Grazing or Wheat Farming. Which Pays the Better ?
MR. ROBERT GIBSON, Harden, writes :—"That the wheat industry is in a critical state is a fact. The position is that for some time…
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Wheat Board's Dest[?] Substantial Reduction
According to the official report [?] sued on Saturday, the indebte[?] of the Australian Wheat Board to [?] banks and the Imperial Govern[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Stacks. Another Fire at Lockhart Four Thousand Bags Damaged Police Investigating Origin. Lockhart, Sunday Night
A fire which broke out in two of James Bell and Co.'s wheat stacks at 9 o'clock to-night, destroyed or damaged about 4000 bags of wheat, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Service. Position of Farm Hands. London
In the course of his speech at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Workingmen's Association, Lord Derby (Secretary of State for War) explained that,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Cheating. Farmer's Matrimonial Experiences. Sydney
Three persons, May Hooke, Frank Williamson and his wife, Gladys Williamson, who were arrested in Melbourne and charged with conspiring to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and Wool in U.s.a
Th United States Department of Agriculture report for the year ended June. 1916, mentions sheep and wool: Normally the United Spates imports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Dipping
The Wagga P.P. Board declined to-co-operate with the Deniliquin Board in seeking an alteration of the regulation in order that the dipping of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat at Parkes
The most successful wheat on the Government experimental plots on MR. A. Milgare's farin at Parkes was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Typhoid From Rotten Wheat
A serious epidemic of typhoid fever that has broken out at Goerambat,Victoria, is attributed to return wheat, which was used as fowl's food, every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Wheat Stack Fires Considerable Damage
The third outbreak of fire among the wheat stacked in the Lockhart Railway yards occurred on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News. State Wheat Board
Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C., president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, was on Monday appointed by Cabinet as the representative of the farming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Field Wheat Competitions a Remarkable Achievement
Mr E. Field, of Marrar, the judge appointed by the Royal Agricultural Society in connection with their Field Wheat Competition, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Industries. Notes and News. the Wheat Position
The following resolutions were carried at a meeting of the Murrumburrah branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association held at Harden on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"What Is a Bushel of Wheat?" (To the Editor "Daily Advertiser.")
Sir,—I note that the authoriites have decided upon a fixed weight of 67 lbs. for the f.a.q. standard bushel of wheat. I wonder how many growers of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Resumption of Estates. Farms for Returned Soldiers. Sydney
Altogether 216 estates have been resumed under the Closer Settlement, Acts up to the end of last year, at a total cost of £6,000,000. The area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspicious Fires in Wheat Crops
A suspicious fire occurred in the crop of a share-fanner at Bland, in the West Wyalong district, and while neighbors were helping to extinguish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World's Sheep
Winchombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—"In view of the present need for wool and mutton throughout the world, it is interesting to note the number of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Elevators
The Minister for Agriculture says that a Canadian firm will plan and supervise the erection or wheat elevators in N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marquis Wheat
Reports on the growth and results of Marquis wheat have been received by Sir Joseph Carruthers who advises: Mr. W. H. Butt, of Dimboola…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The German "Rook." When Wheat Is Not Wheat
For ways that are bland Bret Harte's heathen Chinee is not in the mining with the gentle Hun. Listen to this, from the "Corowa Free Press"…
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