Wool Payments
Messrs. Abel Wilkins and Co., agents for Dalgety and Co., to-day received a telegram from the firm stating that the Acting Prime Minister had announced…
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Farming & the land, 1918
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Selling the Wheat
Mr. Hughes denies the statement made at the Farmers' Conference in Sydney to the effect that he had sold the Australian wheat, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Financial Assistance for Fallowing Particulars of the Offer
It has been decided to render financial assistance to necessitous farmers to enable them to fallow land for wheat growing. The assistance…
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The wheat crop in Queensland, especially on the Darling Downs, is likely to be an entire failure this year. The weather has been very dry--so much…
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At last meeting of the Dubbo P.P. Board reference was made to the proposal of the Government to purchase from Mr. McGarvie Smith the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Pool Finance
The "Sun" says the statement the representative of the growers on the Wheat Board shows that there is yet extremely bad organisation and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral and Commercial. the Weather. Western Herald Office. Friday evening
Snow clouds are floating about, but there is no sign of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. [?]Ure-bred Sire [?]is Real Worth
[?] a pure-bred bull as a [?]ingly shown in a report, [?] of the results of some [?]ducted by the Iowa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Silos
The wheat silo at the Dubbo railway station is now shooting up rapidly. One at Narromine and another at Peak Hill are completed, and as the silos are 70ft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Bag Dockages
Mr. D. B. Thomson, hon. secretary of the Dubbo F.S.A., has been informed that an officer of the Wheat Board will visit Dubbo to hear complaints of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction and Control. Erection and Maintenance of Fences
In erecting a rabbit-proof fence, a line should be cleared for a distance of a chain or so of all timber lying about, andof all standing trees that might fall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are lased mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 376…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ballimore Crops
Mr. J. Raines, of Ballimore, was, like Nliobe, all smiles, when we met him in Dubbo on Saturday. For the past couple of weeks one felt, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Chapped Hands. Suggestions for Milkers and Others
Chapped and inflamed hands, especially when the conditions occurs in cold wintry weather, are probably caused by the fact that the hands are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Winter Ploughing. Turning in Cover Crops
The winter ploughing should be commenced this month, and pressed on with so that it may be completed by the early part of August. Farmyard…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eradication of Stinkwort. a Farmer's Hints
Stinkwort is getting such a hold in New South Wales, and is so much better known and understood in South Australia and West Australia, that some…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Share Farming
According to return received by the Minister for Lands the gross profit made by the Government in its share farming operations in wheat at Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral and Commercial. the Weather. Western Herald Office. Friday evening
It has been trying to rain for somedays, but the resale is a failure. Nine points were recorded this morning, after conditions that promised 3 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insuring a Crop
At the Molong Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. Malone, P.M., a case was heard involving, unusual features. Mr. A. T. Sheweroft, of Orange,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foraging Cattle
Much annoyance was caused the teachers at the District School yesterday by straying foraging and obstinate cows. There are vegetable plots…
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