British Taxes Farmers to Pay Extra Spirits and Beer More LONDON, Monday night
In his Budget statement in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Bonar Law said that farmers would be required to pay upon twice their rental…
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Farming & the land, 1918
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 25
Australia's Wheat
The correspondent of the United Press at Washington states that Mr. Hoover, the Food Controller, is endeavouring to make arrangements whereby a million and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Scarcity Merchants Alarmed Factory Output Reduced SYDNEY
A large reduction of the output of butter from coastal factories has caused consternation among Sussex-street merchants. When the season was at its best during…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Wheat
The Washington correspondent of the United Press reports that Japanese ships, bought or chartered by the United States, will probably be used to carry Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storage of Wool. Claims of Newcastle
The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce is continuing to urge the claims of the port in regard to the storage and shipping of wool. Mr. J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Shortage Cheese Supplies Dwindling
The supplies of butter are still dropping rapidly, and will probably continue to do be to a greater degree each week. It is expected that the production of fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Pool Full Payment Question MELBOURNE
Mr. Watt, Acting-Prime Minister, announced this afternoon, in the House of Representatives, that it is not possible to grant farmers full payment for all wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Must Carry Wheat Shipping Controller's Order MELBOURNE
Rear-Admiral Clarkson, Controller of Shipping, said to-day that instructions had been received that permits are to be granted only to those vessels carrying wheat. All…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Sailing Fleet in Sydney Harbor Held Up for Two Months Wheat or Copra Cargoes? Sydney
A fleet of eight American-owned sailing vessels is held up in Sydney harbor, owing to a hitch in the arrangements for outward loading…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ford's New Farm Tractor
At Adamstown last night, Mr. A. G. Huie said: "Henry Ford is a remarkable American. Twenty-four years age he built his first motor car. He drove about the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silage for Dairy Cattle
Maize silage occupies a high place in the feeding of dairy cattle in Ontario, remarks the "Live Stock Journal," and without such silage dairying, as generally conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Winter Butter Supplies from Queensland
It was announced by the Federal Butter Committee to-day at an interview with Mr. Percy Whitton, Federal Prices Commissioner, that if the supplies of butter to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Cargo Damaged Spies at Port Hole
A story of an attempt by a German spy to sink a British food ship was told during a commercial law suit before Mr. Justice M'Cardie in the King's Bench, London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Produce. Silver Beet
Silver beet is Brown with great success in New Zealand, where it is said to far surpass raps for sheep and dairy cattle. It yields a granter bull of green, succulent,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
In dairy produce generally there has been an active market. Supplies of butter show a shrinkage. Up to the present about 30,000 boxes have been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Wheat
The announcement that America will probably take largo quantities of Australian wheat under agreement with the British Government is evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Controversy Appraisement Centre Position Explained
The contest between the Chamber of Commerce and the Central Wool Committee over the objections of the latter body to establish at Newcastle an appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Supplies 25 Per Cent. Decrease The Winter Outlook SYDNEY
Supplies of butter from coastal trading centres to-day were over 25 per cent less than they were last week, and since the beginning of the year have fallen away to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Ruined Farm
A soldier in the trenches gets to know very little of the ground immediately behind his trenches. During the daytime he may not look…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bamboo Paper Special Crops Grown
Foreseeing a paper famine throughout the world within the next few years, the publishing house of Thomas Nelson and Son of Edinburgh, Scotland, have planted about…
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