The Royal Show. Wheat Entries
The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society states that entries for the wheat competitions for the next Royal Show are coming in slowly. Last year the entries numbered…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming & the land, 1912
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Hospitals at Homebush. for Heat-affected Cattle
The City Council has begun the erection of a shed at Homebush Yards for cattle affected by the heat! Last Monday's experience has stirred things, evidently. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sheep and Wool The, Sydney Traded. Strong Bidding Values Firm. Sheep Still Dear. Proposal to Resume Stock Reserves. Will the Government take over Homebush Yards? A-Rumour in the Affirmative
The first sales of the second half of the wool season took place in Sydney last Monday, and were continued up to yesterday. As prophesied, those…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The N.s.w. Wheat Harvest
From in and about Yeo Yeo and Congou. Cootamundra district, most encouraging reports of the wheat yields are to hand. Mr. Maroney has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Stock for Java. Good Milking Cattle Wanted
Dr. L. de Blicck. Director of the Veterinary School at Buttenzorg, Java. is visiting the several Australian States inquiring into the contagious and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Homebush Stock Market. Sheep. Generally a Firmer Tone
The supply yesterday was much more moderate than on the corresponding day last week, when 56,609 sheep and lambs were penned, as compared with 40,005 head forward for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wet Sheep Trouble. a Shearer Cots Compensation
A shearers' test case was decided at Watthambool. Victoria, on Monday. A shearer, who with other men had been paid off because they refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japanese Admiral at the Wool Sales
Rear-Admiral S. Kato ami several of his staff, in mufti, attended at the Sydney wool sales yesterday afternoon and occupied a seat in the gallery, being…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Replica of Our Early Sheep. Crossing the Barbados
About seven years ago the Commissioner for Agriculture in Barbados presented the United States Department with a small flock of the native sheep of those islands, with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fat Stock Sales. Thursday, January 18. Sheep.--market Firmer
Upwards of 109 owners advised consignments, totalling 42,074 sheep, including lambs. The supply was again comprised of small drafts, only four of them numbering 1000 odd each. The rest ranged chiefly from 400 downwards…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Other Live Stock Questions Sheep on Paspalum and Clover
Stoker's Siding asks if I know of any cases where sheep have done well depastured on paspalum and clover only, and what number per acre the land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trouble Likely. Wool-sorters Want More Money
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The present rate of wages for wool-sorters is £2 5s per week, but the union has decided that after January 27 the rate shall be £3 per week. Unless advices are…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Origin of Red Fire a Famous American Wheat
The best grade of Canadian wheat is known aa "Manitoba Hard," and the story of the origin of this. wheat reads like a romance. About the year 1842…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Market Plage. Trade in Sussex-street. Maize Strong at 46. Crops on the Clarence. Next Season's Prospects. Eggs Expected to Be Dearer. Butter Weaker in London
Merchants engaged in the wholesale produce and dairy trade of the Sussex-street markets this morning experienced a busy time, business being exceedingly brisk. Eggs moved off exceptionally well owing to the decreased…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Trade with Japan. a Matter for Pastoralists
In his official report to the New South Wales Government on the Trade of Japan for 1910 Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent in the East, gives…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dairy Farmers and the Association
At a meeting of Dungog branch of the Dairy Farmers' Association, the general secretary wrote, advising that the members send answers to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dairy Farmers' Association
The Dairy Farmers' Association continues to make good progress in northern districts within the last few weeks new branches have been formed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maize as a Fodder Crop. for the Dairy Districts
The reports from several coastal district, that maize which, owing to dry weather, has failed to develop a satisfactory cob, is being utilised to feed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Trade Review. Sydney Sales Reopened. London January Sales
The position disclosed in the Sydney wool market on Monday last, when the second half of the Sydney wool season was entered upon, was distinctly satisfactory. The best features…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Market Mirror WOOL Resumption of the Sydney Sales
Naturally the feature of the week here has been the resumption of the auction sales, and as we foretold, the market has lost nothing of its strength…
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