Queensland Pine for Butter Boxes
"Aquilus" writes:—Sussex-street has so well answered Davies and Fehon's letter on this subject that I do not intend to answer their letter soriatim. But the following facts are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1906
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Wheat Stacks Scorched. Molong
Later particulars show had not 40 men worked all Sunday outting down and earling away timber the fire would have gone through the forest reserve to the Garra farms. In…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Sales. London, Jan. 23
The wool sales were postponed to-day owing to the prevalence of fog…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Western Australia. the Wheat Yield. Perth
In December last the Government Statistician estimated that the local wheat harvest was likely to yield 2,095,120 bushels from 183,541 acres, giving an average of 11.42…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Sales. Strong Demand for Merinoes
LONDON. Wednesday, 7.20 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening competition was spirited, and the prices were the best of the series…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Market. After the Sixth Series
LONDON, December 22.--This week, apart from tho sheepskins sales to which reference is made further on, has been practically taken up by clearing purchases made at the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stole a Decanter. and a Butter Dish. Easy on the Down Gradient
Charged with the larceny of a decanter [?]rom a hotel, she came to the cells of the Central watchhouse in a condition of drink which was, to say the least of it, morbid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat-loading Dispute. Attempt at Settlement Fails. Situation Unchanged
The dispute between the unionist wheat-carriers and the Stevedores' Association is still unsettled. It was thought on Tuesday that there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yorkshire Wool Letter. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 22
The business of 1905 is practically finished, and yet interest is undiminished in the course of wool. It seems to many that the situation is bristling with difficulties, and to my…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Most Interesting Men in Sydney: A Day in the of a Wool Buyer. How Thousands Are Lost and Won
Most of our wool buyers are birds of passage, always on the wing between Australia and Europe. They cluster thickest in Sydney in the summer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the Land. Farm Ahd Station. Fruit Pests. the Absence of Legislation
The position to-day of the fruit industry is of petuliar interest. We have the old growers, who supply most of the local trade, beling passed by for the fruit of southern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Industry
BOWRAL.—In December, the Kangaloon Dairy Company manufactured 26,900lb of butter. Milk suppliers were paid 12¼d lb for butter fat, equal to nearly 4½d a gallon for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fruit Crops At MOLONG
MOLONG.—A halistorm visited Peabody and other fruit centres last week, and completed the destruction of this season's crop initiated by the late frosts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer's Sudden Death
COONAMBLE, Wednesday.--A selector, William Green, residing about 12 miles out, died suddenly this morning from heart affection. Deceased was about 45 years of age…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Sheep and Wool Industry. Suggestion for South Africa
The following letter has been received by us from the New South Wales, Under-Secretary for Finance and Trade:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Aduxlterated Butter
Messrs. Coopman and Young, butter merchants, of Smithfield, charged with wrongly describing as butter a mixture of butter and cocoanut oil, have been fined £20 on one count…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Industry. Queensland's Butter Production. Brisbane
A return, compiled by the Queensland Government Statistician, estimates that the total butter production of the State in 1905 amounted to 18,027,7951b, valued a £765,765, compared…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Show Butter
Mr. J. Blanchfield, manager of the Woodhill Dalry Company, writes:—Whilst admitting there is no better method than that adopted by the Royal Agricultural Society re the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat Dispute
"H. J. K." writes:—Re wheat loading dispute: I claim to know a little about the work involved in loading wheat in a ship's hold, having ia my earlier days been engaged in this port in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Shippers' Complaint
Wheat shippers complain bitterly of the want of system in the handling of the traffic by the Victorian Railway Department, says the Melbourne "Age." On Monday one shipper…
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