The Wool Trade. Close of Successful Season
The clearlng-up auctions in the Sydney market this week, when all the firms of wool-solling brokers submitted catalogues aggregating 25,234 bales, brought an exceedingly…
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Furious Fires. Sweep Dominion Country Side. Heavy Losses of Sheep. Auckland
Destructive bush fires are raging at Gisborne Hawkes Bay. One fire has a front of fifteen miles. The countryside has been completely swept…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Market Cables. Wheat. London, Feb. 14, 2.5 a.m
Wheat was quiet yesterday buyers pausing after their recent activity. The market however was firm owing to drought in India,the renewal of the war and to unfavourable…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wealth in New Wheat. 20,000 Per Cent in Two Years
Mr. W. R. Elgar. a member of the Canterbury Farmers' Club, has raised a crop of wheat which realised £1060 7s 3d. without the value of the straw, from the produce of a quarter of seed which he bought two years…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Freights Quiet. Wheat From the River Plate. London, Friday, 11.55 p.m
Inquiries for Weights from Australia to-day were extremely quiet. Heavy shipments of wheat from the River Plate have caused a reaction in prices in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Agricultural & Pastoral Notes Issued under the direction of the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. J. L. Trefle) the Orchard, Fumigation. Some Causes of Failure
During the next few weeks many orchardists will be concerning themselves with the fumigation of their trees for scale pests. In an article in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Nielsen's Work. in the United States. Report to the Premier. Dry Farming Conference. Prospects for New South Wales
Mr. Nielson, who recently returned from his special mission to the United States, has submitted the following report to the Premier:— SYDNEY, 4th February, 1913.—To the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the Farmers. On the Bellingen River. The faith of the Farmers childlike and boundless. Put men on the land and build railways and then—the millenium
Papers and pamphlets arrived but too late for our meeting last Saturday in Bellingen. However, we shall make good use of them at Dorrigo next week, all being well. At our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Thick White Hope Crop of America Giants Who Have Taken on This Boxing Game—are They Champions?
If "white hopes" are not much in evidence elsewhere, there appears to be a good stock of them over in the States. We heard a good deal at different times of men like Kubiak…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Old-time Farmer
When on the modern farm one sees a man perched up comfortably enough on a seat from which he directs a team of great draught horses, which haul a multi-furrowed plough,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farmer Medal
Prior to the recent Interstate Band Contest, held on Sydney Sports Ground on January 23 to 27, Mr. Fred. Farmer, of the Grand Hotel, Rockdale, signified…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer's Revenge. Firing a Neighbor's Haystack. Wellington (N.z.)
An extraordinary act of revenge occurred at Dannevirke, where a farmer named Kershaw set fire to a haystack belonging to a neighbor named Bai and stood guard over…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australia and Dry Farming Mr. Wielsen's Report. Suggested Concessions
The Premier this morning made available Mr. Nielsen's report on the result of his inquires as Truda and Immigration Commissioner to the United States of America and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Season and Crops
COWRA, Friday. -- Harvesting operations are now completed. The season was a splendid one generally. The district will average about ten bags of wheat to the acre…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →N.s.w. Fruit Crop
A report from the superintendent of the Wentworth irrigation area is to the effect that all fruit crops on the area this season are very [?]ing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pars From All Parts Pearl Oyster Farms
It is in Japan where we find what can claim to be the only pearloyster "farm" that is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming with Explosives
In Western Canada, where one of the greatest difficulties with which settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool and Wheat
During the week ending February 15, 1621 bales of wool were despatched by rail to Sydney, as compared with 2428 last year—a decrease of 887. In the season 641,549 bales were forwarded,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Victorian Butter Factory Drivers
The Rural Workers' Union in Victoria complains that the Wages Board for butter factories appointed by the Minister for Labor, Mr. John Murray, is not to consider the case of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →British Wheat Imports
Statistics recently published by the British Board of Agriculture bear testimony to the rapidly growing importance of colonial wheat in the British market. In 1875 the wheat…
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