Wheat Championship
The "Canadian Grain Growers' Guide" of October 30 last reports that "Mr. Seager Wheeler, of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, the world's most famous grain-grower,…
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Farming & the land, 1919
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New Butter Factory Supplies for Newcastle
The increased demand for butter for the Newcastle district has been attracting the attention of the managers of some of the largest factories in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Produce. Seed Testing
In 1917 the British Board of Agriculture established a seed-testing station in England, and the report on the first 12 months' operations which has recently…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
There has been a well maintained demand for dairy produce. Butter is becoming scarce, and merchants are finding it difficult to execute all orders. Orders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Business in all lines of farm produce has been remarkably good despite the high prices ruling. There is a steady demand from the north and north-west for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat in Pickle Preventing Bunt
The most efficient and convenient preventive for bunt or "stinking smut" [?]der present circumstances is certainly sulphate of copper, or bluestone,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Costs 5/- a Pound to Produce
Mr. C. F. Garnsey, of Blairmore, owner of a pure-bred Jersey herd, a member of the Aberdeen branch of the Prmiary Producers Union, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Produce. Quick Growing Fodder Crops
In view of the depletion of reserves of fodder and the serious damage done to ordinary pastures—especially, to paspalum—by the phenomenally dry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
All lines of dairy produce have been in good inquiry. Butter is becoming scarcer, but merchants are still able to meet all requirements of customers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Reports from merchants show that good volume of business has been pass lag in all lines of farm produce, but there are general complaints with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seed Wheat
The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Grahame, notifies that the Department of Agriculture is receiving numerous inquiries from persons desiring…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New "Manless" Farming
A machine which automatically ploughs, sows, cultivates, and reaps, with only perfunctory attention at the hands of man, has been invented by an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wharf Strike Wheat Lumpers Idle SYDNEY
Wheat-lumpers at Darling Island, who held a stop-work meeting yesterday afternoon, because they were refused an increase in wages, did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Sales Good Cattle Supply
The market for pigs was not so well supplied as to recent occasions and the quality was certainly nothing like the standard of late offerings. The market…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Idle Wheat Ships Lumpers Cease Work SYDNEY
An a result of the wheat lumpers' strike, the whole of the wheat ships at Darling Harbor are Idle. The men slopped on Monday, but resumed work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Ships Held Up. Sydney
Yesterday wharf labourers employed on wheat ships at Pyrmont went back to work under the old conditions of employment, on condition that they would be granted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy Labour
Farm and dairy hands in large numbers are available for employment through the Newcastle Branch of the Labour Exchange. No charge is made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Dairy Hands
A large number of farm and dairy hands are available for employment through the Newcastle Labor Exchange. The fullest particulars may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Wheat 75,000 Bags Destroyed TEMORA
As the result of a fire in a wheat stack at Mirrol siding, on the T[?]mora to Bare[?]gn railway line, yesterday afternoon, 75,000 bags of 1916-17…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Bran and Pollard
Mr. Holman, the State Premier, has been in communication with Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, respecting the scarcity of bran and pollard in New South…
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