Boys' Farm Crops. Competition for Schools
The Education Department is co-operating with the Department of Agriculture in promoting competition amongst schools and pupils in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1917
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Pickling Seed Wheat. the Best Way to Prevent Bunt
Of the various preventives for bunt or "stinking smut," the most efficient is certainly sulphate of copper, or bluestone, but success depends largely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Help From Britain. Australia Gets £150,000,000. the Wheat Pool Shilling
During the course of a reply to a deputation of farmers which waited upon him in the Prime Minister's room at the Commonwealth Bank on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Clip. Sale to Great Britain. Record Prices Obtained. Whole Community Benefits
The following statement regarding the handling of the wool clip by the Commonwealth Government is issued by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes):…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Income Tax on Farmers
In his capacity as president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A. A. C. Cocks, M.L.A., has addressed the following letter to the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Harvesting Problem. Down and Tangled Crops
Wheat-growers in many districts have had greater difficulty in taking off this harvest than ever before. The harvest 1903-4 is remembered in many districts as a time when crops were badly "down," but this condition obtained over a much larger area in 1916-17. Crops which were 5ft…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Federal Elections. Lockhart Farmers and Settlers' Association
At a meeting of the Lockhart branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association held on Saturday a strong committee was formed to work for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World's Wheat Crop
It is no news to learn now that the wheat crop of 1916 was a short one—the smallest, in fact, since 1908, sad 22.5 per cent. below the high record of 1915…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Pool
A Manildra report states that a great deal of dissatisfaction exists amongst the formers of that district over the wheat pool, which is causing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Wheat Speculation. Chicago
The leading wheat speculators are patriotically promising not to specu[?]te in wheat during war time for the purpose that natural prices may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lockhart F. & S. A. Farmers Topics
The meeting of the Leckhart F.& S. A. branch was held on Saturday. In the absence of the President (Cr W. Weedon), Mr T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Urangeline. Farmers and Settlers Association
A meeting of the above was held Mr Bright's residence on Saturday. April 7th Mr. G. Jones President, being in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Board
An Adelaide message states that Mr. Clement Giles was nominated on Tuesday as the Commonwealth representative of the farmers on the Wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Matters Next Year's Crop Sydney, This Day
Heavy financial difficulty, rather than lack of patriotism was declared by the City Wheat Agents Association to be responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increasing Wheat Yield
A conference of agricultural experts [?] being held at St. Louis, under the direction of the Secretary of Agricultur, to device means for increasing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increasing American Wheat Yield New York
A conference of agricultural experts was held at St. Louis, under the direction of the Secretary for Agriculture to devise means for increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Elevators Tender to Stand Over. Premier Baulked by Ministers. Sydney
There was strong diversion of opinion and much determined opposition at the Cabinet meeting to-day on the question of wheat elevators. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm. Deep Cultivation in Lucerne Growing Reasons Supporting the Practice
one of the principal attributes to success in lucerne-growing is the proper preparation of the land before made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and Settlers' Association. Derrain Branch
The annual meeting of the above branch took place at the residence of Mr. E. H. Brill on Saturday evening, April 7. Present: Mr. J. D. M'Grath…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Cattle
The Guernsey field was comparacively small, several well-known breeders not exhibiting this your. Competition was keen in every class. A…
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