To Save the Crops
BATHURST, Tuesday.--Rain is badly needed throughout the Bathurst district. The whole countryside is parched, and water is becoming scarce. A god fall is needed to save the late…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1914
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Yass for Fruit. Good Crop Prospects
YOUNG, Tuesday.--Mr. W. J. Spinks, the district fruit inspector stationed at Young, has just returned from a tour of the Yass district, and speaks in glowing terms of what he saw…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Milk Standard. Should It Be Raised? Objections by Dairymen
KIAMA, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Kiama Agricultural Society's committee this afternoon Mr. H. L. Fredericks brought up the question of raising the milk standard above 3.2. He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Season, Stock and Crops
ARIAH PARK, Tuesday.--Harvesting is almost completed. About 70,000 bags of wheat have passed over tho railway weighbridge. The yield last year was 116.000 bags, and it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tariff Reform. Attitude of the Farmers. Are They Sacrificed?
LONDON, Monday Evening.--The "Westminster Gazette" is publishing correspondence alleging that the Unionist newspapers are boycotting the tariff reform propaganda, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairying Notes
The return presented at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Raymond Terrace. Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company showed the business development of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stock for State Farms
The Queensland Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Hon. J. White) contemplates the importation from Great (Britain of 10 heifers and one bull to introduce fresh blood into he…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Short Notice. "British and Colonial Dairying."
The above is the title of a rather ambitious work by G. Sutherland Thomson, F.R.S., Ed., N.D.D., B.D.F.D. The subject is a wide one, but it must be confessed that it has received…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Produce. Dairy. Weak Butter Market
The butter market was weak. It was pointed out by leading merchant, that the demand, both for local consumption and export, was practically dead, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers' Wheat Experiments. Results at Culcairn
CULCAIRN, Wednesday.--The wheat experiment plot under the supervision of Messrs. C. H. and A. Hulme, Burnley, has been harvested, and, under the most unfavorable conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Manifested
There were 720 bales of wool manifested to arrive at Darling Harbor and sub-stations yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Scours
The minimum rate fixed by the award for working at a wool scour is as follows:—Adults, 38/ per week with keep; boys between 18 and 21, 30/ per week…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Butter Business
Nothing could be more welcome than Mr. H. W. Osborne's report upon the butter export, trade. It heralds a new phase in an old fight that must have the most important…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Factories to Amalgamate
JONES ISLAND.—A conference of the two boards of directors of the Manning River Cooperative Dairy Company, and the Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Company was held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Wool Exports
The following is a return showing the number of bales of wool experted oversea from the State of New South Wales during the period from July 1 to December 31 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool Sales
In a cable message published in yesterday'a "Sun" it was inadvertently mads to appear that the first of this year's series of London wool sales had opened on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales. Sydney
Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,465 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Australasian Wool Exports
During the first half of the current wool year, according to a compilation of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., there has been an increase of 88,746 bales in the Commonwealth's wool…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Local Wool Sales
According to the same authority the wool offerings in Australasian markets during the first half of the current wool season have increased by 108,566 bales, and actual sales by…
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