Wool and Wheat Shipment at Newcastle Wasteful Haulage
A few months age the president of the Chamber of Commerce in a statement addressed to the Minister for Railways and the Railway commissioners draws…
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Farming & the land, 1922
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Wool Sales Close
The wool sales have closed. The number of bales offered was 192,723, and practically all were sold. The most distinctive feature has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adelaide Wool Sales. Adelaide
There was a large attendance of buyers at the Adelaide wool sales this morning. The competition for marines was particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Export of Oranges
Growers of citrus fruit, of whom there are many between Newcastle and the Hawkesbury, are vitally interested in the meeting in Melbourne this week of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Commercial. the Wek's Review. Farm Produce
Despite the fact that there has been a decline in the price of maize during the week, all grain shows a tendency to harden. At the beginning of the week maize…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farms for Miners Incapacitated Men Land Being Made Available
The Government have had Tinder consideration the advisability of making available land for the settlement of incapacitated miners from Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Losses
Local crops of melons and pumpkins have been affecrted with a discase which is causing great losses to the farmers. The crown of the vine is first affected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Reduction Butter Prices Production on Increase SYDNEY
The wholesale price of choicest butter wan unchanged, this morning at 140s. a cwt., at which it has stood for over two months. According to advice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Markets. January Flotations. the Wool Trade. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
The past week has seen the first reactionary movement of the Stock Exchange this year, due largely to the disquieting news from India and Egypt,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
At the Sydney wool salons to-day 6800 bales wore offered at auction and 6191 sold. Private sales totalled 1837 bales. The market was very firm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sporting Offer Repairs to Road Farmers Supply Carts
If the shire engineer is prepared to place £100 worth of metal on the Edithville-road, Miller's Forest, the residents of that locality have assured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Cargoes
Wheat cargoes are firm on better American and Argentine advices. Demand has improved. Quotations are for January and February 53s, parcels afloat 52s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Export of Butter. Conference in Newcastle
Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, principal dairy expert of the Commonwealth, accompanied by Inspector F. Wigan, chief grader, visited Newcastle yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
At the wool sales to-day, 5909 bales were offered, and 5413 were sold. Private sales numbered 1372 bales. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →World's Wheat Crops
The Bathgate Company states that the world's wheat crops promise a surplus so abumiant that before the war it would have been thought overwhelming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Pastry Butter" Only Good For Cookery
"Pastry butter" is no good to eat. Graocers, as a rule, and ordinary housewives do not known that. They think the best butter should be used…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
At the wool sales to-day 6445 bales were offered at auction, and 6215 were sold, Private sales accounted for a further total of 812 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Industry Act. New Regulations
New regulations under the Dairy Industry Act of 1915 have been gazetted. The definition of "pasteurised butter" is "butter made from cream which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →May Wool Sales
The list has closed for the May wool sales. The quantity of free wool to be offered will be: Australian, 55,000 bales; New Zealand, 14,000; British-Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney
At the Sydney wool sales to-day 7109 bales were offered, and 6429 were sold. Private transactions accounted for an additional total of 1751 bales…
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