Price of Butter. Newcastle Agents' Views
The proposal by the Butter Advisory Committee of Victoria, that an increase should be permuted throughout Australia in the selling price of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1917
615 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 31
The Price of Butter. Melbourne
Representatives of the butter industry to-day interviewed Senator Russell, the Minister in charge of food stuffs and commodities, nod urged that the price in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Sales. Melbourne
Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, announced to-day that the first appraisements in Sydney and Melbourne of Australian wool have been made, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vandalism at Maitland. Melon Crop Destroyed
Every summer, when the melon Benson is at its height, young men in the Maitland district make a practice of raiding melon patches, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Industry
When it was decided that the Commonwealth Government should take control of the whole of the Australian wool clip on behalf of the Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Lumpers' Dispute. "Anything May Happen."
WAGGA, Wednesday.—There is serious trouble among the wheat lumpers, which is likely to extend throughout the State. Owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Brand Misused. Kukri Dairyman Fined
At the Kurri Kurri Petty Sessions, yesterday, before Mr. Gale, P.M., H. Fenwick was charged by the Registrar of Brands with using an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Blow-Flies. Arsenic Poisoning
The attention of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Crahame) has been directed to the fact that quite a number of letters have appeared in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wheat Market. London
The wheat market is dull. Australian parcels for January delivery are quoted at 81s 6d per quarter of eight bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Cross Activities. Spinning Wool
Knitted and woollen goods are always in short supply for the needs of the Red Cross Society. To enable branches to augment their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Crops. London
The Board of Agriculture reports an increase of 20,984 acres cultivated in England and Wales in 1916, as compared with 1915…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Pastoral Company. London
The Australian Pastoral Company has declared a dividend of 6 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home-grown Wheat
No Government measures for the encouragement of the home agriculturist to grow more corn have yet been announced. There have been appeals at inter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women Farm Workers
LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. R. E. Prothero (President of the Board of Agriculture), addressing a meeting of farmers at Newport, said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Address to Farmers. London
Mr. Prothero, the President of the Board of Agriculture, addressing the farmers at Newport, said certain men would be handed over to a battalion under military…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat and Meat
It is a duty to see that all the food possible is produced in the United Kingdom, but it our limited territory does not enable us to produce all that is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dairy Farm
Mr. Harry G. Wolfe will submit to auction at Heuston's Hotel Campbell's Hill West Maitland, on Monday, February 5, a dairy farm, situated at Knocklin, about four…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Modern Duck Farm. Seven Thousand Ducklings a Week
A striking example of the manner in which fowls may be raised on a large scale with success is found in a Long Island duck farm, where no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Labour Shortage
Owing to the absolutely inadequate supply of agricultural labour a great deal of land has become very foul, with the result that I am convinced that any…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Supply of Farm Workers
A strange state of affairs exists regarding the supply of agricultural labour. The shearing season was late this year, and, therefore, there has been in later weeks…
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