said that, provided assurances were given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Fodder Maize
Sowing maize broadcast is antiquated and uneconomic. It is wasteful of seed, fertiliser, labour, and capital, as more often than not it leads to the partial or…
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In the majority of lines of dairy produce there has been a fair amount of activity. Butter is coming forward in plentiful supply, and all demands are now being…
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Farm produce lines have been mostly dull during this week, and in no line has there been activity worthy of notice. The price of wheat remains at the sa[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairymen's Troubles. London
Owing to the milk dealers refusing to give farmers no extra 3d per gallon some farmers in Cheshire threaten to sell their stock. The Milk Producers' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Export Question. Melbourne
Mr. Hagelthorne, the State Minister for Agriculture, to-day, replying to a deputation of wheatgrowers, who waited on himself and Senator Russell, Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain's Wheat Supply. London
Wheat is firm Cargoes are from 6d to is dearer. Australian parcels, on passage to London, have been sold at 69s 1½d. The difficulty of securing tonnage…
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In reference to resolutions passed by the Australian Rural Interests Conference regarding the dealing with the next wheat crop, opinion here generally favours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Question. London
At the meeting of the wool exports' sub-committee of the War Trade Department, it was pointed out that unless steps were taken this season there was a grave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wheat Market. London
Wheat is being sparingly offered at full prices. A parcel of a thousand quarters of Australian grain has been sold at 70s a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. How Insecticides Kill
Insecticides kill in various ways, and it is supposed that those to which the above term has been given do so by causing suffocation. Little is known, however,…
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Business in forage lines has been exceptionally quiet during the week, and prices are decidedly weaker. The principal factor in this has been the heavy rain that has fallen…
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In all lines of dairy produce a large volume of business has been passing, and firm buying has taken place. The market for butter is firm in tone…
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