State Unemployment. Measures for Relief. Aid to Farmers. Sydney
The relief of necessitous farmers in time to enable them to put their area under wheat was one of the matters considered at the meeting of the State…
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Farming & the land, 1920
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Cotton Position Sehious. Crop Acreage Declines
Authorities on cotton have been giving much consideration to the present and future position of the industry, and all of them are agreed that the situation is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Wheat Commonwealth's Feelers LONDON, Monday Night
The Wheat Commission states that beyond feelers to the Colonial Office three months ago the Commonwealth ban taken no stops to obtain relief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Down Drains Dairy Farmers' Strike
Thousands of gallons or milk have been poured into ditches and down drains in South Wales, where farmers have adopted strike measures…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Greatest Wheat Scandal of All
It came as a blow to Australia when the price of the 21b loaf of bread went up to 6d. That people of a wheat-growing country should pay the same price for bread as the householder in London, who pays 1s for a 41b loaf, is sufficiently startling, and indicates bad management somewhere…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Silos Day Labor Favored SYDNEY
Today the Cabinet decided to instruct the Railway Commissioners to carry out the work of constructing the power-house for wheat silos by day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Harvest. Lowest for Many Years. Sydney
The final returns of the State wheat harvest for the season 1919-20 have been received, and the quantities produced of grain and of hay in the various divisions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Shortage South Africa Alarmed CAPETOWN, Tuesday Night
In the House of Assembly Sir Thomas Smartt raised a debate on the serious wheat shortage in the Union, accompanied by a recent jump in…
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In the South African Assembly, Sir Thomas Smartt moved the adjournment to call attention to the serious wheat shortage. Farming members accused the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New South Wales Wheat
The final figures of the New South Wales wheat harvest last season are of such a nature that they must arrest serious attention. They illustrate in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diggers' Farms Maitland District Estates
In furtherance of inquiries instituted by Mr. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., relative to making available land in the Maitland and Dungog districts for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Silo Construction
It is officially intimated that the State Government has decided to carry out the construction of the country wheat silos by day labour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Position Sydney
Referring to-day to the criticism regarding the excess shipment of wheat from Australia, Mr. Dunn, the Minister for Agriculture, said that as New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Wool Melbourne
The wool growers' ballot on the proposed scheme of control of the Australian clip has concluded. There were 18,840 votes, equivalent to 74,88 in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aid for Farmers. the Scheme Explained Sydney
Mr. Storey, the State Premier, made a statement to-night with respect to the proposed local loan of £2,000,000. He said the sum of money made available…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool Future Uncertain LONDON, Friday Night
The "yorkshire Observer," reviewing the Australian wool controversy, and vicing Bradford opinion, contends that it is impossible for any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →House of Representatives. the Wheat Pool. Melbourne
Mr. Hill (Vic.) moved the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, to discuss the position of the wheat pools. He said his party's patience, and that of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Produce. Colic in Horses
This disease is an inflammation of the bowels, due to various causes, but food and drink are generally in sonic way or other contributing elements…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
There has been brisk business in dairy produce during the week. Supplies of butter are decreasing, and the quantity coming forward not is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Record prices have been established in chaff and lucern hay during the past week. At Alexandria both oaten and wheaten chaff reached £16. There are…
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