A Wheat Hospital
The loss to American and Canadian farmers every year through, wet, dirty, and diseased wheat is very large. To reduce this loss to a minimum, a wheat hospital…
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Wheat-growing in Sand
A private experiment in wheat-growing on a sand plain at Meckering (W.A.) has proved so satisfactory that the West Australian Minister of Lands has decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Phosphate for Dairy Pasture
A scientific officer of the Victorian Agricultural Department made a few conversational remarks a day or two ago to the Melbourne Representative of the "Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What the Weather Means to the Farmer
"Farmers," says a Victorian (Government expert, "are more in touch with nature than any other class of men. Their lives are spent in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer Murders Farmer
A German fanner named Schaeffer was murdered near Capetown by a fanner named Basson. who buried the body in a fowlhouse. While the police were disinterring the remains of Schaeffer,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →First-class Dairying Lands To be Thrown Open in the Tweed District
The first big experiment in land settlement under the 1905 Land Act will be made shortly in the Tweed country. A number of forest reserves and other…
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The Victorian Department of Agriculture is establishing farming schools in all rural districts where a class of 50 students above 16 years of age is guaranteed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Turf Notes. at Warwick Farm
About an average muster of people seen at Warwick Farm yesterday, despite the oppressive weather. It was a steaming afternoon, but before the last race a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rand Chinese. Farmhouses Attacked. LONDON, Friday, 3 p.m
"A number of Chinese attacked five farmhouses in the Transvaal Thursday last. The inmates, however, successfully repelled the attacks…
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The sensational cattle-stealing case at Winton, in which four young men named Walter [?]arr, Ernest Hew[?]t, Wi[?]m Lilley, and Charles Williams were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Sales
At the fourth wool sale of the season at Wellington, between 4000 and 5000 bales were offered. There was a good attendance. Bidding was brisk and prices were [?]d to [?]d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat Standard
COOLAMON.—Dissatisfaction is expressed at the lateness in the season when the standard of wheat was fixed, also at it being fixed so high as 62lb to the bushel. The millers…
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LONDON, Sunday.--Thirteen thousand quarters of South Australian wheat, February and March shipments, have been sold at £1 10s 7½d per quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Outlook for Wool
The prospect before merino wool is bright, viewed through the spectacles of Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartz, and Co., the well-known London brokers. In their annual report this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Butter. Alleged Wrongful Description
LONDON, Saturday.--The Agents-General are prosecuting Coopman and Young, Smithfield merchants, charged with wrongfully describing butter, with respect to a box of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Metal Output
The current wool year has now drawn to a close in so far as large operations are concerned. From now until the termination of the strict statistical year only…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soil . Settlement and Production. the Eastern Markets. for Stock and Produce. Horses and Dairy Cattle
NOWRA, Sunday.--Just back from a tour of the East, whither he went in connection with some heavy deliveries of horses, Mr. John Morton discusses Interestingly and informatively…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat-carrying Dispute. More Trouble at Darling Island
There was a recurrence of the wheat-carrying difficulty at Darling Island on Saturday. The steamer Orestes, which was to have taken a parcel of 500 tons of wheat, was towed over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Faked Butter. Alleged Use of a Government Box. London, Feb. 17
The Agents-General are prosecuting Messrs. Coopman and Young, butter merchants, charging them with having put butter into a box containing the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrific Storm at Armidale. Great Damage to Property. Crops Levelled Ground
ARMIDALE, Monday.—A terrific thunder-storm occurred last night, doing considerable, damage to property. The lightning was very severe. A number of trees in the town were…
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