Wheat Ships
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Seven more additional ships are now on their way to Australia to load wheat for the Wheat Board. They will arrive about the middle of February…
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Farming & the land, 1919
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Butter V Milk. Parlous Position in Victoria
A special correspondent of the ''Melbourne Age" writes as follows:--There is at the present time a fierce war being conducted between the Nestle's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying in Queensland
The Chief Dairy Expert of Queensland (Mr. E. Graham), in a review of the year's operations in the dairying industry in Queensland, says that several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires. Dairy Cattle Destroyed
SYDNEY, Monday.—A disastrous bus fire occurred on Kameruka Estate, near Bogs One dairy herd of 80 cows was destroyed except 18 which rushed into the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Silos
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Agriculture expects six groups of wheat silos in the country to be completed by March next. Many silos have already been finished,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spartacus Attempt to Seize Cattle Market Foiled. Amsterdam
The Spartacusers, after seizing Berlin, attempted to capture the cattle market. The Government, anticipating the move, sent along many machine guns,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tragedy in Farming
North-west writes in "S.M. Herald":— Sir Joseph Carruthers recently pointed out in the "Daily Telegraph" that, already 2000 fanners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy Herd
As regards the majority of our dairy farmers there has not yet come realisation of the financial value of careful selection, breeding, and scientific feeding. A valuable proof…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dairy Cow
"The cow," wrote a schooboy essayist, "is a four-cornered animal, with a leg at each corner." The description, says a writer in the "Age," contains probably all that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Telegrams. Necessitous Wheat Farmers
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Cabinet has appointed a sub-committee to expeditiously deal with the question of financing necessitous wheat farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Beef and Butter. Imperial Purchases. Wellington (N.z.)
The Imperial Government has agreed to purchase the output of meat, and butter until June 30th, 1920…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Electricity As an Aid to Crop Culture
According to an English paper, some 2000 acres have been sown with electrified wheat. Returns are not yet to hand; but during the growing period it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kyogle Dairy Co
The directors met on Saturday and struck the pay for the month of December on the basis of 1s 4 58d per lb for [?]hoicest, 1s 4 l8d perlb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Purchase of Farms
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Lands has decided to purchase two farms at Millthorpe for returned soldiers. One is 3083 acres in extent, the price being £ 15s per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral. Sheep-maggot Flies. Destroying the Breeding Grounds
A recent summary of the recommendations of the Department of Agriculture on the subject of control of the sheep maggot fly laid emphasis upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Pay
The Tweed Co-operative Butter Company report that their pay for the month just concluded is at the rate of 1478 per lb. first class commercial butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Co-operative Butter Company
The butter manufactured for the month by the above company was 632 tons, the pay being 14¾ for choicest. The total pay amounted to £118,000. Pigs killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervisior of the Hon. W. C. Grahame. M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department No. 399…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy and Farm. Live Stock. (Issued by the Department of Agriculture.) Lucerne or Bran., for Feeding Value
A feding trial recently conducted in Nebraska, U.S.A., has given additional evidence of the high feeding value of lucerne. The claim has often been made that this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Prices for Cane Farms. an Expert's Foeecast
Messrs. Munro and Smith, of Maclean, report having completed the sale of the wellknown cane farm at Harwood Island, the property of Mr. Alex Miller, to…
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