The Lake Cowal Country. Good Wheat Yields
WEST WYALONG, Tuesday. -- Harvesting in this district is nearly completed. Results throughout show the excellent average of over 6 bags per acre. In the Lake Cowal district…
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Should Land be Twice Ploughed for Wheat?
The above is a question which has been frequently asked, and has by no means been always satisfactorily answered. Many farmers in the south plough twice, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slow Wheat Market. London, Tuesday, 9.55 p.m
The demand for wheat was extremely slow to-day. Merchants asked 38s per quarter c.i.f. for New South Wales new season's grain,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Wool Sales. an Animated Market. Improvement in Prices. London, Tuesday, 11.5 p.m
The first series of the London wool sales opened to-day. The offerings totalled 135,000 bales, as compared with 181,000 last year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Experiment Farm Trials. No Advantage From Second Ploughing
The practice seems to have been adopted of late by wheat farmers (writes a Cowra Correspondent) of ploughing their land twice before sowing; and some experiments conducted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Produce. Dairy. Another Featureless Market
Trade in dairy produce was again featureless on Tuesday. Butter was in good demand at 100/ per cwt. Advices from New Zealand in indicated that…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Co-operative Enterprise
The opening of three new co-operative factories on the North Coast last week brings home realisation of the wonderful growth the co-operative movement has made in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairying on the Richmond. the Channon Pioneers
With the opening of the Channon Factory last week, the North Coast Co-operative Company now has six factories in operation. The others are at Byron Bay, Lismore,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister with the Watering Can. Career of Mr. J. L. TREFLE, Ministerial Head of Irrigation Farming
AS from the first of this year, irrigation in the State enters upon a new era, and is now being administered by a Commission, of which the Ministerial head is Mr. Trefle, Minister for Agriculture and Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Intense Heat at Bathurst. Crops Suffering. Bathurst
During the past three days the weather has been exceptionally hot in Bathurst, while to-day is one of the hottest of the season. The heat recorded for the past three days…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Season and Crops
BINGARA, Tuesday. -- Numerous storms have passed over the greater part of the district since Christmas, and there is now abundance of sheep feed, and in places ample food for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Notes. "The Father of Dry Farming."
A month ago it was announced that Mr. H. W. Campbell, who in America has been styled the "father of dry farming," was to visit Australia and deliver a course of lectures. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hints to Producers. Broom Millet Crops
Within another four weeks small deliveries of the new crop of broom millet from the early areas of the far northern rivers will have begun in Sydney. Meanwhile the old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factory Amalgamation
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A conference of directors of the Warrnambool, Koroit, Garvoc, Grassmere, and Fraimingham Co-operative Butter Factory, Companies was held at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Export Trade. Butter Shipments
The following are particulars of the oversea shipments of butter from the port of Sydney from July 1 to January 11. For the sake of comparison, the figures for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney Wool Sales
Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co., Ltd., report:—Sales were resumed on the 6th inst., when good general competition prevailed at rates unchanged from the closing quotation,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wool Sales. Sydney
Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge street when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,112 bales, and the sales including private transactions,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool Sales
Mr. W. G. Deuchar has received the following cablegram from his London agent, Mr. Sturgeon:—"Prices all round are par to 5 per cent. dearer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lucerne Grazing. Sheep Injure Plants
The valuable results which have been obtained with lucerne are giving it a wide popularity with pastoralists, but many men are following a practice which tends to spoil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rush for Wheat Tonnage
Since the beginning of the month a rush has set in for steam and sail tonnage to load wheat for the U.K. or Continent, South Africa, and South…
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