The Butter Market
The reason assigned for the sudden rise in the price of butter is the Victorian drought. The early stages of the war saw the Australian butter…
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Farming & the land, 1915
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The Price of Butter
Justice Edmunds, Chairman of the Necessary Commodities Commission, says the price of 124- fixed for butter is exclusive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial. This Wool Market
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report under date April 7:—London March wool sales closed with best merinos 5 percent., medium 5 to 74 per cent and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sowing the Wheat. Seasonable Hints
Asked for a few seasonable hints on the sowing of a wheat crop, the Chief Inspector made the remark that one of the most important things to which the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weevily Seed Wheat. Can It Be Used?
We have some clean seed wheat stored in a shed that has this year become infested with weevlls. The seed wheat now has some weevil in. Can…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big State Farms
Twenty-seven thousand acres of plain and timbered country cleared, ready for the plough, by 400 men in three months. This is the record of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Dairy Bill. Sydney
Mr. Ashford denies that those in charge of butter factories are opposed to the grading provisions of the Dairy Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and Cattle Sale at Orange
Messrs. S. J. Leeds and Co., Orange, will hold an important sale of sheep and cattle on Thursday next, commencing at 11 a.m. There are 4000 store sheep and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Next Saturday's Sheep, Cattle and Horse Sales
Messrs. Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd. advertise in this issue they will offer by public auction, on Saturday next, 17th instant, at the commercial yards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Seed Wheat
In a recent issue reference was made to the fact that all farmers must send their wheat into the Government purchasing agent, and that those who held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales — Probable Postponement. No Ships Available
It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian sea-ports. This may lead to the postponement of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The King's Wheat
The shortage of grain in Sydney has caused the authorities to become interested in wheat passing between stations. During the past few weeks,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercial. Wool Sales. Probable Postponement. No Ships' Available
It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian seaports. This may lead to the postponement of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales. Likely Postponement. Lack of Freight Steamers
The dearth of freight steamers in Australia, it is thought, will lead to the postponement of the Sydney wool sales, since quite a number of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Macquarie Stud Farm
Yearlings from Mr. H. Taylor's Maclor's Macquarie Stud, Wellington, realised good prices at the Sydney stud sales on Friday last. A bay filly, by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 206…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural. Liming Wheat Land. Last Season's Experiments
A year ago some prominence was given in these "Notes" to the conclusions derived from an experiment in the liming of wheat land, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales-Probable Post-ponement No Ships Available
It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian seaports. This may lead to the postponement of wool auctions, as already a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Citrus Culture." Farmers' Bulletin, No. 90
This bulletin, forming as it does part of the matter that is intended for the "Fruitgrowers' Guide," is issued by the Department of Agriculture in order…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Important Sheep and Cattle Sale
An important sheep and cattle sale and Malone in Mudgee on the 22nd in will be conducted by Messrs. Mitchell stant. There will be 8240 sheep…
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