Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
There has been no improvement in business in farm produce since last week. Supplies are in excess of the demand In nearly every line. The Australian wheat…
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Farming & the land, 1917
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Dairy Produce
With the exception of a further advance in eggs, the market for dairy produce has presented no new features during the week…
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FORBES, Tuesday.—A fire at Bandon Station, in the Forbes district, destroyed a lot of grass and fencing, and also 1,000 sheep belonging to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying. It Tests the Dull Too. Herd-testing
Cow-testing tests the cows and the men. It tests the bull, too. That is the view put forward by an organiser of a Wisconsin (U.S.A.) cow-testing…
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No member of the Government is busier just now than Mr. Prothero, the President of the Board of Agriculture. His task is to ensure a great increase in the food…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Owing to delays in arrivals, colonial butter is in short supply. Few New Zealand parcels of choicest are available…
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As tthe result of negotiations between the Wheat Harvest Board of South Australia and the workingmen's branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, an…
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Wheat is firm at nominal prices. An Australian parcel to Liverpool sold at 82s. Chicago wheat futures are quoted:-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales. London
There was a very shabby miscellancous selection on offer at yesterday's wool sales. Merinoes were rather slow of sale, and…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The first instalment of Australian merino wools available for export to America will be offered for sale on Friday and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Market. London
The butter market is quiet and unchanged. The market is practically without colonial butter, pending the discharge of an Australian cargo just arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Conserving Soil Moisture
Cultivation is done primarily to conserve moisture and to kill weeds. The maintenance of moisture in the soil depends largely on its physical condition,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Business in farm produce continues extremly dull. Merchants of long standing in the trade say that the conditions have never been so bad as those they have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Supply. London
There is a small supply of butter, and operations are quiet. The market in practically unchanged, with little colonial offering, pending the discharge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prices of Wheat. London
Wheat is firm. The Commission has raised prices is in London, and from is to 1s 6d at Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Market. London
There was a better selection and keen competition at the London wool sales yesterday among the homo trade, American and Continental buyers. This is the first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →School Agriculture. Boys' Farm Crop Competition. Sydney
The Education Department is co-operating with the Department of Agriculture in promoting competition amongst schools and pupils in order to promote an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Markets. Butter Supply Shortening
For the first time this year there was a visible shortage of butter on the floors of the majority of the distributing houses to-day. Though the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales. London
The catalogue yesterday consisted of faulty lots nod speculators' wools. Values were generally unchanged. Occasional lots favoured buyers. Bradford…
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American agricultural authorities have on several occasions admitted the value of the boys' crop competitions in the principal corn-growing…
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